The words (lyrics) to the song are used or read at commemorative ceremonies. Schools throughout Australia use the song for commemorative purposes, especially for ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day.
Over the years since the song was first recorded, it has been used for commemorative purposes across Australia by local councils, choirs, bands, RSL branches, retirement homes, military services, schools, churches, radio stations and ANZAC tributes at NRL & AFL matches. The song is also used at veteran funerals.
It is 14 years since the recording of the song (March 2001). The offical website where you can download sheet music, mp3's and order USB's that include videos for screening is at Australian War Heroes. The song's official website is a Mobile Friendly website.
Sheet music, lyrics, mp3's and backing track are available for download here Sheet music includes, full arrangement, choir, solo voice, piano, guitar (bass & electric), trumpet and drum kit.
Can you hear Australia's heroes marching?
Along with their mates, they're marching once again, in the towns and cities, across our great land.
'Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching?'is a national war memorial song and a tribute to the ANZAC spirit of mateship, courage, and sacrifice.
The song is timeless and honours the memory of those who have died in the service and defence of Australia in war. The song is popular as an ANZAC Day song and as Remembrance music.
ANZAC Day Song website created by Peter Barnes. The two soldiers war memorial monuments for the background (taken at Portland's War Memorial in Victoria) on this website and the YouTube photo still (taken at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance) you see before playing the video were taken by Peter Barnes - Also the outstretched arms photo (statue reaching out to WW1 Centenary banner in Adelaide) on the instrumental video (including the Gallipoli board with names photo taken at Adelaide's National War Memorial) and all the photos in the 'Free ANZAC Day Video - With Australian War Heroes Song' were taken by Peter Barnes. The author of the song also took all the photos on the video at the very top of the page, except the one with the diggers hat on the grave. All photos taken by Peter Barnes are natural photographs, no photoshop. The Australian War Heroes Song 'Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching? Peter Barnes - Copyright 2001 - 2015.
A total of 434 war graves marked by bronze plaques are contained in the Adelaide River War Cemetery. The burials are made up of 14 airmen of the RAF, 12 unidentified men of the British Merchant Navy; one soldier of the Canadian Army; 18 sailors, 181 soldiers and 201 airmen of the Australian Forces and seven men of the Australian Merchant Navy. The Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing honours a further 292 Servicemen and women lost to the north of Australia. The adjacent civil section contains the graves of the nine Post Office staff killed on 19 February 1942 during the bombing of Darwin, one of 63 separate occasions from that date. The civilian casualties of WW2 include those of 31 Indigenous Australians.
The new video below titled 'You never came home' is a memorial to all the Australian who died on the Western Front. The words to 'You never came home' were written by Peter Barnes. Music is Chopin's Funeral March. All photographs come from the Australian War Memorial. Nearly half of all Australians who have died in all wars, died on the Western Front from 19th July 1916 to the end of the war November 11, 1918.