https://fb.watch/pdOP8uFtE_/ This song by the Seekers who started about 1964, really sums up what an Australian is. Many of us want this to be our national anthem.As it is inclusive of all. I've done a explanation of what the lyrics refer to so anyone not Australian can understand their meaning.......
I came from the Dreamtime( the aboriginal story of where they came from)
From the dusty red-soil plains( Austrlialia is a vast country of red soil and open space)
I am the ancient heart ( heart being from where the love of country comes from)
The keeper of the flame( keeping of ancient customs alive)
I stood upon the rocky shores
I watched the tall ships come( Tall ships,being the sailing ships that brought the British to Australia)
For forty thousand years I've been
The first Australian( Now acknowledged as being the world oldest continual living culture of 65,000 years
[Verse 2: Russell Hitchcock]
I came upon the prison ship
Bound down by iron chains( many British were transported to Australia as convicts in ball and chain)
I fought the land( Australia is a harsh unforgiving country)
Endured the lash( being whipped)
And waited for the rains( Australia is the world most arid country with little rain fall for its size)
I'm a farmers wife
On a dry and barren run( A run is a Station as we call a ranch or farm)
A convict, then a free man(after serving time convicts were given their freedom)
I became Australian.
[Verse 3: Judith Durham]
I'm the daughter of a digger ( A digger was a gold miner then it was used for a soldier and is still used)
Who sought the mother load( Mother load being a large amount of gold found in the ground)
The girl became a woman
On the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression( 1930s depression of economics )
I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler( A person who lives in a rural or remote areas and does it hard
I am Australian
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[Chorus: Durham & Hitchcock]
We are one
But we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come( Australia has about
270 ancestries of different nationalities living here
We'll share a dream
And sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
[Verse 4: Russell Hitchcock]
I'm a teller of stories( Aboriginals dont have a written language so everything is told word of mouth mainly through songs)
I'm a singer of songs (see above)
I am Albert Namatjira ( famous Aboriginal artist of European style)
And I paint the ghostly gums ( In Australia the eucalypti are commonly known as
gum trees or stringybark trees)
I'm Clancy on his horse( Clancy was a horseman in the high mountains)
I'm Ned Kelly on the run( Ned Kelly infamous outlaw called a bush ranger who made his own armour our of plow discs)
I'm the one who waltzed matilda( Matilda is a nik name for the bedroll of a Swagman (Hobo) Waltzed mean to walk with)
I am Australian
[Verse 5: Judith Durham]
I'm the hot wind from the desert (the north wind is the hot wind from inland Australia)
I'm the black soil of the plain( Plains being the open ground inland)
I'm the mountains and the valleys
I'm the drowned and flooding rains
I am the rock( reference largest single monolith ROCK called Uluru or 'Ayres rock' in central Australia
I am the sky
The rivers when they run( we have droughts where the rivers stop flowing)
The spirit of this great land( being Australian isn't being born here, it is a state of mind)
I am Australian
[Chorus: Durham & Hitchcock]
We are one
But we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We'll share a dream
And sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
[Chorus: All]
We are one
But we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We'll share a dream
And sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
We are one
But we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We'll share a dream
And sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian