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068 OUR FATHERS CLEARED THE BUSH by Mick Hughes

1. Our fathers cleared the bush boys,
They made them green and lush.
They built the roads on sustenance,
Then marched away to war,
They left their wives and children,
In a rich land that was poor.

verse 1 used as chorus

2. Our children they will grow up
And a different tale they'll tell,
Our children they will grow up
And ring old Freedom's bell.
We'll build a mighty nation
From the Gulf down to the Bight,
We'll build a mighty nation
On equality and right.

3. Our leaders go a-wandering
A strange old tale they'll tell.
Our leaders go a-wandering,
Our lovely land to sell.
Now listen here you Yankees,
Now listen to my tale.
Don't bother coming over,
Our country's not for sale.

4. We're going to turn the northern rivers,
We're going to make them run down south,
We're going to pay the Old Age Pensioners,
Feed every hungry mouth.
We'll build a mighty nation
From shore to shining shore,
We'll grow the barrel clover
On the plains of the Nullarbor.

video - Gary Shearston OUR FATHERS CLEARED THE BUSH: A recent song from Victorian songwriter Mick Hughes. It appeared in "Singabout" - the journal of the Sydney Bush Music Club - in 1962 and has since become widely circulated.
Singabout, 4(4), July 1962