Watch This Ridgy-Didge Australia Day Cover Of ‘Hey Ya!’ Entitled ”Straya’

Not since Adam Hills discovered that the words to Advance Australia Fair fit remarkably well into the tune of Working Class Man has anyone put forward such a strong case for a new national anthem.

With Australia Day fast approaching and the festival of snags that comes with it, comes this absolutely tip-top, full donk, off the top shelf cover of Outkast‘s former Triple J Hottest 100 number 1 hit “Hey Ya!” reworked for all things concerned with the Antipodes and appropriately titled “Straya!
YouTube user Coach Bombay – aside from having a bang-up stage name – posted the remarkably well done song that comes replete with a video jam packed full of Aussie iconography, from backyard cricket with a wheelie bin for wickets to a gyrating Peter Garrett who appears as the lyrics start asking you to “shake it.
It’s real clever. And an infinitely better advertisement for Australia Day than Sam Kekovich spitting all over the screen as he bleats hateful bullshit about people who don’t eat lamb.
Get it indaya!

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