Chords added by: H. de Ruyter de Wildt

  C5                                  F5              C5
I came from the dream-time, From the dusty red-soil plains
                 A5         F5      G5      C5
I am the ancient heart, The keeper of the flame
                                 F5           G5          A5
I stood upon the rocky shores, I watched the tall ships come.
    C5                                   F5         G5   C5
For forty thousand years I've been, The first Australian


  C5                                F5            C5
I came upon the prison ship, Bowed down by iron chains
  A5                                     F5      G5       C5
I fought the land, endured the lash, And waited for the rains
                                         F5       G5      A5
I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife, On a dry and barren run,
  C5                             F5        G5   C5
A convict, then a free man, I became Australian


        C5                         F5                 C5
I'm the daughter of a digger, Who sought the mother lode.
    A5                          F5        G5     C5 
The girl became a woman, On the long and dusty road.
                                 F5       G5          A5
I'm a child of the Depression, I saw the good times come,
      C5                        F5      G5   C5
I'm a bushie, I'm a battler, I am Australian.


C5  C.  C5               F5 C5
We are one, but we are many,
C5   E5   A5      G5                 C5
And from all the lands on earth we come.
            E5 A5                  F5   C5
We'll share a  dream and sing with one voice,
 F5 C5   A5  G5       C5       G5   C5
"I am , you are, we are Australian"

      C5                        F5         C5
I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs,
     A5                      F5         G5       C5
I am Albert Namatjira, And I paint the ghostly gums.
                                 F5     G5      A5
I'm Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run,
        C5                          F5      G5   C5
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian.

        C5                                 F5                 C5
I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains,
        A5                                 F5           G5        C5
I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains.
                                 F5      G5         A5
I am the rock, I am the sky, The rivers when they run,
    C5                            F5      G5   C5
The spirit of this great land, I am Australian.

C5  C.  C5               F5 C5
We are one, but we are many,
C5   E5   A5      G5                 C5
And from all the lands on earth we come.
            E5 A5                  F5   C5
We'll share a  dream and sing with one voice,
 F5 C5   A5  G5       C5       G5   C5
"I am , you are, we are Australian"

 F5 C5   A5  G5       C5       G5   C5
"I am , you are, we are Australian"