Seekers - I Am Australia Lyrics
I came from the dreamtimeFrom the dusty red-soil plainsI am the ancient heartThe keeper of the flamesI stood upon the rocky shoreI watched the tall ships comeFor forty thousand years I've been, the first AustralianI came upon the prison shipsBound down by iron chainsI cured the landEndured the lashAnd waited for the rainsI'm a settlerI'm a farmers wifeOn a dry and barren runA convict and a free manI became AustralianI'm a daughter of a diggerWho sought the mother lodeThe girl became a womenOn the long and dusty roadI'm a child of the depressionI saw the good time comeI'm a bushy, I'm a battlerI am AustralianChourus:We are oneBut we are manyAnd from all the lands on earth we comeWe'll share a dreamAnd sing with one voiceI am, you are we are AustralianI'm a teller of storiesI'm a singer of songsI am Albert NamatjiraAnd I paint the ghostly gumsI'm Clancy on his horseI'm Ned Kelly on the runI'm the one who waltzed MatildaI am AustralianI'm the hot wind from the desertI'm the black soil of the plainI'm the mountains and the valleysI'm the drowned and flooding rainsI am the rockI am the skyThe rivers when they runThe spirit of this great landI am AustralianChorus x2
