This song holds a special place in my life. Video filmed in my hometown Oberon. My beautiful Dad was laid to rest last month and was escorted down the main street of Oberon. His last main street run. There's no change there's no pace, everything within it's place just makes it harder to believe that he wont be around. Rip Dad.
@@kindofpseudonym he may have said it quite bluntly, but he has a point. If you replace people, then you replace culture, and you replace heritage. And if you _like your culture and heritage_ then being unimpressed with and opposing such developments is entirely normal and natural.
I remember walking into a pub in Delegate, NSW. We were 2 backpackers who just wanted a drink. It was like something from a movie, the whole bar just stopped and stared in confusion at how and why we had ended up there! I met some great people and we danced to Eagles and The Boss until they introduced me to Cold Chisel. This song instantly takes me back to that night. Thank you Delegate 💜
My brother just moved away from Delegate , I’ve been in that pub a few times. His pet magpie was banned from the pub , it would fly in and steal only $50 notes from peoples wallets😂
This song nearly brings me too tears I suffered depression for 17 years and this is the song that got me through it holds special memories for me grew up in a small town with my mates. Nothing better than the mates you grew up with.
Wow you're lucky, you still got friends. My mates have all gone, don't want to know me ever since I left my hometown. My parents are dead, no kids... even my girlfriend of 6 years hates me now and wants to leave. I'm a real miserable whinging dickhead. With a dead end minimum wage job, small dick and short and ugly too haha 😂. I'm making myself laugh but I guess it's kind of true. One thing I'm thankful for is I'm a pretty happy guy, who obviously likes to poke fun at himself at times. Take care fellow Barnsy fan.
Poignant that the FC holden (late 50's) there in this classic is now only as old as a VT Commodore would be now. A song of an Australia that isn't quite the same anymore.
and all those other classic aussie muscle cars , we did have the best times what an era would love to just re live it but now its just a memory of those flame trees
This song means so much to so many. For me, the last year and a half, I drive north when I can and visit friends and family of a girl I once wanted to marry. We catch up with where we are at in life, talk about shared interests and tell stories about the girl that made us friends. The reason for that is the following. The girl and I didn't speak for way too many years then a mutual friend asked if it was okay to passed my telephone number onto her as she had asked for it. Of course it was. I was overjoyed by the prospect of speaking again. Two days later I received a call saying she was on life support with a traumatic brain injury. Covid restrictions stopped me from entering Queensland to be by her side as she had been for me when I was in a similar state 20yrs earlier. Two weeks later I had to say goodbye to her on the telephone. I take solace in knowing that our differences were no longer anything, our love of each other all those years ago was not wasted and never forgotten. ...... Number one is to find some friends to say "You're doing well After all this time you boys look just the same" Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels Settle in to play "Do you remember so and so?" Number three is never say her name ...... Often this song comes on the radio while I am driving and I can't help but want to pull over, but those flame trees.... Rest In Peace, My Friend
Eff the Governments and the torture they put people through! Your friend was one of many who were forced to such loneliness before they passed. I have a mate who's leaving this life in the very near future, only 6 Weeks ago he was diagnosed with the big C age 53. He's a strong man, army man for 12 years, but receiving such a grave prognosis really hit him hard. About the only bright side to his situation is that government isn't interfering in the name of covid anymore. He will live on in my memory. You honor your friend by remembering her, while their is life in you to remember, she lives on. Condolences my friend.
@@thepaedophileprofit3062 May we never forget it, may we never let it happen again. The impact was huge, devastating, destroyed more lives than it saved. I'm still gobsmacked by the whole thing. And I'm very sorry to hear about your friend. Same to the op. Very sad.
This song came on my late father's alarm clock 5am most mornings ❤your son Christopher love forever and forever greatful to my mother and father for raising me a proud single father ❤
I just wanted to say thank you Cold Chisel - We love you for the beautiful memories you have left in our minds. I am 61 years old now and you do wonder where the years have gone. Your music is timeless and I thank you for the pleasure of listening to your songs.
This is now 2024. I was your age back then when you posted. How lucky were we, to have such wonderful music? Cold Chisel my most favourite Aussie band. Always was, always will be.
"There's no change, There's no pace, Everything within its place just makes it harder to believe she won't be around"...This pretty much sums up my & my two sons' lives since we lost their mum 4 years ago. I love this song, ever since I heard it for the first time all those years ago and it rings truer with every listen.
Beautiful song and so iconically Australian. When Australia was a fantastic place to live,people worked hard,enjoyed a few schooners down the pub,smoked,listened to great music,swore and picked up gorgeous birds!
❤️❤️❤️ always wondered where it was filmed. I've never been to Oberon but i have driven thru it. Love our bush towns, they're way better than our coastal towns. Youse are all still uniquely Aussie where we on the Coast (I'm from Wyong) are like we've moved into a different dimension, we aren't Aussie's like we used to be & it's sad. Sending love & best wishes ❤️
Being of Scottish heritage, I'm so proud that this masterpiece is by a Scottish-Australian singer. The lyrics are flawless. Anyway, my 18 year old is now playing it on his guitar and hungry for more Cold Chisel. Their music is boundless, long live Cold Chisel! Good taste and honesty!
I don't want to sound like a party pooper, but Stephen Prestwich (Liverpool England) and Don Walker (Adelaide Australia) wrote the lyrics to this classic.
@@jonathanhalloran5350 Jimmy is Scottish, and if you ask him he'll say he's proud of his Scottish heritage. He's literally Scottish Australian and his accent remains to this day
Hello from Detroit, Michigan, my adopted hometown. For the first time in my (long) life, I'm feeling a little homesick. I'm from Sydney, but I have friends all over Australia. Thanks to RUclips and the person who uploaded this classic song. It's obvious how much this song is loved and how much it means to so many people.
Driving my lux Ute, dusty corrugated road, dog (Sherpa) in the back, me staring out at the beautiful bush as we drive back to the farm.... Absolute heaven! Rock on!
@@TechNed The Grafton reference is because Don Walker came from Grafton and supposedly wrote this song about his old hometown. Grafton is lined with Jacaranda trees and he used the title of an old movie " The flame trees of Thika" as a reference apparently. Not sure why the film clip was done in Oberon but I have always loved it.
Always an Australian Iconic Song, an old Flame or a Rural Australian Town in which an individual has spent some time in & is now a stranger but always up for the Road Trip on either 2 x Wheels or 4. That first Larger cuts the dust & bugs from the throat before settling in for the evening after a great day's Riding or Driving to just be able to pass through & appreciate the Rural Australian Pub 🇦🇺 ☝️👍🏾
I just tried to sing this and I literally couldn't get through it without bawling. I live abroad now and it just conjured so many feelings! Fucking amazing tune. The Yanks have Springsteen, We've got Cold Chisel.
Don Walker's inspiration for the lyrics was a combination of his memories of Grafton where he had lived as a youth, and of his romantic dreams. Walker later said, "In my mind, it’s a northern New South Wales song. But there’s a lot of people who love that song and in their minds, it’s set in their home towns. A lot of people finish up away from where they come from." Elsewhere, Walker noted that the song was, "not fiction", and about, "returning home after some success in the big city". The song is "not fiction". I take this to mean there was a girl in Grafton who Don Walker loved, but he had to leave because of greater career opportunities in Sydney. I wonder what happened to that girl - if she knows she has been immortalised by this song.
Lyrically beautifully thought out. The people and places may be the same, but without that person, everything will forever be different. Truly captures the feeling of love and loss and I'm proud that this belongs to Australia x
Always picture Elizabeth in South Australia in the 80s when I hear this song." Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the field in our day " that line always puts a tear in my eyes.
While rock in other parrts of the world sang about sex drugs and rock'n'roll, in Australia in the 70s, 80's and 90's the songs were also often about normal working class people dealing with everyday life issues - our struggles, laughter, loves and regrets. We could all relate to that and still do and that's why these songs have woven so tightly in our memories.
Oh God the memories that come flooding back to this song ...bloody classic aussie rock I miss the 80's in Australia They wern't just a Pub Rock Band, they were a huge part of an Australian era. And, what an era!
Followed the band from day 1 Its gotten me threw some tough times in my life and it's relevant today as it was back then Its funny how 1 song can take you back to a time and a place Music is timeless shame we aren't
For something reason.. every day I play this My Australian girl friend comes to life... perhaps I could play it at her funeral... doubt she will get out of her coffin,, but I hope it puts a smile on her face
fuckhead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! corona is here to stay! ....... grow up .............. im 60 ..............anyone who thinks this will go away has a tram up his ARSE!
Its extraordinary the feelings this song conjures up from the moment it starts. For an entire generation it will hold sentimentality, heartbreak, perhaps melancholy, of a very special time in ones life, an invincible time, thats long gone. A gorgeous piece nonetheless.
This song reminds me of growing up in Oberon when I was a young kid my great pop passed away in 2017 Zika ‘Chic’ Tosic he was a great man and founded Oberon engineering.
This is your. Best song ever Jimmy. I have read all your books. Thing same age has you. If anyone deserves happiness contentment. It’s you Jimmy rose your whole family. I love it when you all sing together. Your children. Grandkids. All my love too you all
I don’t know how Emotional I become when I listen to this song but I have that feeling that when I’ll be older I will cry like a child just by listening to this song
It's because it resonates in all of us that feeling of a life passed by and filled with nostalgia and what else could have been. Every human being will feel that in the latter part of their lives no matter what
This song reminds me of Bathurst, Orange, Molong and Cumnock and the country people I met there in the 80s. Old man in New York remembering how sweet it was beyond the Blue Mountains.
Romance,heartbreak,love,all wrapped up in melancholy...sang with some slight vitriol...so as not to offend... This could be one,if not the most, beautiful song ever written. A torrent of tears with evrey listen... Go Barnsey,Go Chisel!!!!!
I'm 24 years old, every single time I here this song i think about how my old man would've thought about this song when it first came out. for some reason it holds such a nostalgic place in my heart. i wish i could've been 24 when it came out.
This was my mum and dad's song. I remember mum telling me once when dad had to go to the states on a business trip, he played this song to her over the phone. Since then I see how special it was to them, and how special it is to Australia as a whole.
Bow River, Flame Trees and Bal a Versailles are the three best Chisel songs ever. But wait, then there is Four Walls, Forever Now, When the War is Over, Khe Sahn, Ita.... Oh, I am not going to rate them but enjoy them all. Long live Cold Chisel.
Those rich harmonies in the last chorus are the emotional boiling point of the track. Don Walker wrote so much of the bands work, but Chisel's sound was unique and each member bought so much to each track. Phil Small's Bass playing is some of the best I have heard in my 54year. I play some instruments, but most importantly have a good set of ears, and Phil is seriously worldclass. Listen to his playing on 'Saturday Night' and note how he basically plays melody in quiet spaces before returning to holding down the bottom end with Steve. What a rhythm section those two made. Power, Excitement, Creative, Genuine are words that come to mind. '1983 live 'Barking Spiders'. Listen to Steve & Phil on 'Merry Go Round' and then 'No Sense'. I could go on for hours and I haven't even got to Ian Moss, vocal, guitars, a superbly emotional blues player amongst other styles.
What an amazing song. I will always have time for this sentimental bullshit. Just brings me back to a beautiful time in Australia in my childhood when things were a lot simpler.
Can't remember if there are flame trees in Oberon, more like the Illawarra, but it's still a beautiful drive, through O'Connell, Tarana, Sodwalls etc....,
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This song holds a special place in my life. Video filmed in my hometown Oberon. My beautiful Dad was laid to rest last month and was escorted down the main street of Oberon. His last main street run. There's no change there's no pace, everything within it's place just makes it harder to believe that he wont be around. Rip Dad.
It's special to me too and made all the more special by your story. May your father RIP.
Nice Patricia May your dad rest in peace Love from Frank
Rip mate
Cheers Patricia.
Bless you
This era was the end of the greatest eras ever, australia is no more
These times will never return alas
@@jimfarmer2621 just the song itself brings back those magical memories its what i live for now hold on to the dream
@MrPizza063 it doesn't get much better than this
Mate, I have two kids that love this music. They are also musical and there is still hope for future Aussie classics.
Bah, times change, keep moving or get left behind.
Great song. Represents an era that's starting to slide into memory. Old Australia is slipping away...
@cold chisel wow it’s cold chisel….
@@SENATORPAIN1 I'd take ten times as many if it meant that I didn't have to read one more stupid thing from you.
@@SENATORPAIN1 That's not what I meant.☹️🙁
So true, so sad 😔
@@kindofpseudonym he may have said it quite bluntly, but he has a point. If you replace people, then you replace culture, and you replace heritage. And if you _like your culture and heritage_ then being unimpressed with and opposing such developments is entirely normal and natural.
Probably one of the greatest Aussie rock ballads ever written
I miss the 80's in Australia
Same.
Take me back!
The more lefty politians try to change Australia the sentimental about 80,s90,s i get!😒😮💨
It's no better now. Bring on the dream weavers and time machines.
@@anthonywilson7304 let me know when one's been invented!
This song was one of the Chisels best, you can return to your roots, home, old mates but it's never be the same second time around.
Where I’m from was the same after 5 years and I couldn’t of been happier to be here.
Too true mate. Everything changes but there's some things that never change
OMG … I wish it wasn’t true; but for me that was the case.
The first love always cuts the deepest, in all senses of the word.
Ad in suzi 😁and the Dutch up on love Keep
Probably one of the greatest Aussie rock ballads ever written
foath
My song :)
The best
everyones song
Linked park hybrid theroy
I live on Oberon now and nothing has changed since then. I love it. I just bought some flame trees for my farm. Love Chisel.
And oh, who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway?
❤🇦🇺👍
i just love those old aussie muscle cars man those were the best of times
'cept Herb's shop.
She painted the signage on it.......
They wern't just a Pub Rock Band, they were a huge part of an Australian era.
And, what an era!
My older brother had a lot of their music in the 80's..TG!
You're not wrong mate
Fuq oath mate 👍 🇦🇺
How do we get back to those days? I'd give anything. No smart phones, no f***ing Netflix.
@@surfclimbcycle nope just real people and real music wish I was around back then nowdays are fucking shit
Anyone of this era is locked in time when we hear this song. What a blessing!
Ah to have a time machine!
True story
Absolutely do it all again in a heartbeat 😊😊😊
Yep.. love ya mate ❤
I'm from Grafton NSW
Whenever I sing this at family friendly events - I always sing 'who needs those sentimental stories anyway'. Same meaning... family friendly :)
I remember walking into a pub in Delegate, NSW. We were 2 backpackers who just wanted a drink. It was like something from a movie, the whole bar just stopped and stared in confusion at how and why we had ended up there! I met some great people and we danced to Eagles and The Boss until they introduced me to Cold Chisel. This song instantly takes me back to that night. Thank you Delegate 💜
Amazing to see Delegate mentioned here. I used to live there in 1984 when this song came out !
Oh wow! If you lived there in the 80's, you probably know all of the locals that I met there! Such a small word.
Roll call 😊
My brother just moved away from Delegate , I’ve been in that pub a few times. His pet magpie was banned from the pub , it would fly in and steal only $50 notes from peoples wallets😂
Did you get married?
Yes it was a huge hit in kiwi land too. New Zealand we love Jimmy
This song never gets old 2021 and still listening to it .
Back at ya..🍻👍
On the radio all the time in Sydney 2021. Such a classic
2022 and I agree, timeless.
April 2022 ❤
Yep! 2023 and still so good. This song is one of THE classics.
This song is always gonig to make me cry happy tears cause of the vailo 500 where the whole crowd joined in in singing
Is this one of the best Australian songs ever??
That honour goes to Don't Change by INXS.
not one of the best, by far the best!
It is
@Lats Niebling What about Shark Fin Blues by The Drones.
@Lats Niebling Check it out, it's a classic.
This song nearly brings me too tears I suffered depression for 17 years and this is the song that got me through it holds special memories for me grew up in a small town with my mates. Nothing better than the mates you grew up with.
Stay strong mate, same here.
Bless...
Wow you're lucky, you still got friends. My mates have all gone, don't want to know me ever since I left my hometown. My parents are dead, no kids... even my girlfriend of 6 years hates me now and wants to leave. I'm a real miserable whinging dickhead. With a dead end minimum wage job, small dick and short and ugly too haha 😂. I'm making myself laugh but I guess it's kind of true. One thing I'm thankful for is I'm a pretty happy guy, who obviously likes to poke fun at himself at times. Take care fellow Barnsy fan.
Damn straight bro 🤟 your not alone ! This song is a go too for me when I'm down ! Also when I'm up! Keep on keeping on!🤟
My Brother was J Barnes, I’m also Born a J Barnes
Poignant that the FC holden (late 50's) there in this classic is now only as old as a VT Commodore would be now. A song of an Australia that isn't quite the same anymore.
and all those other classic aussie muscle cars , we did have the best times what an era would love to just re live it but now its just a memory of those flame trees
The anthem of most young Australians of the time.
and some Kiwis like me😂
And till this day as well. At least for 25 year old me.
Great song
I’m from Holland but how i love this song… beautiful, raw emotion. Like it even better on a sunny day with a beer in my hand.💜
An enduring song for a 76 year old /young man.
Your earning yourself an honourary Aussie status with comments like that 👍
Bravo!
You sound like you are from Holland...???
when craftsmanship transcends itself and becomes art. this song is the f*king Australian Mona Lisa. every note is perfect
This song means so much to so many.
For me, the last year and a half, I drive north when I can and visit friends and family of a girl I once wanted to marry. We catch up with where we are at in life, talk about shared interests and tell stories about the girl that made us friends. The reason for that is the following.
The girl and I didn't speak for way too many years then a mutual friend asked if it was okay to passed my telephone number onto her as she had asked for it. Of course it was. I was overjoyed by the prospect of speaking again. Two days later I received a call saying she was on life support with a traumatic brain injury. Covid restrictions stopped me from entering Queensland to be by her side as she had been for me when I was in a similar state 20yrs earlier. Two weeks later I had to say goodbye to her on the telephone. I take solace in knowing that our differences were no longer anything, our love of each other all those years ago was not wasted and never
forgotten.
......
Number one is to find some friends to say "You're doing well
After all this time you boys look just the same"
Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels
Settle in to play "Do you remember so and so?"
Number three is never say her name
......
Often this song comes on the radio while I am driving and I can't help but want to pull over, but those flame trees....
Rest In Peace, My Friend
Eff the Governments and the torture they put people through! Your friend was one of many who were forced to such loneliness before they passed. I have a mate who's leaving this life in the very near future, only 6 Weeks ago he was diagnosed with the big C age 53. He's a strong man, army man for 12 years, but receiving such a grave prognosis really hit him hard. About the only bright side to his situation is that government isn't interfering in the name of covid anymore.
He will live on in my memory. You honor your friend by remembering her, while their is life in you to remember, she lives on. Condolences my friend.
@@thepaedophileprofit3062 May we never forget it, may we never let it happen again. The impact was huge, devastating, destroyed more lives than it saved. I'm still gobsmacked by the whole thing.
And I'm very sorry to hear about your friend. Same to the op. Very sad.
This song came on my late father's alarm clock 5am most mornings ❤your son Christopher love forever and forever greatful to my mother and father for raising me a proud single father ❤
I just wanted to say thank you Cold Chisel - We love you for the beautiful memories you have left in our minds. I am 61 years old now and you do wonder where the years have gone. Your music is timeless and I thank you for the pleasure of listening to your songs.
This is now 2024. I was your age back then when you posted. How lucky were we, to have such wonderful music? Cold Chisel my most favourite Aussie band. Always was, always will be.
"There's no change, There's no pace, Everything within its place just makes it harder to believe she won't be around"...This pretty much sums up my & my two sons' lives since we lost their mum 4 years ago. I love this song, ever since I heard it for the first time all those years ago and it rings truer with every listen.
Hope have some ausome years soon to make up for it!
Beautiful song and so iconically Australian. When Australia was a fantastic place to live,people worked hard,enjoyed a few schooners down the pub,smoked,listened to great music,swore and picked up gorgeous birds!
Well I still have the gorgeous bird. Me hair has long gone tho
And no woke bs!
And probably watched the footy on the big screen!
My cousin Sheldon would love this Song rest in peace my brother
Sorry for your loss. ❤
This song was filmed in my home town and it makes me cry every single time. So much meaning. What an incredible song!
❤️❤️❤️ always wondered where it was filmed. I've never been to Oberon but i have driven thru it. Love our bush towns, they're way better than our coastal towns. Youse are all still uniquely Aussie where we on the Coast (I'm from Wyong) are like we've moved into a different dimension, we aren't Aussie's like we used to be & it's sad. Sending love & best wishes ❤️
Great song my Nan still lives near the rsl
Just made me cry also, life can be very sad sometimes 😢
Happy Australia Day 2024,great song and great video
Being of Scottish heritage, I'm so proud that this masterpiece is by a Scottish-Australian singer. The lyrics are flawless. Anyway, my 18 year old is now playing it on his guitar and hungry for more Cold Chisel. Their music is boundless, long live Cold Chisel! Good taste and honesty!
You're deluded buddy. Saying that Jimmy is Scottish is like saying that Mel Gibson is American. Or that Russel Crowe is Australian... oh wait....
I don't want to sound like a party pooper, but Stephen Prestwich (Liverpool England) and Don Walker (Adelaide Australia) wrote the lyrics to this classic.
@@jonathanhalloran5350 Jimmy is Scottish, and if you ask him he'll say he's proud of his Scottish heritage. He's literally Scottish Australian and his accent remains to this day
Love this song me @ my best friend used to this song on the Duke box years ago at out country pub luv ot😅
Me too
We had the best songwriters. And bands.
This song played as my Mum passed over. Always love Chisel
This song definitely hits differently when you live in a country town.
I didn't appreciate this wonderful song until many many years after it was released. I heard it again one day and I realized how much I love this.
Likewise
@@jipangoo same here i rate it as there Best .
Likewise, its wonderful.
The song of a generation.
3:00 the greatest key change in Australian music. Onya Steve, RIP.
Love ya chisel
Hello from Detroit, Michigan, my adopted hometown. For the first time in my (long) life, I'm feeling a little homesick. I'm from Sydney, but I have friends all over Australia. Thanks to RUclips and the person who uploaded this classic song. It's obvious how much this song is loved and how much it means to so many people.
Favourite song ever.. Australian music is the best.. especially the 70"s & 80's.. even the 90's to now.. thanks Australia 🇦🇺
That key change just lifts my head off every single time. I’ve heard it maybe, dunno, 100s of times. Same response, every time. Sensational song.
My favourite bridge. Melodically beautiful.
Driving my lux Ute, dusty corrugated road, dog (Sherpa) in the back, me staring out at the beautiful bush as we drive back to the farm.... Absolute heaven!
Rock on!
Never heard this group until now. I'm American. One of my Australian followers on tiktok recommended this group! I like it!
I’m Scottish ( but now dual Ozzie ) discovered it in the 90’s when I was an ICU nurse in Melbourne.
Now that you have heard Cold Chisel, you just need to eat Vegemite and you can be an Australian citizen.
@@giantrod788
I am an 🇦🇺 citizen & I do…. 😂
No
I'm from Oberon where this was filmed and some of the people's today in the video are still alive and living here.
AreYouKenkey my nan lives there my perants grow up there
Nice. I keep hearing Grafton but I don't recognise anything in this vid.
@@TechNed The Grafton reference is because Don Walker came from Grafton and supposedly wrote this song about his old hometown. Grafton is lined with Jacaranda trees and he used the title of an old movie " The flame trees of Thika" as a reference apparently. Not sure why the film clip was done in Oberon but I have always loved it.
@@andrewmurphy7401 Yeah, I knew that. I think you misunderstood my comment. I meant, I don't recognise any scene in this vid as Grafton.
@@andrewmurphy7401 But I'm with you. It's an awesome video. Storyteller style.
As an Aussie this song hits!
Always an Australian Iconic Song, an old Flame or a Rural Australian Town in which an individual has spent some time in & is now a stranger but always up for the Road Trip on either 2 x Wheels or 4. That first Larger cuts the dust & bugs from the throat before settling in for the evening after a great day's Riding or Driving to just be able to pass through & appreciate the Rural Australian Pub 🇦🇺 ☝️👍🏾
Is this one of the best Australian songs ever??
Ladies and gentlemen please rise for the national anthem
I just tried to sing this and I literally couldn't get through it without bawling. I live abroad now and it just conjured so many feelings! Fucking amazing tune. The Yanks have Springsteen, We've got Cold Chisel.
OzzieBarbie I'd take Chisel over Bruce any day.
Bruce is amazing too.
"Bawling"
Springsteen is horrible
@@linux49er do you know what that means?She cried her eyes out mate.
Play this driving into Grafton during mid November, pull into a pub and have a beer fella, a brilliant day it will be.
15 years after 1st hearing this I’m still loving it just as much… all the way from Glasgow/Scotland 🏴
Don Walker's inspiration for the lyrics was a combination of his memories of Grafton where he had lived as a youth, and of his romantic dreams. Walker later said, "In my mind, it’s a northern New South Wales song. But there’s a lot of people who love that song and in their minds, it’s set in their home towns. A lot of people finish up away from where they come from." Elsewhere, Walker noted that the song was, "not fiction", and about, "returning home after some success in the big city".
The song is "not fiction". I take this to mean there was a girl in Grafton who Don Walker loved, but he had to leave because of greater career opportunities in Sydney. I wonder what happened to that girl - if she knows she has been immortalised by this song.
The video is filmed in Oberon,
Which like the song, has a factory & 2 pubs…
Just saying…
Lyrically beautifully thought out. The people and places may be the same, but without that person, everything will forever be different. Truly captures the feeling of love and loss and I'm proud that this belongs to Australia x
Tinku Reddy - beautiful post
Love,love ,love Flame Trees ❤❤❤
@anna Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here
This is an ageless ballad, so well constructed, written & sung that it is incapable of becoming old.
Pure gold!
How was this song and video not a huge hit outside Australia?? 30 years and it’s still moving. Great accompanying film
It was big here in New Zealand. Still gets play on rock radio stations even.
You could say that about Chisel.
wasn't even a big hit in Australia reached 26 on the charts, Khe Sanh didn't even make top 40 absolutely amazing
I wish I could go back in time just for a little bit. Life was so simple yet so good. Loving the memories this song brings
Good on you Emma
I agree emma,get very sentimental!
Jimmy Barnes is one of the greatest singers to exist throughout mankind
Always picture Elizabeth in South Australia in the 80s when I hear this song." Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the field in our day " that line always puts a tear in my eyes.
At 52 it does the same to me, ahh the memories of being fit and fearful of nothing
Is this one of the best Australian songs ever??
The anthem of most young Australians of the time.
@carol Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here
one of the greatest examples of 1980s Australia in sound ever.
Cole chisel works perfectly when driving through west Texas!
this song is timeless, regardless of what generation you, it resonates
This song can tear your heart out
...And I can't stop that long forgotten feeling of her...
The anthem of most young Australians of the time.
always have a gut sing to this song......
I think everyone can relate to this song luv it
While rock in other parrts of the world sang about sex drugs and rock'n'roll, in Australia in the 70s, 80's and 90's the songs were also often about normal working class people dealing with everyday life issues - our struggles, laughter, loves and regrets. We could all relate to that and still do and that's why these songs have woven so tightly in our memories.
Oh God the memories that come flooding back to this song ...bloody classic aussie rock
I miss the 80's in Australia
They wern't just a Pub Rock Band, they were a huge part of an Australian era.
And, what an era!
Oh God the memories that come flooding back to this song ...bloody classic aussie rock
Followed the band from day 1 Its gotten me threw some tough times in my life and it's relevant today as it was back then Its funny how 1 song can take you back to a time and a place Music is timeless shame we aren't
For something reason.. every day I play this
My Australian girl friend comes to life... perhaps I could play it at her funeral... doubt she will get out of her coffin,, but I hope it puts a smile on her face
One of the greatest Aussie songs ever... Easily fav Chisel song...
Would love to have seen more of them in their prime in the early 80's...
When you see the flame trees in flower crabbing is good.
Can’t wait to just hang out like these people after Coronavirus passes
YES
me too
fuck covid 19, or whatever.
Same dude
fuckhead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! corona is here to stay! ....... grow up .............. im 60 ..............anyone who thinks this will go away has a tram up his ARSE!
Cool song to hang out with friends in a pub.😎
1 of my favourite songs love Jimmy
Its extraordinary the feelings this song conjures up from the moment it starts. For an entire generation it will hold sentimentality, heartbreak, perhaps melancholy, of a very special time in ones life, an invincible time, thats long gone. A gorgeous piece nonetheless.
This song reminds me of growing up in Oberon when I was a young kid my great pop passed away in 2017 Zika ‘Chic’ Tosic he was a great man and founded Oberon engineering.
The best song and video....from my childhood. Amazing!
Relatable song for ordinary people. Has a memorable beat
A lot like I remember it... nostalgic and great music...
Don Walker wrote what has become the definitive Autralian love/rock ballad. Perfect in every way.🤘🖤🤘
Don’t forget Steve’s music))
@@MRDARKTURKEY Yes, absolutely. A perfect partnership created a most beautiful song.
L. Lisa Wilson well said😊
This is your. Best song ever Jimmy. I have read all your books. Thing same age has you. If anyone deserves happiness contentment. It’s you Jimmy rose your whole family. I love it when you all sing together. Your children. Grandkids. All my love too you all
I don’t know how Emotional I become when I listen to this song but I have that feeling that when I’ll be older I will cry like a child just by listening to this song
it has a sensitivity that's free from anything sugary you get in music these days.
Maybe because we know those times won't really come around again.
It's because it resonates in all of us that feeling of a life passed by and filled with nostalgia and what else could have been. Every human being will feel that in the latter part of their lives no matter what
The video,the song the band
Superb.
One of the finest Australian bands of yesteryear and popular too.
2021… @ I’m playing i it on 🔂…
This song reminds me of Bathurst, Orange, Molong and Cumnock and the country people I met there in the 80s. Old man in New York remembering how sweet it was beyond the Blue Mountains.
Romance,heartbreak,love,all wrapped up in melancholy...sang with some slight vitriol...so as not to offend... This could be one,if not the most, beautiful song ever written. A torrent of tears with evrey listen... Go Barnsey,Go Chisel!!!!!
I'm 24 years old, every single time I here this song i think about how my old man would've thought about this song when it first came out. for some reason it holds such a nostalgic place in my heart. i wish i could've been 24 when it came out.
24 here also bro ✌️
This was my mum and dad's song. I remember mum telling me once when dad had to go to the states on a business trip, he played this song to her over the phone. Since then I see how special it was to them, and how special it is to Australia as a whole.
It's all about love man, there is nufin else, never will be , never was 💖👑💖
Bow River, Flame Trees and Bal a Versailles are the three best Chisel songs ever.
But wait, then there is Four Walls, Forever Now, When the War is Over, Khe Sahn, Ita....
Oh, I am not going to rate them but enjoy them all. Long live Cold Chisel.
Thanks to my parents, I was raised with this music and still rocking. There’s No music like this today.
Only rubbish now!
I sang this out loud driving today. It so reminds me of driving trucks.. the words, that harmony...gotta play it loud...DO YOU REMEMBER🎶
I love all the interesting folks in the video
Those rich harmonies in the last chorus are the emotional boiling point of the track. Don Walker wrote so much of the bands work, but Chisel's sound was unique and each member bought so much to each track. Phil Small's Bass playing is some of the best I have heard in my 54year. I play some instruments, but most importantly have a good set of ears, and Phil is seriously worldclass. Listen to his playing on 'Saturday Night' and note how he basically plays melody in quiet spaces before returning to holding down the bottom end with Steve. What a rhythm section those two made. Power, Excitement, Creative, Genuine are words that come to mind. '1983 live 'Barking Spiders'. Listen to Steve & Phil on 'Merry Go Round' and then 'No Sense'. I could go on for hours and I haven't even got to Ian Moss, vocal, guitars, a superbly emotional blues player amongst other styles.
An all-time favorite. Always full volume in the studio monitors.
What an amazing song. I will always have time for this sentimental bullshit. Just brings me back to a beautiful time in Australia in my childhood when things were a lot simpler.
Exactly!
The BEST 👌
@bianca Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here
Love this song. Gotta go through this town one day when they're blooming
Can't remember if there are flame trees in Oberon, more like the Illawarra, but it's still a beautiful drive, through O'Connell, Tarana, Sodwalls etc....,
love the doggies! 🐕🐕