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Australia's a big country / An' Freedom's humping bluey, / An' Freedom's on the wallaby / Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey? / She's just begun to boomerang, / She'll knock the tyrants silly, / She's goin' to light another fire / And boil another billy.
Our fathers toiled for bitter bread / While loafers thrived beside 'em, / But food to eat and clothes to wear, / Their native land denied 'em. / An' so they left their native land / In spite of their devotion, / An' so they came, or if they stole, / Were sent across the ocean.