The Seekers – I Am You Are We Are Australian (Guitar)

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I came from the dreamtime, from the dusty red-soil plains

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I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame

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I stood upon the rocky shores, I watched the tall ships come

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For forty thousand years I've been, the first Australian

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I came upon the prison ship, bowed down by iron chains

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I fought the land, endured the lash, and waited for the rains

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I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife, on a dry and barren run

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A convict, then a free man, I became Australian

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I'm the daughter of a digger, who sought the mother lode.

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The girl became a woman, on the long and dusty road.

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I'm a child of the Depression, I saw the good times come,

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I'm a bushie, I'm a battler, I am Australian

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We are one, but we are many,

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And from all the lands on earth we come

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We'll share a  dream and sing with one voice,

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"I am, you are, we are Australian"

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I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs

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I am Albert Namatjira, and I paint the ghostly gums

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I'm Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run

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I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian

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I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains

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I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains

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I am the rock, I am the sky, the rivers when they run

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The spirit of this great land, I am Australian

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We are one, but we are many,

C   Em   Am      G                 C
And from all the lands on earth we come

            Em Am                  F   C
We'll share a  dream and sing with one voice,

 F C   Am  G       F       G   C
"I am, you are, we are Australian"

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"I am, you are, we are Australian"