Sing Australia

I come to Australia

As many people do

To see the old koala

Hitch a ride on a kangaroo

To hear somebody call me mate

And call somebody blue

To hear an aborigine play a digereedoo



Some of you came as prisoners two centuries ago

Some of you come as kings and queens, your blessing to bestow

Some of you stand all swelled with pride,

Some with shattered wings

But all of us come with open hearts to hear Australia sing



In the deserts, in the cities, in the mountains, and in the sea

In the stories, and in the people

I can hear Australia sing



Waltzing Matilda, the men of Galipoli

Clancy of The Overflow, Crocodile Dundee

The myth of all creation, the teaching of Baiame

The legends of the Dreamtime for all eternity



In this celebration of a brief two hundred years

The cost to build a nation in blood and sweat and tears

And if we stand divided, divided we will fall

But if we stand together, we shall conquer all



In the deserts, in the cities, in the mountains, and in the sea

In the stories, and in the people

I can hear Australia sing



Sing Australia, Sing Australia, Sing Australia, Sing Australia

In the sails of Sydney Harbor

I can hear Australia sing