I Am Australian

(With Judith Durham)

I came upon the prison ship

Bound 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.

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.

(Chorus)

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'm a teller of stories,

I'm a singer of songs

I am Albert Namatjira,

And 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.

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.

Chorus

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 from the dream,

From the dusty red soil plains,

I am the ancient heart

The keeper of the flame,

I stood upon the rocky shores,

I watched the tall ships come,

For forty thousand years I'd been

The first Australian.

Chorus

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.

Repeat Chorus