I Am Australia

I came from the dreamtime

From the dusty red-soil plains

I am the ancient heart

The keeper of the flames

I Stood upon the rocky shore

I watched the tall ships come

For fourty thousand years I've been the first australian

I came upon the prison ships

Bound down by iron chains

I cured the land

Endured the lash

And waited for the rains

I'm a settler

I'm a farmers wife

On a dry and barron run

A convict and a free man

I became Australian

I'm a daughter of a digger

Who sought the mother load

The girl became a women

On the long and dusty road

I'm a child of the depression

I saw the good time come

I'm a bushy I'm a battler

I am australian

Chourus:

We are one

But we are many

And from all the lands on earth we come

And sing with one voice

I am, you are we are australian

I'm a teller of stories

I'm a singer of songs

I am Albert namajera

And I paint the ghostly gums

I'm clancy on his horse

I'm ned kelly on the run

I'm the one who waltzed matilda

I am australian

I'm the hot wind from the desert

I'm the black soil of the plain

I'm the mountains and the valleys

I'm the drowned and flooding rains

I am the rock

I am the sky

The rivers when they run

The spirit of this great land

I am australian

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