"I Am Australian" - Australian Patriotic Song

Patriotic song from Australia.
Lyrics: Bruce Woodley & Dobe Newton, 1987
Music: Bruce Woodley & Dobe Newton, 1987
LYRICS:
I come from the Dreamtime,
From the dusty red-soil plains;
I am the ancient heart,
The keeper of the flame.
I stood upon the rocky shore;
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.
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