A comedian has reworked an iconic Aussie tune to deliver a brutal blow to the Federal Government and its travel ban on overseas citizens.<\/p>\n
Comedian Sammy J, who works for the ABC, took Peter Allen’s classic tune I Still Call Australia Home <\/i>to explain the stark reality many Aussies are facing.<\/p>\n
Sammy J rewrote the lyrics and renamed the song, I Can’t Call Australia Home<\/i>.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been to cities that always lock down, from Paris to Auckland and old London town, now I’m stuck overseas and my chances are blown, I can’t call Australia home,” he sang at the piano, in the reworked song.<\/p>\n
“I moved to the UK in 2019, now I spend my days refreshing my screen … Tried to book me a flight but the flights have all flown, I can’t call Australia home.”<\/p>\n
Sammy J also referred to the vast number of celebrities and tennis players who managed to make it into Australia.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“Well I saw Zac Efron in Byron Bay, he passed me and muttered an awkward g’day, cause he knew what we knew that it’s not OK, how come he calls Australia home?”<\/p>\n
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Comedian Sammy J singing \u2018I Can\u2019t Call Australia Home\u2019. Picture: ABCSource:ABC<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In the song, Sammy J also addressed the India travel ban, that stopped any Australian citizen from trying to return home from the COVID-ravaged nation for two weeks.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Scott Morrison today confirmed the ban, which had punishments attached that included $66,000 fines or five years in prison, would end on May 15.<\/p>\n “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,” Sammy J sings.<\/p>\n “So this is how it is then, our citizens are abandoned in a dangerous place and as they struggle coping, I’m hoping, it’s not to do with the colour of their face.<\/p>\n “And someday we’ll all be together once more, when we’re sharing a cell on a cold cement floor but ’til then I’m stranded and I feel so alone, cause I can’t call Australia home.”<\/p>\ntrending in travel<\/h3>\n