I Am Australian (Youth Collaboration)

I came upon a prison ship

Bound down by iron chains

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

I'm a daughter of a digger

Who sought the mother load

The girl became a woman

On the long and dusty road

I'm a child of the depression

And I saw the good times come

I'm a bushy, I'm a battler

I am Australian

I'm a teller of stories

I'm a singer of songs

I am Albert Namatjira

And I paint the ghostly gums

I'm Clancy on his horse

I'm Ned Kelly on the run

I'm the one who waltzed Matilda

I am Australian

For 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'm the hot wind from the desert

I'm the black soil of the plains

I'm the mountains and the valleys

The drought and flooding rains

I am the rock, I am the sky

The rivers when they run

I'm the spirit of this great land

I am Australian

For 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

We are one

But we're 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