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[Verse]
A
You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
D
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
A
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
D
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
A
Our country's been sold by the powers that be
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To big, wealthy nations way over the sea
A
We couldn't be taken with bayonets and lead
D
And so they decided to buy us instead
A D
C
G
And talking of wars and the blood that was spilled
C
The widows, the crippled, the ones that were killed
G
And I often wonder if their ghosts can see
C
What's happening now to their native country
G
I wonder if ghosts of the fallen can see
C
The crime and corruption and vast poverty
G
With a lost generation of youth on the dole
C
Adrift on life's ocean without any goal
D
A
I once had a dream of our country so grand
D
Where rivers outback irrigated the land
A
With dams and canals in that wasteland out there
D
And big inland cities with work everywhere
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The profit from factory, and farming, and mine
D
Was used to develop a nation so fine
A
Then I woke from my dreaming to reality
D
That the wealth of our nation goes over the sea
A
You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
D
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
A
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
D
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
A D
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
