I am Australian

A post specially for Lisa on all her travels around the world, Hope this doesnt make you cry too much. Its the Seekers Song which has become a bit of an Anthem down under even more so since Quantas used it in their Ad campaign.

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 landEndured 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

Im a daughter of a digger

Who sought the mother load

The girl became a women

On the long and dusty road

Im a child of the depression

I saw the good time come

Im a bushy Im a battler

I am Australian

Chorus:

We are one

but we are many

and from all the lands on earth we come

we'll share a dream

and sing with one voice

I am, you are, we are Australian

Im a teller of stories

Im a singer of songs

I am Albert Namajeraand

I paint the ghostly gums

Im Clancy on his horse

Im Ned Kelly on the run

Im the one who waltzed matilda

I am Australian

Im the hot wind from the desert

Im the black soil of the plain

Im the mountains and the valleys

Im 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

Chorus (twice)