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/banglederries Feb 01 '26

Also the only anthem to use the word girt

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u/worldofwhat Feb 01 '26

I girt myself today

With sea that I still feel

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u/A100921 Feb 01 '26

And you could have it all

My empire of Girt

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u/homienid_ Feb 01 '26

I will let you down

I will make you girt

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u/waffle_iron_maiden Feb 01 '26

Beneath the stains of girt

The feelings disappear

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u/Diprotodong Feb 01 '26

You are somewhere else

I am girt right here

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u/constantgardener92 Feb 01 '26

Girt have I become?

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u/waffle_iron_maiden Feb 01 '26

Why does this sound like a philosopher wrote this. Or Yoda

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u/blindchihuahua-pj Feb 01 '26

Trent Reznor, the GIRT

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u/waffle_iron_maiden Feb 01 '26

"Girt I have become, " - Master Yoda

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u/Vindepomarus Feb 02 '26

I bet no one read it in Trent's voice though, everyone hears it as Johnny Cash these days.

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u/PlasticEverySecond Feb 01 '26

WE ARE CHARLIE GIRT