Sing Australia

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

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

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