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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.