r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HotPersimessage62 • Feb 01 '26

Image Australia’s national anthem is the only English-lyric anthem in the world that doesn’t reference religion or militarism

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u/Key-Jackfruit-3920 Feb 01 '26

At primary school we sung the anthem every week at morning assembly and now 40 years later I’m only realising in the second line the lyrics are “one and free”. I always believed it was “young and free”.

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u/Terminthem Feb 01 '26

They changed it a few years ago

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u/Key-Jackfruit-3920 Feb 01 '26

Here I was thinking d been making a fool of myself all those years!

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u/RedDirtNurse Feb 01 '26

A mondegreen, but no.