In the beginning heaven and earth
There was darkness on the face of the deep
And God said: "Fiat lux et facta est lux"

Once was a time, long long ago
When all was dark and there were no people here to see
What God had made for you and me
So He said, He said "Let there be light!"
That holy light, let it shine on thee
That holy light, let it shine on me
Let it shine through your lives
And through the fed'ral constitution
I tell you He said, He said "Let there be light!:
Et facta est lux!"

Saint Paul wrote to the Ephesians
"Have nothing to do with the things of the darkness
But bring them out to the light"
The good book says "Ye were sometimes darkness
But now ye are light in the Lord
Walk as children of light, of light"

Walk in the light, in understanding
With cries of wonder, the gift of sight
Keeping no secrets, it feels so right
Live in the spirit, walk in the light

Vote for your future, build on your past
Vote for Australia, long may she last!
One people for ever, let's all unite
Marching together, walk in the light

Walkin' in the bright white light of union
Walkin' in the sweet red heat of joy
Walkin' in the glow of freedom and security
Australia ahoy!

There's a light that comes with Federation!
We'll be marching together, friend with friend
With pride, security, free trade, White Australia
True-blue British to the end!

Let's walk in love, love ev'ry day
The Fed'ral government will guide the way
Love fears no evil, love knows no pride
Now and forever love will provide

Walk with the saviour, walk with us all
In temp'rance and freedom, walkin' so tall
We'll be a Commonwealth and she'll be right
Forward together, walk in the light!

The songs, the Dreamtime, when time ran slowly
Rocks and hills, the waterholes and trees
Sprouted from the long dead land, investing it with meaning
Songlines, live in spirit, each tribe in its own territory

My solemn duty is to sentence you to be transported to New South Wales
There to serve a term of seven years
For your crime of stealing six cucumber plants
I trust you'll see the error of your ways

White men came to build a prison Then settlers with their flocks of sheep With guns to kill all that they saw There were stations, missions, grog Education, disease, prisons To assimilate the poor benighted proud Blackfella Rejoice!

Aboriginal states included: Arabana, Aranda, Badimaia, Bagindji, Bagu, Balardong, Banggala, Bibelman, Bigambul, Bindjareb, Bordaulum, Budidjara, Bulangu, Bundamura, Burara, Darkinjung, Darug, Dieri, Djargudi Djaru, Djawin, Djinba, Djirribal, Gadudjara, Gandju, Gangulu Blackfella, Gari Waluwarra Rejoice! Mangaridji, Mangarei, Mandjindja, Njamal, Njibali, Njangomada, Ngugan, Ngarigo, Nangomeri, Nangadadara, Turrbal, Tongaranka, Togeman, Tiwi, Rembranga, Pita Pita, Pitjentjarrah, Nyekini, Jogula, Mulluk Mulluk, Jaraldi, Jabu, Ingada, Indjibandi, Loritja, Wurunjerri, Gidjingali, Gindungurra, Girimayi, Goa, Goara, Gogada, Golpa, Gugadja, Gunavidji, Gunbulan, Guradjara, Gurindji, Geawegal, Wailbri, Kuku Yalandji, Wathi-wathi, Mara, Wanamara, Jiwadja, Jandruwanda, Tangani, Wadjug, Wiranggu, Moola Boola

The natives know that all people that on earth do dwell
Must sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell
Come ye before Him - blackfella, rejoice

You are the weakest link. Goodbye!

Australia, Australia, Australia

Aborigines - they do not count
So let's not count them at all, at all
And let's bar niggers and Chinamen
Lascars, kanakas and all
White Australia - Asians keep out
Dirty, diseased, and depraved
Don't know their station
No miscegenation
Or we'll be enslaved

We are a virgin dressed in white
We're walking in the light
(Too many blacks about
At least there ain't no doubt
That soon they'll all die out
No doubt)

We are bringing home the bacon to awaken southern oceans
(All their God-forsaken, mistaken old potions)
And we'll keep them free of sermons by the Germans and the French
(Also other vermin determining notions)
Interstate trade and commerce shall be absolutely free
Interstate taxes shall disappear
To simply huge acclaim
(Trade and commerce shall be sweetly and completely free of taxes)
All the customs houses far and near
(Ev'ry customs house abolished and demolished over night)
And each customs agent and cashier
(And their registers, account books, and the smugglers' goods they seize)
Will lose its wheeze, what's more its squeeze will be dead and gone

A higher stature, a grander name
A bolder posture, a broader fame
Calm and laconic, often ironic, anti-heroic
Stoic the native-born man and boy
A longer arm-span, a bigger game
A wider wing-span, renown, acclaim
Tough, sentimental, rough, rather gentle, bushie, suburban
Urban the native-born man and boy
We do proclaim Australia
We've lit the flame - Australia

In this sunburnt southern land
We have heard a nation call
It's a continent, a nation
With federation

One flag, one hope
One glorious destiny
We are one indissoluble nation
Six colonies as one

Oh Lord thy will was done

Humbly relying on all the blessings
(Humbly beseeching almighty God)
Bestowed on us by the Almighty Lord
One firm voice as in one accord

We're marching together now and forever
Marching together on bended knee
In unison and in harmony
An island proudly girt by sea

Good God! We place our faith in thee
In nation and in continent
In God we trust

Good God! This place a timeless
Wide brown country
With its mountains full of rocks and dirt
And we are girt by sea

To federate was a must!
Our God is just!

Federation!

It's our home, this land
Sweeping plains and mountain ranges
Highways, roads, and huge interchanges
Thus to us it you must hand

Oh noble heart
Beating fiercely proud and loyal
Beating fiercely for any Royal
It's our land's true-blue red heart
So true, Blue

She wore that black ribbon through all of her years
And the black arm-band day after day
Black gin, black heart, black laughter, black tears
Black beauty, black children stolen away
She wore that black ribbon to tie up her hair
But her hair and her heart were grey
But her hair and her heart were grey ...

Nobody told me 'bout the Dreamtime
The Rainbow Snake, the totem and taboo
All I ever heard about the rainbow was the pot of gold
Nobody told me, I never knew

We are city boys and girls, what do we know
About blackfella culture and the land?
They'd go walkabout
And anyway they'd all die out
We didn't care or understand
Take that Uluru: great big boulder
I clambered up one summer night
Up top I saw
A source of blackfella law
A spiritual place, a sacred site

Nobody told me 'bout the Dreamtime
The Rainbow Snake, the totem and taboo
All we ever heard about the rainbow was the pot of gold
Nobody told us, we never knew

I'm a city boy, but I know our culture
Comes from our kinship with the soil
We'll take the flamin' lot
And the land can all go rot
Coal and uranium, timber and oil
Aborigines once knew better
The stories, dances, and the songs
Each rock, bird, and tree
Given meaning in corroboree
Each in its place, everything belongs

Nobody told me 'bout the Dreamtime
Though ev'ry day I'd hear a didgeridoo
But now I know about the rainbow and that black arm-band
Nobody told me, what do I do?
Nobody told us, we never knew

(She wore a black ribbon to tie up her hair
But her hair and her heart were grey)

Dear old Poms sing at the Proms
"Britannia rules the waves"
Here and there, everywhere
You'll find their white man's graves
Fighting for the flag, stiff upper lip
For Country and Queen, flannelled fools
Battling in a Test match, playing the game
They're scoring some runs, but then
Oo ah Glen McGra'!
Poms all know they'll lose the cricket
Unless Britannia waives the rules

When The Don was batting
And fours came fast and free
Ev'ry day was a rainbow day for me

But poor Eddie Mabo, you're dead and gone
You were so charming, determined, and brave
After your vict'ry they smashed up your grave
Yet poor Eddie Mabo lives on

Sovereign nationhood and unity In accord with each community But the aborigines Their sovereignties Were utterly despised Not recognised at all

Here's to thee, oh Federation There must be a celebration Virgin white Not won by might Nor ringed with steel Deep-rooted in the commonweal

Those were the bad old days back then
These days it's diff'rent somehow
Our leaders are hon'rable women and men
Just what aren't they telling us now?

Make sure you have a nation
Where men walk proud and free
So ev'ryone can cry
"Australia for aye!"
And "Australia for me!"

Alas a nation'l anthem
Must have lines (that are) full of grandiloquence
Some that stride and strut
With some none too subt-
Ly emotional sentiments
Some words sublime
An anti-clim-
Ax, an island that's girt by sea
Then all you need is some rousing fanfares
And a drumroll for Liberty

Your statesmen and your soldiers
Have made your nation's mark
So ev'ryone declare
"Advance Australia Fair!"
And "Advance Australia Dark!"

(Ratatata)
Federation! Jubilation!
Our Nation Australia!

All people that in China do dwell
Want to come over here, so we must
Federate, federate, federate rate rate!