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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