Sing Australia Lyrics - Singles - John Denver

This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the Higher Ground Album, and has also been released on the A Portrait, The John Denver Collection - Calypso and The Gift You Are Albums. 

I come to Australia as many people do 

To see the old koala, hitch a ride on a kangaroo 

To hear somebody call me mate and call somebody blue 

To hear the aboriginee play a didgeridoo 

Some of you came as prisoners two centuries ago 

Some of you come as kings and queens your blessing to bestow 

Some of you stand all swelled with pride, some with shattered wings 

But all of us come with open hearts to hear Australia sing 

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In the desert, in the city 

In the mountains and in the sea 

In the stories and in the people 

I can hear Australia sing 

Waltzing Matilda, the men of Galipoli 

Clancy of the Overflow, Crocodile Dundee 

The myth of all creation, the teaching of baiame 

The legends of a dreamtime for all eternity 

And in this celebration of 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 together 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 Australia sing 

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Sing Australia, Sing Australia, Sing Australia, Sing Australia 

In the sails on Sydney Harbour 

I can hear Australia sing 

Words and music by John Denver