I'm Australian - slova

I AM AUSTRALIAN

1. I came from the dreamtime, from the dusty red soil plains,

I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame.

I stood upon the rocky shore,

I watched the tal1 ships come,

For forty thousand years I've been the first Australian.

2. I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.

I cleared the Iand, endured the Iash, and waited for the rains.

l'rn a settler, l'rn a farmers wife. On a dry and barren run,

A convict and a free man

I became Australian.

3. l'rn the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode,

The girl becomes a woman on the long and dusty road,

l'rn a child of the depression

I saw the good times come,

l'rn a bushy, l'rn a battler,

I am Australian

Chorus:

We are one but we are many, And from all the Iands on earth we come.

We share a dream and sing with one voice,

I am you are we are Australian.

4. l'rn a teller of stories, l'rn a singer of songs,

I am Albert Namajira and I paint the ghostly gums,

l'rn Clancy on his horse, l'rn Ned Kelly on the run,

l'rn the one who waltzed Matilda,

I am Australian

5. l'rn the hot wind from the desert, l'rn the black soil on the plains,

l'rn the mountains and the vaJleys, l'rn the droughts 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:

We are one but we are many, And from all the lands on earth we come.

We share a dream and sing with one voice,

I am, you are, we are Australian.

We are one but we are many, And from aJl the lands on earth we come.

We share a dream and sing with one voice,

I am, you are, we are Australian.