Lyr Req: We are Australian

25 Jan 01 - 05:59 PM (#382570)
Subject: We are Australian
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

Does anyone know where I can get the lyrics to this song? I've searched the web a fair bit but obviously not in the right spot. Chorus goes: we are one, but we are many and from all the lands on earth we come.....

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25 Jan 01 - 07:59 PM (#382670)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: Helen

Hi from Oz.

I have to admit I've heard this song way too many times in the last year with the Olympics, and we'll probably get overloaded with it for the centenary of the Federation of Australia this year. But give me a few years to get over that & I'll probably admit it's a good song (grin).

Helen

Click here http://www.southcom.com.au/~jennifert/tas/we-are.html

Have you tried using Google to search?
Click here http://www.google.com/

Helen

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25 Jan 01 - 08:00 PM (#382672)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: Helen

By the way, I used the search term "I am you are we are Australian"

Helen

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02 Feb 01 - 05:52 AM (#388105)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: GUEST,John Hill

I'm fairly sure this was written by Bruce Woodley of the "The Seekers". It is on their 25th Anniversary Reunion CD. Great folk group who actually outsold the Beatles one year in the sixties. I went to see them again last year at Birmingham NEC .... Judith Durham.... what a great voice...

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02 Feb 01 - 05:58 AM (#388107)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: alison

Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and Dobe Newton of the Bushwhackers.

slainte

alison

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15 Jul 02 - 09:21 PM (#748588)
Subject: Lyr Add: WE ARE AUSTRALIAN
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.southcom.com.au/~jennifert/tas/we-are.html

WE ARE AUSTRALIAN

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 tall ships come.
For forty thousand years, I'd been the first Australian.

CHO: 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.

I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler. I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run.
A convict then a free man, I became Australian. CHO.

I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode.
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road.
I'm a child of the depression. I saw the good times come.
I'm a bushy. I'm a battler. I am Australian. CHO.

I'm a teller of stories. I'm a singer of songs.
I am Albert Namatjira. I paint the ghostly gums.
I am Clancy on his horse. I'm Ned Kelly on the run.
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda. I am Australian. CHO.

I'm the hot wind from the desert. I'm the black soil of the plains.
I'm the mountains and the valleys. I'm the drought 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. CHO.

I am, you are, we are Australian.

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16 Jul 02 - 06:26 AM (#748763)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: ozmacca

And a whole lot better than many of the "We're the bestest" national songs for my money. I know we had it rammed down our collective throats during the Olympics - which I for one could have done without, but even so, it's still a good song. Makes me feel sort of what's the word, patriotic? That'll do.

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16 Jul 02 - 07:07 AM (#748777)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are Australian
From: greg stephens

Unfamiliar with that song. An inteesting couple of little borrows for the "Flying Cloud"..,are there bits of any other folksongs lurking in there?

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