Top Songs By Bruce Woodley
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bruce Woodley
Performer
Claire Woodley
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bruce Woodley
Composer
Dobe Newton
Composer
Lyrics
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
I come from the dream-time, 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 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 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 am 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
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We 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 share a dream and sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian!
Writer(s): Bruce Woodley, David Newton
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