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I come to Australia as many people do

To see the old Koala, hitch a ride on a kanga

roo

To hear some body call me mate, and call some

body blue

To hear an abo rigine play a diggerid do

Some of you came as prisoners, two centu ries

ago

Some of you came as Kings and Queens, your blessings

to be stow

Some of you stand all swelled with pride

Some with shattered wings

But all of us come with open hearts to hear Aus

tralia sing

In the desert, in the city

In the mountains and in the sea

In the stories and in the people

I can hear Aus tralia sing

Waltzing Ma tilda, the men of Galli poli

Clancy of the overflow and Crocodile Dun dee

The myth of all creation, the teaching of

Baia me

The legends of the dreamtime, for all eter nity

And in this cele bration, a brief two hundred

years

The cost to build a nation, in blood and sweat and

tears

And if we stand divided, divided we will

fall

But if we stand to gether we shall conquer all

In the desert, in the city

In the mountains and in the sea

In the stories and in the people

I can hear Aus tralia sing

Sing Aus tralia, sing Aus tralia,

Sing Aus stralia, sing Aus stralia

In the sails on Sydney Harbor

I can hear Australia sing

Ken Reynolds