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)
