I Am Australian

	  		SOng by Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton 
 
tabbed by Buck 
 
An easy version for us not so clever players... 
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I came from the dream-time, from the dusty red soil plains.I_ 
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am the an-cient heart,_the keep-er of the flame. I 
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stood up-on the rocky shore, I watched the tall ships come, for 
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forty thousand years I've been the first Aus-tra-li-an. 
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I came up-on the prison ship bowed by iron chains. I clear- 
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ed the land, endured the lash,and wait-ed for the rains.  I'm a 
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settler, I'm a farmer's wife, on a dry and barren run,   A 
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convict and a free man, I be-      came Aus-tra-li--    an.   We are 
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one     but we are man-y and from  
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all the lands on Earth we come. We share a  
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dream and sing with one voice,  
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I am___ you are we are Aus-tra-li-an.