Eureka Lyrics - Van Diemen's Land - Russell Morris

I can hear them in the distance coming over the hills 

Marching of the feet sound so battle drilled 

Standing in the goldfields with mud on my boots 

Won't be long now for the moment of truth 

I hear a piper and a drum, 

see sticks against guns 

Armageddon has begun 

Nowhere to run 

Peter Lalor talking with his head in the air 

I see a silhouette telling men to beware 

Livin' on damper and a mountain of dreams 

They backed us to the wall in the miners squeeze 

I hear a piper and a drum 

See sticks against guns 

Armageddon has begun 

Nowhere to run 

The red coats look like murder and the black coats like birds of prey 

The banner on bakery hill has been torn away 

Sticks picks and shovels are the weapons we share 

Against government muskets in a fight that's unfair 

Livin' in a city of of canvas' hard 

A barefoot fighter in the slaughter yard 

I hear a piper and a drum, 

see sticks against guns, 

Armageddon has begun 

Nowhere to run 

I hear a piper and a drum 

See sticks against guns 

Armageddon has begun 

Nowhere to run