@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Wow! that's a big ask Springy. I'll do my best but you'll have to be patient, it's not something I (or even Old Blue) can dash off in a hurry.
My current thinking is, it doesn't really need 3 verses - as an anthem they'd never all be sung anyway. Maybe one verse incorporating lines or themes from the others and the chorus would be sufficient.
Old Blue has cast his eye over my first draft and tells me it needs more work ("It's p*ss weak, mate," were his actual words) In the meantime he thought you might like to see his version:
We’re the Dreamtime blokes whose rock art was the first ‘Australiana',
We’re the sheilas off that brothel ship, The Lady Juliana,
We’re the swaggies and the bushrangers who roamed the great outback,
And the sundowners who lost their way and perished on the track.
We’re the bludgers and the larrikins, the captains of the ‘Push’,
We’re the shearers we’re the miners, we’re the b*stards from the bush.
We’re the ten pound Poms, we’re migrants from each land beneath the sun,
And every bl**dy one of us is an Australian.
We are one but we are many etc.
And here's my own effort - a bit anaemic compared to Old Blue's, but it was the best I could do and says more or less the same thing:
We’re the nations of the dreamtime
We’re the convicts in their chains,
The drover and the ‘drover’s boy’,
The settlers on the plains,
And whether we were born here
Or we came across the foam,
We’re all Australians who call
This wide brown land our home.
We are one, but we are many ...etc
