Sammy J Has Put A Very Bleak Covid Lockdown Spin On ‘I Still Call Australia Home’
"My mate's an Aussie of Indian descent/His mum died last week, so to Mumbai he went. And it seems a bit harsh. How could he have known he'd be locked up for trying to come home?"
One of Australia’s finest satirists, Sammy J, has put his very own 2021 spin on ‘I Still Call Australia Home’, releasing a dark and poignant banger called ‘I Can’t Call Australia Home.’
Focused on the restrictions that make it nigh on impossible for Australians overseas to return home during the coronavirus crisis, the song takes the famous melody and spins it into new and increasingly dark places.
“I’ve been to cities that always lockdown,” the song begins. “Now I’m stuck overseas and my chances are blown / I can’t call Australia home.”
Later in the song, Sammy J takes aim at the hypocrisy that means tennis players, celebrities and rich athletes can move across borders without concern.
“Tried to book me a flight, but the flights have all flown … All the tennis players flying around the world, quarantining in a luxury suite. While my hope of returning is earning 10,000 bucks to secure my seat.”
Later still, Sammy J unloads on the new restrictions announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison that have made it against the law for Australians to return home from India. “My mate’s an Aussie of Indian descent/His mum died last week, so to Mumbai he went. And it seems a bit harsh. How could he have known he’d be locked up for trying to come home?”
The whole song is a banger, albeit of the darkest and most pointed sort. Watch it in full right here:
With apologies to Peter Allen. pic.twitter.com/Lkog3jKYOj
— Sammy J (@sammyjcomedian) May 6, 2021