I Am Australian Songtext
von Bruce Woodley

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 came from the dreamtime, from the dusty red soil plains
I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flames
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 ships, bound down by iron chains
I cleared 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 a daughter of a digger who sought the mother load
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 bushy, 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 plain
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

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