"We are Australian"

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歌的名字叫“i am/we are australian"(by Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton)

2000年奥运会的时候,telstra拍的一个MTV,偶然看到的,挺有感染力. 回来搜索了半天,很可惜,没能找到免费下载. 这样也不错,记得当时找到那首久违的"伊莲"的法语歌后如此兴奋,可是后来也就没什么,大概没得到前的状态才是最令人痴醉的.

歌词也挺有意思,基本写出了澳大利亚的人口来源和构成,以及这个国家的移民化进程:

[1]
I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains
I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame
I stood upon the rocky shore
I watched the tall ships come
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

[2]
I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler.
I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man I became Australian.

[3]
I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression
I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler
I am Australian

[chorus]
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian.

[4]

I'm a teller of stories
I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira
I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse
I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda
I am Australian
[5]

I'm the hot wind from the desert
I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys
I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky
The rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land
I am Australian
[chorus]

We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian
I am, you are, we are Australian.


中间有几个人名,应该都是澳洲的历史人物,有空的时候要查一下