National anthem
Australia, my home:
This life we’ve built, this land we’ve known,
The ways we share—all part of me:
A spirit strong and fair and free.
We are that rock
Of many hues—
Our nation’s heart.
The spirit flows to every part.
And like the rock we can be sure
From age to age we will endure.
Australians, be bold!
Look to the new, learn from the old.
Preserve the trust that keeps us one,
And wisely use this prize we’ve won.
A mighty gum:
Its pale breadth calm
Against the sky—
A hardy haven—so you and I
Should heed those first and understand
We are that tree, the tree the land.
WALTZING MATILDA
Oh! There was
once a swagman camped in a billabong
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree.
And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda, my darling,
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a water-bag -
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the waterhole.
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him in glee,
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker-bag
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me."
Down came the Squatter a-riding his thoroughbred.
Down came Policemen - one, two, three.
Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.
But the swagman, he up and he jumped in the waterhole
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree.
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the billabong,
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
LAND DOWNUNDER
Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said...
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?
"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said...
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Yeah
Lyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said...
"Oh! Do you come from a land down under?
(oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Refrain....
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