Colin Hay

We took from nobody.

Yeah, with Ron, before Men At Work.

And we'd played the song for maybe a year before Men At Work existed.

So I know the song is a clean song.

I don't care what court or what judge says any different, you know?

You know, Greg would experiment.

We were like a jam band.

We would play for, that song originally was six or seven minutes long, and in the middle of the song, Greg would, you know, go, and he'd play it once, like through the song as a tip of the hat.

I remember, we never knew what it was.

People find that very difficult to believe, but, you know, we were potheads, you know.

We were kind of pretty much stoned at the time.

I remember Greg saying, what is that?

That sounds kind of vaguely Australian.

We never really knew what it was.

So when we came to record the song as Men At Work, the producer, Peter McKeon, at the start of the song, when we used to play the song Down Under, at the start of the song was a bass riff going... Nothing to do with the Kookaburra line, but it was a bass riff.

And he said, listen, you can't have a bass riff at the start of a song.

It's not a hook.

Play that line on the flute...

So Greg played... That's cool.

Okay.