I´m Australian

I came from the dream-time,

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've been

The first Australian.

I came upon the prison ship,

Bowed down by iron chains,

I fought 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 bushie, I'm a battler,

I am 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'm a teller of stories,

I'm a singer of songs,

I am Albert Namatjira

And I paint the ghostly gums.

I'm 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.

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."