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Waltzing Matilda
05:02
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WALTZING MATILDA Banjo Patterson
Arrangement Anu Grace 2019. https://youtu.be/2gi6ShIpers
Verse 1
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
Who’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
Chorus
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
Verse 2
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that waterhole;
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me."
Chorus ... And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
kookaburra sits in the old gum tree ......
Verse 3
Up rode the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred;
Up rode the troopers: one, two, three:
"Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me."
Chorus (with different last line)
“You'll come a Waltzing, you scoundrel with me."
Verse 4
Up jumped the swagman, sprang into that billabong:
"You'll never take me alive," said he.
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong -
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me
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2. |
Black Heart for Country
04:06
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3. |
Stalk
02:50
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Fear came stalking my heart last night
Queasy edge in the half light
Shadows began to linger
Watching my back like a ninja
I felt my space shrink so very very small
Easily led but not so easily ignored
I panicked, Wondered which way to turn
when I remembered it was only fear
Dropped down, on my haunches
Declared 'this is my place'
Said it out loud in my deepest bass
Come on, come on, Bring it, bring it
show me your face Its only fear
and from fear I can learn ......
And who said you had to live life that way
who said, who said
Mortage, debts, security, bylaws
Who said that you would not be safe
until you had it locked so tight in place
who said, who said
Who said we get older no wiser
Who said you can't be bigger and brighter
Who told you to stay small and lose
who said who said
Who Who
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4. |
The Greta Turning
05:52
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We have been brainwashed
blinded to see
this climate denial - denial denial denial
Dark work of the Oligarchy
Democracy sold out Consumers for the powers of greed
And who can understand what Intentions command
this countermovement of hypocrisy
Time to wise up and see. What in hell is going on
When it takes a girl of 17 to cry "You're doing it all wrong"
"I shouldn't have to be here, I should be still in school"
but you've stolen my childhood, my future too"
What will it take
For a Great Turning where we join the children to fight
the real cause still warming in the fist of the right
lies the money, lies the might
I don't wanna believe they're evil but Greta might've got it right
what will it take
Interlude
With a Great Turning we could all be Navigators
Eyes to the wind, flying, our Ithaca's all aligning
And all of us Captains, all of us Crew
Humbled and hungry by the largesse of the view
And on that Great Turning , we allow ourselves to feel
this knife edge of Life n death, Reminds us how to kneel before
The Beauty of this Earth Respect again all the life
In face of our mortality, be moved from this Vice
And in that Great Turning how deeply woven threads
Waken us to wonder to that fragile butterfly wing
And the I and the I and the I of it all
Linking arms around the Sun
And back and back and back again
to Kin and Country again
What did it take?
How did we get through
It was only when,
we began
to think of
You
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5. |
Good Things Coming
04:38
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GOOD THINGS COMING
Here's a little song that I wrote
- not for you
To remind me that even tho you stone
broke my heart
that I'm not broken still
I had to learn to love the cracks, the things that break
the things that smack
coz they burn off the dross and only through that loss
can I be whole again
Coz everything that comes around
goes around to come again
that's why i'm smiling coz I know
We got good things coming
Back in old Japan
they have a way to repair
Broken pottery is filled with gold
and valued all the more
For the richer story that is told
that what is broken, what is old
given love n care, can be so much more
than it used to be
Coz Everything that comes around
goes around to come again
we get a second chance
to bring Light to circumstance and
Everything that comes around, goes around to come again
that's why i'm smiling coz I know
We got good things coming
We got good things coming Yeah
We got good things coming
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6. |
Written in the Stars
03:44
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WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Thonar Tidai-Zinc Japue x4
Eddie couldn't understand why his land was no longer his
For thousands of years it was his blood and future kin
For 10 years Eddie fought before they saw the Light
recognising Native Title as an indigenous Right
Thonar Tidai-Zinc Japue x4
10 years it been again and soon we'll see
Our indigenous people with constitutional Rights
What can we learn form this oldest living culture
Sustainable systems based on Equality
Thonar Tidai-Zinc Japue x4 ( terra Nullius no more)
Koiki, Koiki Mabo, you fought so long and hard
Koiki, Koiki Mabo, for the truth of Australia
Koiki, Koiki Mabo, there's a star named after you
Some recognition for the change your family brought through
Terra Nullius, Terra Nullius Terra Nulliius no more
always was always ill be Indigenous Land
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7. |
Chicken Bones
02:47
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Chicken Bones
Just slip out the back Jack
crack the back of this madness
where the chicken bones bubble and all this trouble
is just a thickening of the brew
Dance your dance here while you still got your hand in
Wiggle your hips on a mid nite cruise ship
Sail on through the dark
Coz you know truth
you got a subterranean radar for it
even while you play the Game of Thrones
Your Gut knows Truth
but you want to play strip Jack naked
Keep throw'n up our dice, you'll end up a pile o bones
Remember a time when
you're all gossamer light thread
And dust to dust you want to coalesce and land here on this Earth
No sooner you thought that, you hear a knock at the door that's
Your brand new Mother welcoming you Home
But you know truth
you got a subterranean radar for it
even while you play the Game of Thrones
Your Gut knows Truth
but you want to play strip Jack naked
Keep throw'n up our dice, you'll end up a pile o bones
Yeah you know Truth
when it falls so neat in the palm of your hand
Laying waste your arsenal of plans
You know truth with it's serendipitous timing
and all those things you can't explain
And all those things you can't explain!
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8. |
The Thaw
04:53
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9. |
This Flame
03:32
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This flame in my heart
has burned since Time began
Right from the start never ever been apart
I remember
When I remember
And I know seems the road, been so long and cold
All alone you've shouldered your load
Did you remember
ThIs Flame in your Heart
Close as your Breath Warm & receiving
Always Here When your world needs redeeming
Whenever you feel lost, then Remember this Pulse
*. *. *. * that's beats *. *. in the darkness
of your Heart Woooah
So come home from the cold
Wander no more alone
Sit before this Hearth where your name is etched in Blood
And Remember this Flame in your Heart
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10. |
Belong to Country
03:48
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I belong to this Country, I belong
I belong to this country, I belong
River, Land and Sea
Desert Mountain and me
We belong to the Country We Belong
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Anu Grace Music
Anu Grace - professional jazz singer for 30 years fronts Uke Nomad. Their original songs, topical and at times political, graft the intimacy of the people they meet, relationship to country & offer deeper access into the lore of humaness. Uke Nomad - Anu Grace & Laurie Bycroft tour regional communities, running The Pop Up Ukestra & gigging. Anu has just written & produced Belong to Country. ... more
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