Australia! riding the rail across
Flat red plains.
Australia! soaring a sail across
Golden grains.
Ancient artists from dream time days
Entrancing wild things – a rainbow show
Forests of flowers, a dream time blaze
Elegant buildings from long ago.
Australia, Australia, Australia!
C’mon, take our hand!
Get up, get up, and get over to
Down Under Land!
Grab your coat, row a boat,
Fly a plane, steam a train,
Teleport, come on sport! to
Down Under Land!
Australia! trekking the trails across
Low high hills.
Australia! swimming with whales across
Blue green thrills.
Ancient rocks from dream time days
Delightful theatre – the world’s our stage
Infinite beaches to dream time laze
Nightloads of parties – they’re all a-rage.
Australia, Australia, Australia!
C’mon, take our hand!
Get up, get up, and get over to
Down Under Land!
Grab your coat, row a boat,
Fly a plane, steam a train,
Teleport, come on sport!
To Down Under Land!
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Of its far blue low-slung ranges
And sun-hot burning sand.
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Dream on, dream for
My Dreamtime land.
Roads leading far beyond tomorrow,
Roads stretching from long ago,
Roads for me to travel
Across my Dreamtime land.
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Of its dry and rocky rivers
And creeks beneath the sand.
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Dream on, dream for
My Dreamtime land.
Roads leading far beyond tomorrow,
Roads stretching from long ago,
Roads for me to travel
Across my Dreamtime land.
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Of its fields like foreign countries,
And threats from desert sand.
Dream, then, of Australia,
My Dreamtime land,
Dream on, dream for
My Dreamtime land.
Roads leading far beyond tomorrow,
Roads stretching from long ago,
Roads for me to travel
Across my Dreamtime land.
Australia! riding the rail across
Flat red plains.
Australia! soaring a sail across
Golden grains.
Ancient artists from dream time days
Entrancing wild things – a rainbow show
Forests of flowers, a dream time blaze
Elegant buildings from long ago.
Australia, Australia, Australia!
C’mon, take our hand!
Get up, get up, and get over to
Down Under Land!
Grab your coat, row a boat,
Fly a plane, steam a train,
Teleport, come on sport! to
Down Under Land!
Australia! trekking the trails across
Low high hills.
Australia! swimming with whales across
Blue green thrills.
Ancient rocks from dream time days
Delightful theatre – the world’s our stage
Infinite beaches to dream time laze
Nightloads of parties – they’re all a-rage.
Australia, Australia, Australia!
C’mon, take our hand!
Get up, get up, and get over to
Down Under Land!
Grab your coat, row a boat,
Fly a plane, steam a train,
Teleport, come on sport!
To Down Under Land!
Music by Ken Bayly
My town is far from the city’s noise
With red gums shading the stream,
Where swallows soar and flash their wings, and
Small boys start to dream.
My town is down by a river bend,
Where summer lasts all year,
Where children dive and swim like kings, and
Ev’ry thing is clear.
Come on down to my town, my town home -
Come, come with me,
Come with me, come and see my home town,
My Australian home.
My town is high on a mountain side
With blue gums touching the sky,
Where wild birds laugh and sing strange songs, and
Dreamers start to fly.
My town is up among the hills and trails
Where winter rims the air,
Where children sing of billabongs, and
Hope is ev’rywhere.
Come on down to my town, my town home -
Come, come with me,
Come with me, come and see my home town,
My Australian home.
My town is down by the rolling sea,
With white waves washing the sand,
Where seagulls wheel across the bay, and
Dreaming fills the land.
My town is down by the ocean waves
Where salt air fills our lungs,
Where children play life’s holiday, and
All the world is young.
Come on down to my town, my town home -
Come, come with me,
Come with me, come and see my home town,
My Australian home.
Music by Ken Bayly
Sing a song for Australia,
Sing it loud and strong:
Take us into the future,
Where you and I belong.
Sing a song for Australia,
Make it rise and fall.
Take us into the future:
Take us one and all.
Australians (Australians) – we are Australia.
Australians (Australians!) – we are Australia!
Sing a song for the people,
Colours of ev’ry hue.
Take us into the future -
The ancient and the new.
Sing a song for Australia,
Sing to make us proud.
Take us into the future:
Heads up and unbowed.
Australians (Australians) – we are Australia.
Australians (Australians!) – we are Australia!
Sing a song for the children,
Yindi and Romeo.
Take us into the future –
Where each of them can grow.
Sing a song for Australia,
Sing of sun and sand.
Take us into the future,
To our dreaming land.
Australians (Australians) – we are Australia.
Australians (Australians!) – we are Australia!
Sing a song for our Country,
Land inside the sea.
Take us into the future –
Where Nature holds the key.
Sing a song for Australia,
Sing for you and me,
Take us into the future,
Where we all agree:
Australians (Australians) – we are Australia.
Australians (Australians!) – we are Australia!
Sing your songs for tomorrow,
Sing them far and wide:
Take us into the future –
Where life is magnified.
Sing those songs for Australia,
Sing them night and day.
Take us into the future, when
All of us will say:
Australians (Australians) – we are Australia.
Australians (Australians!) – we are Australia!
Music by Robbie Grech
Spoken
Where do you take me, Australia?
Why do you have such a hold?
What makes Australia my country?
My land of the green and the gold.
Sung
It’s the colour of the green
It’s the colour of gold
It’s the heat of the day
And the bite of the cold
It’s brown creeks and blue hills and friendships untold
It’s sights and seas and folks that please:
It’s the land of the green and the gold -
The land of the green and the gold.
Spoken
Where do you take us, Australia?
Why do you have such a hold?
What makes Australia our country?
Our land of the green and the gold.
Sung
It’s the colour of the green
It’s the colour of gold
It’s the never say die
And it’s breaking the mould
It’s splendid achievements and lambs in the fold
It’s towns and plains and flooding rains -
It’s the land of the green and the gold -
The land of the green and the gold.
Spoken
Where do we take you, Australia?
How do we keep such a hold?
What makes our country Australia?
It’s the land of the green and the gold.
Sung
It’s the colour of the green
It’s the colour of gold
It’s the face of the young
And the grace of the old
Explorers and trackers and bushrangers bold
It’s dreams and words and flights of birds
It’s the land of the green and the gold -
The land of the green and the gold.
Music by Ken Bayly
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