SOLID ROCK, SACRED GROUND.
( Puli Kunpungka )

© 1982 Shane Howard
Pitjantjatjara Translation: © 2012 Trevor Adamson/Ruby James/Shane Howard/Jodi Martin

Out here nothing changes
Not in a hurry anyway
You can feel the endlessness
With the coming of the light of day
Talking about a chosen place
They want to sell it in the marketplace
Just a minute now

Ch.
Standin’ on solid rock
Standin’ on sacred ground
Livin’ on borrowed time
And the winds of change
Keep blowin’ down the line

’Round about the dawn of time
Dreaming all began
Proud people came
Livin’ in a promised land
Runnin’ from a heart of darkness
Searching for a heart of light
This could be paradise

CHORUS

Standin’ on the shore one day
Saw the white sails in the sun
Wasn’t long before you felt the sting
White man, white law, white gun
Don’t tell me that it’s justified
Cause somewhere, someone lied.....(Captain Cook lied)
It’s hard enough just to survive
Who’s that crying?
Genocide
But we’re getting stronger now, stronger now

Puli kunpungka ngaranyi
Manta miil-miilpa katu
Nyuntu kurangka ngaranyi
Walpa kampa kutjuparinyi
Walpa pulkaringanyi
Puli kunpungka ngaranyi
Manta miil-miilpa katu
Nyuntu wirungka ngaranyi
Walpa kampa kutjuparinyi
Walpa pulkaringanyi

Standin’ on solid rock
Standin’ on sacred ground
Livin’ on borrowed time
And the winds of change
Are blowin’ down the line.

https://www.facebook.com/goannafella/posts/d41d8cd9/10156094824594461/   (Shane H. correcting online lyrics)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxX9YDL0tk     clip of Goanna fronted by a very youthful-looking Shane Howard(!) – Live at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAMtQQYcZ0    a 2016 version with Darlow and featuring Shane Howard.



R-J