Earlier this year I was up in Darwin NT from down in Katherine. We were playing in a Masters 10's Rugby tournament and had a Mixed Club dinner at a Chinese restaurant in the City at the end of Day 1. One of the Club members a polynesian and a very fine muso at that, just happened to bring his guitar and pulls it out on arrival and launches into this song . In an instant the entire banquet room, about 35 men and women belt out Khe Sahn from start to finish . Everyone knew the lyrics, it is a bloody Aussie Anthem.

@emancipateu5879

2 ай бұрын

That's cool as thanks

To All the past & present Vietnam veterans who were forgotten but finally recognised years later, and a moving song by Cold Chisel. 🎤🎵🇦🇺🙏

@mindfulness1118

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🙏🏼👏🙏🏼🌟

@usmc-veteran7316

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Gordon. Semper Fidelis from an old U.S. Marine Sergeant

@gordoncbright

Жыл бұрын

@@usmc-veteran7316 you’re welcome and thanks for your Service

@usmc-veteran7316

Жыл бұрын

​@Gordon C Bright you are welcome. As you know there was No parades for America Vietnam Veterans back in 1973. Semper Fi

@SuperMaraki21

4 ай бұрын

Seriously...what?😡🤡

Thank you, Australia. From Texas.

@nicholassherwin4292

3 ай бұрын

No worries tiger

@margathea7072

2 ай бұрын

No bloody worries mate ...enjoy!

Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

@Andrew98689

Жыл бұрын

Hi there

@TheAussiepamela

Жыл бұрын

@@Andrew98689 Hi Andrew, My brother is a Vietnam vet with PTSD. He's met John Schumman. Khe Sanh always makes me cry.

@Andrew98689

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAussiepamela oh really , so how are you doing

@Andrew98689

Жыл бұрын

Where are you from

@TheAussiepamela

Жыл бұрын

Originally from Newcastle, Australia but now living in Lincolnshire, UK. You?

I just heard an INXS song on the radio. Good times. I did a search on jimmy barnes and this came up. My time was in Afghanistan and this song still spoke to this old canadian vet. Aussie aussie aussie.

Don Walker deserves so much more credit than he gets, Australia's greatest songwriter

@bwana-ma-coo-bah425

Жыл бұрын

never going to happen they are more interested in the shit Delta and Guy write. Dons work is far too intellectual for mainstream.

@shaytrueblueaussie

10 ай бұрын

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425Shitty music sells well these days. Awful.

@robertdegraaf8708

9 ай бұрын

Paul Kelly and Nick Cave enter the chat.

It’s not an Aussie party until this song plays at the end of the night

@grayh7529

6 ай бұрын

This and "I was only 19" 🇦🇺

@711ROWDY

Ай бұрын

Guess my party is ending... F#$K the neighbours they can listen to it too

when I was eighteen a beautiful australian girlfriend introduced me to cold chisel,her favourite joke was hey roo why do aussie guys come so quickly ?because they want to get down the pub and tell their mates,Liane Fryer if you're still alive I'm sorry missed the last plane out of sydney,biggest regret of my life.50 years old now.

@cringlez1096

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yeowiepower aww man you got me all in my feels bro

@ranceboreham6984

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, on here under my son's name but I went to school with Liane Fryer and there would only be one of her. Last I heard a few years ago she was living in Northern NSW around Dorrigo. You might find her on Linked In. We are no longer in contact - school friendships can become complicated. Australia is a beautiful country.

@redrup1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@ranceboreham6984 yes my friend there is only one liane friar and you are right she worked at a yoga retreat in nsw she was a physiotherapist when i knew her,she got pregnant with me in 1989 in london england had an abortion and left in the middle of the night,i called her mother in 2000 because i was in sydney working on olympics,i called her she screamed at me for two hours lol,she must be 60 now?god love her i was young and stupid best woman ive ever loved.

@redrup1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yeowiepower you are very sweet thank you,i did make it out there in 2000 i worked on the olympics lived in darling harbour, connected with liane,she was still mad ten years later lol.i love australia,a year after liane left i moved to canada,still there but never found love like that ever again.

@redrup1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yeowiepower i did have a prosperous life thank you joel, i have two beautiful daughters and have had a successful career but love like that has eluded me.

Khe Sanh is 165km from my house. Came there many times with travelers, the land has been relived. The local here gets warm hearts.

I JOINED YHE ARMY MAY 75 19 YEARS OLD. LITTLE DID I KNOW THE DRILL SARGENT WERE VEITNAM VETS. MY HAT GOES OUT TO THE BRAVE ME AMERICA SENT TO THIS STRANG COUNTRY. IT CHANGED AMERICA FOR EVER. THANKS FOR THE PROUD SOLDERES OF AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 💙 🙌

It's so weird being a US Air Force vet and this Australian Vietnam era song hits closer to home than any of popular the US war songs.

@johndrum6613

6 жыл бұрын

The whole family of Don Walker are prize winning novelists and poets. He himself is aPhD in Physics. There would never be anyway that a corporation or popular paradigm would dictate the construction of lyrics and music of this individual. Totally individual. Also, at the time there was a whole gut wrenching movement in Australia to accept that the VETs were not evil. They were screwed by the times in which they lived. The whole thing played was out in stinking sweaty bars and student unions across the country. It could not survive all that without the credibility to which I think you refer.

@ruthboykin9873

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service! I was a WAC 64-65. Noble Army Hospital, Ft McClellan Al

@Carrscreekcritter

5 жыл бұрын

@@johndrum6613 Living here at the creek were he lent to play the piano and now hear the local stories of them wow that is great

@ben-vf

5 жыл бұрын

Respect.

@xxMrBaldyxx

5 жыл бұрын

@Eric Fapton a childish attempt at an insult

Every Aussie loves Cold Chisel & Barnsy 👍👍🇭🇲🇭🇲

Hell Yea!! Even us kiwis get stuck into it when this song comes on.. We do respect great Australian songs👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

@geoffreid88

3 жыл бұрын

Barnsey is a hero in nz

@CallumTalksTech

3 жыл бұрын

A true Anzac, nothing respect across the ditch

@saturdaybeavers4415

2 жыл бұрын

And vice-versa! Some great music from Aotearoa.

@peterfromgw4615

2 жыл бұрын

Mate, you Kiwis were with us in South Vietnam…..

@craigjohn3524

Жыл бұрын

Great to know our anzac brothers love barnsey.but there is talent in new Zealand too.😉

I served at Khe Sanh in the spring of 1968, it was a hotly contested piece of real estate, many Marines, Air Force, Army and Navy personal were killed and wounded there, I love the song, it tells a story of all of us returning

@jmtsicfav

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story much respect to veterans from Australia

@samcocking6934

9 жыл бұрын

brad todd everyone who served in vietnam should be remembered, YES even the Vietnameese, they have feelings to too

@j8kharr1s

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.. Can you tell me anything more about it?

@bewmdogg

7 жыл бұрын

he can't because he's a fucking filthy liar

@billsmith6884

7 жыл бұрын

So you know everything do you mate?

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them

@peterrobinson9099

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Power lest we forget

@ryanmerlino1003

5 жыл бұрын

LEST WE FORGET.

@roscosorbs5779

5 жыл бұрын

help us to forget

@raadyusuf6763

5 жыл бұрын

Lest We Forget

@DarkDreamsAndMoonlitNights

5 жыл бұрын

Lest we forget.

Never heard of this band until yesterday as they aren't a household name in the UK, got to say this song and bow river absolutely blew me away!!! Instant love!

@avengernemesis7990

4 жыл бұрын

George Haynes.. Aussie music is just great! 👋👋

@georgeibrahim7945

4 жыл бұрын

Have you heard of John Farnham, check him out singing the Beatles song “Help” live with MSO

@georgehaynes394

4 жыл бұрын

Yes John Farnham did the voice song didn't he , he's got a good voice, I'll listen to that cheers

@georgeibrahim7945

4 жыл бұрын

George Haynes yeah that’s right he was never big overseas, look at this version of him singing help on his whispering jack tour I think in 1987 in Melbourne. His vocals for singing the song “Help” are awesome and look at the crowd how they interact with him. He himself also sings a song with Jimmy Barnes the member from cold chisel in a duet another song worth checking out “when something is wrong with my baby”

@rupertgrech7097

3 жыл бұрын

Great era of Aussie music kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmujvKp9l7PPodI.html

The US just pulled out of Afghanistan. Feels right to pay my respects for all those who died fighting doomed foreign civil wars for another people by listening to a song that so clearly depicts the struggle of those who served at arguably the most famous of these conflicts. My prayers go to the people of Afghanistan, that they may find a way to flee the Taliban and retake their homeland. May god/Allah bless you and give you strength.

@dfgmetal3624

2 жыл бұрын

The Taliban Have already taken over again Afghanistan is doomed

@Kalani_Saiko

2 жыл бұрын

@@dfgmetal3624 It is devastating

@sindupetterson4703

2 жыл бұрын

The waederer s

@dulinh5257

2 жыл бұрын

Love your saying but here I have a few things to say. For the first and foremost, the Vietnam War is NOT a civil war. There is NO reason making sense when an imperialist country set fire in a half-Earth way country with “peace purposes”. Second, although the world calls it “The Vietnam War”, we Vietnamese call it “The Anti-American Resistance War”. Lastly, Vietnam won over America. People keep saying that America won because they just made the tactical retreat, or America has less asualties than Vietnam. Following that kind of argument, the Nazi would have won the two World Wars because they had less casualties. In a war, both sides set their ultimate goal. Whichever side cannot claim their goal, they lose. We Vietnamese reclaim the country, we won.

@guyturnbull1308

2 жыл бұрын

@@dulinh5257 Glad to have stumbled by this comment. Thank you. Never have really in depth studied what the Vietnam war was about, but with recent Afghanistan developments, nothing appears to be the way it was framed. 20 years in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban just so they can take it back? Logical answer would be that it was never about the Taliban. And with Taliban removed was the the government much better? Reading about Benghazi boys, or whatever, which Governement didn't oppose, yet Taliban does...I'm not a Taliban sympathist but the middle east culture is in total conflict with western culture. 9/11. 2 planes. 3 buildings. Still stinks to high heaven to me.

My dad told me once that when he was over in Scotland he was in a pub. He was drunk, so he got up and chose this song for karaoke. He then announced that '"any Australians who know this song, stand up and sing it with me". Apparently half the pub stood up and started singing this song. Shit I love Australia!

@kellyrussell190

8 жыл бұрын

MiniMattMan123 I wanna do that now!

@brucedonnellan5564

6 жыл бұрын

Kelly Russell .Any time , anywhere it is played, the crowd get into it.

@maudemaxwell1923

6 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@itzzezit2174

6 жыл бұрын

MiniMattMan123 fucking hell thanks mate I’m an Aussie down here in Kalgoorlie

@margaretbermingham1518

6 жыл бұрын

what an honor to be in my 20's and having all this amazing music!

Grandson of an ANZAC. May Our Aussie Cousins live as long as our Memories, in ours. In Aeternal gratitude, and Fraternity; Kind and Respectful Regards, Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@cefloach9019

3 жыл бұрын

love to the ANZACs for carrying us for several wars. Kind and Respectful Regards from across the Pacific, Ander, CA, USA

@uyraellsensenmann8931

3 жыл бұрын

@@cefloach9019 : I am reminded of the young Volunteers of 2nd Division, USMC, who arrived in my home city, Wellington, New Zealand, during May of 1942. Many were only 18 or 19, and the bulk of their junior officers were in their mid 20's, or younger. If any 'carrying' was done; and not for one moment do I doubt that such was-so; Believe Me, Friend, it was on all 3 sides: Americans, Aussies, New Zealanders. ALLIES we were and remain, all 3 Nations; regardless of the various doings of the rapidly declining UK. Kind and Respectful Regards CEF Loach, Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@victorwaddell6530

3 жыл бұрын

Thank You for allowing our submarines to replish in your ports during WW2 . From a US Navy vet .

@uyraellsensenmann8931

3 жыл бұрын

@@victorwaddell6530 Good sir! Without your aid, there-might never have been an place from-which to replenish. IN ALLIED Fraternity, Kind and Respectful Regards, Sir; Uyraell, Wgtn, NZ.

@jurgschupbach3059

2 ай бұрын

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Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!!

@illuwe

4 жыл бұрын

He's an amazing man, and there is not a doubt in my soul he will be back stronger than ever.

@PUMA4LIFE101

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching whittake but I have known Izzy for years in NZ. Glas izzy won but did feel sorry for whittaker

@GM-qg7zb

4 жыл бұрын

The scary part is that he is just 28 he can be a champion again if he wants to

@BuR70N

4 жыл бұрын

He'll be back

All rise for the national anthem. Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

This song is beyond Brilliant! Not only does it poetically portray and honour the Australian Viet Vet; but it documents Australia's position on the periphery of Asia in the 20th century better and more skillfully than any academic or cultural historian ever has...

The unofficial Australian national anthem. All rise for the national anthem. Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! Classic Australian song dedicated to our (mostly) forgotten Vietnam vets. Lest we forget.

R.i.p to all the indigenous brothers who lost there lives in the war. my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

@daroachdoggjr1069

4 жыл бұрын

Was your grandad an American going into Vietnam?

@mistersmarteleimon1500

4 жыл бұрын

@@daroachdoggjr1069 There were Australians in Nam too iirc

@daroachdoggjr1069

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I’m aware, but I’m American; and I respect all who went into that war.

@daroachdoggjr1069

4 жыл бұрын

@It’s ya boy yes, I'm american and here in america we teach about our wars, in 8th grade we did a vold war unit focusibgbon Vietnam and Korea.

@sonofportsmith4435

4 жыл бұрын

It’s ya boy stop putting words in his mouth, he said he knew there were other countries

I wish as a Vietnam Vet 70 to 71, that we had the commaderie that you seem to have..

These guys were/are absolute timeless legends, such a shame they never blew up outside of Australia as much as they should have. One of the greatest bands period if you ask me. Their music will be played many more generations. Underrated.

@bunnykins8301

7 ай бұрын

That's 100% spot on a very underrated band

After a long flight from an overseas holiday. Hearing this on a flight on the way home on an overseas holiday. Nearly broke down in tears. Gives you chills.

Even though this is a Vietnam war song I think anyone who has served in any military around the world can somewhat relate to this song in some way, shape or form. I dont have PTSD or severe issues but Ever since I've left the army I've felt I have lost my purpose in life drifting from place to place never feeling like I belong anywhere.

@aljohnson3010

6 жыл бұрын

you and me mate

@andrewhansen1299

5 жыл бұрын

Left the Army many years ago, hold down a steady job, am pretty normal in most respects...still drifting.

@jasonwilson2763

2 жыл бұрын

God bless mate.

@jamesmcdermott9275

2 жыл бұрын

My step dad who was a ww2 vet told me that he never felt more at home than when he was in the English army. He taught me about cleanliness and organisation when I was 10 years old.

@motown1643

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you found meaning mate. Thank you for your service❤️

Cheap wine and a chiko roll

Love it...true Australiana...

@chrismartinofficial_

Жыл бұрын

@Sharon 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸💖

I'm from a city called "Kesan" in Turkey. One day while i was playing in a bar with my band, some Aussie guys came to listen to music and one of them told me about this song. Since then, I started to listen this song almost everyday.

@bayleamussen694

6 жыл бұрын

Hüseyin Topçu Aussie Music ❤️

@indrazable

5 жыл бұрын

well.. what a coincident..'Kesan' in Turkey..'Khe Sanh' in Vietnam :)

@anthonykane1250

5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff mate..

@wadeluxon3588

5 жыл бұрын

Good on you you have great taste

@ben-vf

5 жыл бұрын

Australia now has a special bond with Turkey. We are now bonded as brothers.(and sisters) Not so much the English.

Not sure why, but I cried listening to this

I just want to say that this song, as well as being the most well known pub anthem in Australia's history has special meaning to me. I came to Vietnam for a ten day holiday and four years later I live in Saigon and am married to a local. I used to listen to this song every day to give me a taste of back home, but now I use it to empathise with the feeling of living your life out-of-step... aching for something different from what you came from but not really sure how to fulfil it because you never truly fit in anywhere. I took a road trip out to Khe Sanh and everyone asked "Why would you go there ? It's in the middle of nowhere and there's nothing there". I just explained that Khe Sanh was the most well known song in Australia and a place of important significance because of this. They were right. The town is tiny and run down, the war memorial is overgrown with weeds and untended. But I still got my photo of myself standing beside a road sign that said "Khe Sanh 1km" just outside the entrance to town. Priceless.

@znicholas145

9 жыл бұрын

Good onya, bud.

@morsul86

9 жыл бұрын

Well said mate. You may be in another country but you know Australia is still with you. Hope you find what you're looking for.

@jbfrodsham

9 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. I am the same as you, I play this song all the time. I have lived here in VN for 4 years and married to a local. I live in Bien Hoa and watch fighter jets from my flat roof taking off and landing on the old US/Aus air base. We should catch up :-)

@GoTfan-eb8tk

8 жыл бұрын

+J Frodsham I performed this song at a school talent show 2 years ago. I remember all the teachers were jumping up down with excitement simply because a 16-year-old knew the song!

@Blackstock123

7 жыл бұрын

my story isn't anywhere near as close to yours but I share similar sentiments, kiwi born but grew up in aussie I am now back in NZ but love both countries but I truly miss Australia and the aussie culture hence why I listen to such songs.

Vietnam: I wasn't there, I didn't have to go. But I emigrated here, and I now live in Australia and this country has been very good to me. I won't tolerate bullshit about the guys who were sent to serve. Read and understand the history and the conflict. In my mind, this piece of music encapsulates the Australian/Vietnamese experience.

@mins2memories

2 жыл бұрын

totally relatable, as I write from Viet Nam. thanks for sharing.

those 800 people who disliked, shame on you my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014 Why do we teach Shakespeare but not this in English classes?

I was born in Scotland it’s my favourite song

God bless Cold Chisel and the Song Writing by Don Walker...xoxoxox All rise for the national anthem.

The Aussie version of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

It's sad. The Vietnam veterans had to go through so much, had to endure horrors that no human would ever wish upon their worst enemy in their lifetime, and were welcomed back home by abuse and neglect. We respect you, V Day heroes! We are thankful for your service!

@akhan3682

8 жыл бұрын

Alysia Ciottarello I believe the Vietnamese had it slightly worse (or maybe not?!)

@adznz11

8 жыл бұрын

+moustachio cowboy They did. They had been at war for generations. We only remember the war we where involved in. Before us they had the french, Chinese and so on and so on. After the U.S lead invasion was fended off they finally had peace and an unoccupied country. Vietnam today is doing really well and is probably on of the fastest growing economy's in the world. What the west failed to admit was that communism was good for them it bound them together. Ironically in some ways though while America actually lost the war itself they kind of won the cultural battle. The introduction of western ideas really stuck with the people and today is as or even more capitalistic than alot of European country's today. Alot would say it was an entirely pointless war and in someway's that's true but i don't think Vietnam would be the country it is today Without the American influence it was exposed to during the war. The Vietnamese are an amazingly tough and resourceful people that only generations of real hardship can produce. I have alot of respect for them and they have one of the oldest cultures in the world a little known fact. Its a shame everyone's had a go at them. But it has made them what they are today. New Zealand was there to but today we have a good relationship with Vietnam as does Australia and America it speaks alot about their character as they are able to put things behind them and just get on with it. Admirable people.

@Rajj854

8 жыл бұрын

yep, they really suffered. its so stressful bombing rice fields and thatched huts in some yellow country. those vets were the real victims. lets all not lose sight of that.

@adznz11

8 жыл бұрын

No not saying they didn't as tough as it was for them i would venture to say they veit cong suffered more. The body count alone is glaring proof then you factor in the hardships they fought under. There was no medical fields. No dust off waiting for them to go to a warm beds with hot food. No air defence. Often only a little bag of rice to keep them going for days. Even the Vets them selves will tell you the cong where tougher than old boots. But at the end of the day they had one comfort the allies never had in that war. They really where fighting for their country. They believed in what they where doing. And i think the lack of that on the allies part (particularly for the conscripts) only compounded psychological war that the Vets suffered under. In the end there is no such thing as a good war but this one was particularly ugly for both sides.

@Rajj854

8 жыл бұрын

+adznz11 Absolutely. I was just being sarcastic

This is one of the greatest songs ever made. 80's/70's music will forever be the best

one of the best anti-war songs ever my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014 those 800 people who disliked, shame on you

@reginaldwooster235

9 ай бұрын

The best anti-war songs always respect veterans.

The next train out of Sydney has almost gone

I haven't heard this song since I feel in love with a beautiful Aussie woman almost 20 years ago. Lisa, you were everything to me. I pray you're doing well and happy.

@GoldCoast85

11 ай бұрын

🧡

My dad used to play this song every sunday morning. Ever so often I listen and think of him

I’m still here wondering why we don’t learn about Australian involvement in Vietnam at school. Here’s to all the vets 🍻

@callumtaggart9392

3 жыл бұрын

In NSW I did a whole term on it in year 9 back in 2005

@crispchaos4416

3 жыл бұрын

🍺🍻🍺

@andoo500

3 жыл бұрын

I learnt about it in year 5 or 6 around 2010 for a whole term

@managerialelitetoaster3456

3 жыл бұрын

Don't learn much about the New Guinea or Borneo campaign in WW2 either.

@kakattack9618

3 жыл бұрын

Don't learn shit about the Malayan Emergency either, it's because there wars they are ashamed of because Australia and our allies had no reason to get involved in it and we were absolutely hammered in both wars.

I'm only 26 years old and I'm a new Zealander and totally in love with this song

@seanh4841

7 ай бұрын

Kia Kaha my bro

Took the last plane outta Sydney in 2017 and wish every day I never left.

The last plane out of Sydney has been almost gone for about 40 years ! Australia’s blue collar national anthem.

We lost 18 USMC MARINES one day in battle, I was with them when it happened, the lyrics stating "I left my heart to the sappers around Khe Sanh" is real.

I respect there time I Scotland totally

I play this for two of my Vietnam vet pals. All these years and they’re still damage cases, I suppose we all are.

Me and my Regiment loved this song, seeming most of us were Sappers. Thanks Chisel!

As a Son of a Vietnam veteran,1964-65, who was still "technically" an Advisor to the ARVN's I thought I knew all of the songs about that terrible war. Figures, 1978 was still years away from MTV, and I doubt it highly they would have even played it. Much respect to the Australians, South Koreans, and other allied nations that slugged it out in a place that none of us should have even been there in the first place.

This song screams AUSTRALIA !!! ❣️🇦🇺

We don't need patriotism, wealth or a thousand years of history, all we need is some good rock and that Aussie mate-ship found nowhere else in the world. I love you Australia

Friday nights in Melbourne used to be beers, footy, racing tips, beers and at some point Khe Sanh

@Imbrokeaswell

Жыл бұрын

No it's just violence and police.

There were no VDay heros in 1973 This hits fkn hard

@usmc-veteran7316

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you are 100% correct. Thanks to the Australian who fought in Vietnam, before 1973. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine Sergeant. BTW I still like the song.

I took that last plane outta Sydney in 2012....I miss Australia a lot...

@johncalabria1607

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m with you mate, it’s been three years now, coming home in December. First time I’ll be stepping on Australian since joining the US Military

@jasmineisaac4130

5 жыл бұрын

It ain't that special

@mokeymadness12

5 жыл бұрын

Always welcome back home brothers ❤🇦🇺

@k-leb4671

3 жыл бұрын

@@johncalabria1607 Wait, Australians can join the US military?

@johncalabria1607

3 жыл бұрын

@@k-leb4671 You have to be either a green card holder or a US citizen. I was naturalized through my father, who is a US citizen through marriage

Hethi yoour🍻💪🏾All the way 2023 heading 2024 Love you always Godfather ❤💯

You're a legend Mossy, I remember when you came to Adelaide from Alice, to Marion High School and You guys, Cold Chisel won Battle of the Bands! Those were great times.

@usmc-veteran7316

Жыл бұрын

Great song. So glad you all celebrated the end of the Vietnam War. In January 1973, when the War ended. No parades, no celebration, here in the United States. Thanks to all who were involved in this song. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine Sergeant.

this is the aussiest of aussiest songs ever produced.

@arlionheart9744

7 жыл бұрын

except these days HONG KONG would be replaced with BALI.

@tamsyn884

7 жыл бұрын

ARLionheart idk down under is a pretty aussie song

@sub-nautical_chill4379

5 жыл бұрын

ARLionheart Nah I dont want to come back and flood my dunny with puke...

Love it! Any Australian of my age knows these lyrics before the national anthem. I remember being in a pub (The Ship Inn) at Expo 88 and started singing it with my mates. Every Aussie in the place joined in and the tourists loved it............. or maybe I was just drunk and remembered irt that way.

No song today with lyrics like this!

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh” - Jimmy Barnes This line makes me tear up every time

I'm a veteran from Malvinas (Falkland) war and after 38 years I will be returning to the island to pay respect to my fallen comrades. I'm argentinian living now in Brisbane and this song has been one I had listened over and over again..... now when I finally I'm closing the circle as Veteran coming back to the place I fought a bloody war...not being sure if it will be kinda healing time I can't help to remember this part of the song "I've been back to southeast Asia (Malvinas/South Atlantic for me)....and the answer sure ain't there......"...(even "and when the last plane out of Sydney almost gone...makes me remember those few times I lost the plane from Sydney to Brisbane....... bloody hell mate!! LOL)

@nathanmooney1617

3 жыл бұрын

Add me on fb Nathan oner would love to pick your brain abit. In Brisbane also. Cheers

@Ggdivhjkjl

2 жыл бұрын

Given the time stamp on your post, hope they let you go mate.

@MichaelRoosendaal

Жыл бұрын

..You're being understood, Compadre..

@bigears4014

Жыл бұрын

The lyrics are real when you can read them , the torment of war on the brain

This was my dad favourite song I played this song at his funeral a couple of years ago I bet now he’s kicking back having a beer watching over me

@sisenorrr

3 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss. I’m sure he’s always watching over you mate, stay strong 💪🏼

This song reminds me of my grandfather miss you pop love ya ice cream xxx

I met an old Vietnam Vet the other day, he had some stories to tell, and I could listen all day, thankyou to those who have served and are currently serving in the armed forces

never heard this until i started working my first job in Australia (british born moved to Australia this year)... love this!!

Happy Australia day 2023

Bobby will be back The unofficial Australian national anthem. I took that last plane outta Sydney in 2012....I miss Australia a lot...

Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! All rise for the national anthem.

God bless everyone who has ever served, know it will never go unnoticed by most of us, we love you.

The dislikes are the Americans trying to like the video

Just left the memorial at hide park Sydney and took a few beautiful photos especially of of the their clothes blades compass and the nurses outfits and boots with Vietnam mud on them took a photo of the flame and looked at the photo and the flame is a dove thay used them back then we love yous soldier's and THANK YOUS SO MUCH one last thing HOORAAAAHHH

@chrismartinofficial_

Жыл бұрын

@vanessa 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸💖

On of my mates told me about when his family was on holidays in America and another Australian at the bar got up and started playing this. He claims like 30 of the people in that pub were able to sing the entire song. Pretty cool

Never realised how dark this song was My parents listen to this all the time and I never get tired of a bit of Cold Chisel its nice!

[29 July 2020]: A poignant and beautiful song. A gritty heartfelt voice-of-the-forgotten-veteran folk song; right up there with John Prine's "Sam Stone" (which also tells the story of a Vietnam vet). All of my love to Don Walker, for writing the lyrics, and to Jimmy Barnes for singing them.

@jasonwilson2763

2 жыл бұрын

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda also a sad but lovely song about Aussies in WW1.

💙 FLYHIGHINLOVEANDSTRENGHT

Jest rok 1993. Moja pierwsza wizyta w AU 🇭🇲. I w radio słyszę ! Cold Chisel!! Piękna muza ! Wtedy też byłem na grobie BON SCOTT. W port Fremantl West Australia 👍🇭🇲🇵🇱👍🎸🎸

My next door neighoubr is a ww2 vet I see him shake and struggle but I can help but thank him for his service and lend a hand like him and many more before may all our troops past and present R.I.P when their final service is done ❤❤💯

This should be the Australian national anthem

A moment of Silence to those who can't find this song!!!

I just recently did a border run and drove through Khe Sanh 3 times. Its a beautiful mountain drive close to Vietnam Laos border but its super small. It felt very special being an aussie growing up with this song and seeing this town. Wow the hotel reviews are quite bad. They have a war monument as you drive through. Such hard times for all involved god bless both sides and especially Vietnam for always fighting off everyone who tried to take this special land away from them

Respect to all Vietnam vets who were treated with so much disrespect when they returned by people who had no idea what they had endured. You are true heroes. This song is for you.

@obiwankenobi3375

Жыл бұрын

I had a family member who was disrepcted but most of my family but fuck he was a hero to me

@carolinegodden4364

Жыл бұрын

@@obiwankenobi3375 GREATNESS 🥉 💋 🌟 🐦 🕊 🌌

@ducvu6377

Жыл бұрын

Iam Vietnamese, the invaders who killed children, many people in my country are heros? Shit for them, idot

@izackscally6406

Жыл бұрын

So much respect bro… losing people I care about because of said war when I was too young to understand makes me even more angry now I know what they went through… the poor cunts

@Liloldliz

Жыл бұрын

they were drafted, we have to make sure conscription never comes back. it ruined so many lives

I have the absolute pleasure to work for Open Arms and I hear the stories of veterans and counsel them through their PTSD. Thank you to all veterans past, present and future. You are brave, and heroic in my eyes. Thank you Cold Chisel for immortalizing the plight of our Vietnam Vets.

@Onceuponastreet

2 жыл бұрын

As the daughter of a vietnam Veteran - your service is open to me also. For that I thank you for your ongoing support. Especially with now what is happening in Afganistan. I appreciate hearing that the staff truly love doing their job ❤️

Robert Whitaker should have won the fight based on this song recommendation alone. Amazing.

@_timetravels4528

4 жыл бұрын

His entrance was so good imo.. but got shined on I guess.

@jordymagro7426

4 жыл бұрын

Caleb Howard fuck Whitaker his shit. Stylebender baby 😍

@iroamroyalkhan1628

4 жыл бұрын

it was pretty much nz vs nigeria 😂

@sherlockholmes1876

4 жыл бұрын

iROAM rOYAL kHAN accept Whittaker is Australian as he’s said multiple times 🤦‍♂️

@HKSMan05

4 жыл бұрын

@@jordymagro7426 the biggest fuckboi in ufc... jesus I'd even shake cejudos hand but still spit at adesanya hes a fucking embarrassment to NZ

In my life I've "travelled round the world from year to year". I took "the last plane out of Sydney" to go to Hong Kong on 14th January 2009. "Another seven flying hours and be landing in Hong Kong". This is a song that I can relate to abit :) x

@jarrahbeattie2795

9 жыл бұрын

Ainsley Carter You don't know the true meaning.

Im American had 3 uncles serve in Vietnam, 2 came back alive. I was too young at the time to understand bit as I got older I got it.Thanks for your service Austrailia and I love this song...

my grandad was in nam he loved this song rip 1952-2014

@brandilee4056

8 жыл бұрын

Respect brotha

@darlingharbourmassage370

8 жыл бұрын

The politicians were to blame...not the viet nam people...show the liberals how you feel in 2016

@ellwaugh8796

7 жыл бұрын

Liberal4life

@bewmdogg

7 жыл бұрын

his birthday doesn't really work out liar.

@camb6017

7 жыл бұрын

how does his birthday not work out? The war finished when his grandad was 23 mate, dont be a fuckwit and do the math before jumping to conclusions and being disrespectful

Always a die hard Bobby Knuckes fan. Win or lose!!!! those 800 people who disliked, shame on you

Thanks mate👍🎵

I’m ex JGSDF (Japanese army) and was first introduced to this song by the ADF when they came to Japan for orient shield. It seems like a universal theme song for veterans 💯🤙🏽

My grandfather fought in Nam RIP Ray

I have suffered from PTSD for a long time; and when it threatened to overwhelm me, I would play this song. Especially the line "And it's really got me worried: I'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurry!" would then press the right button.

Barnsey! My two boys when they were only months old, they love sleeping with your songs! I remember my 4 yr old now, was singing Forever Now haha! Now my 4 months old is loving your music playing in our lounge room tv with very loud volume haha!! They love Cold Chisel songs, made them having a good sleep!!! 😂😂😂👏👏👏😍😍😍

I just wanted to say thank you for all those awesome songs over the years.. I can not think of a greater Australian band than Cold Chisel..

To all the boys that fought in Angola God bless you all.

God bless America

This song is not about serving, it's about PTSD (before we even had a definition for it), and not relating to the country they came from when they returned. It's still a massive issue for today's military.