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SOMETHING OF VALUE
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Eric Bogle
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"SOMETHING OF VALUE"
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-Eric Bogle
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I can see the Southern Cross tonight
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While here below, bathed in it's light
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The Dreamtime land safe, snug and tight is sleeping
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Wrapped in complacency and contentedness
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No discordant sounds disturb our rest
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While the gentle souls we've dispossesed are weeping
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We took it all by the gun and the sword
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By the right of our race and in the name of our God
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Though as outcasts ourselves, transported, condemned
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None knew better than we the injustice of men
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We took it all in our hunger and need
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Enslaved by our past and consumed by our greed
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And left them to beg for the scraps at our door
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While we called them drunkards and wasters and whores
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They've been drowning, drowning in their tears
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For the last two hundread years
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From England's New Jerusalem
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To the Dreamtime land the tall ships came
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With human cattle in convict chains to bind them
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In the grim fight just to stay alive
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Dreams must struggle to survive
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Few could see the glitt'ring prize before them
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We had it all in the palm of our hand
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A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new land
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One last chance to break from the chains of the past
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To build something of value, build something to last
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This ancient land was a vast empty page
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Waiting for the great writers of a brand new age
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The future was ours to protect or profane
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A paradise lost, a paradise gained
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Now tell me, is paradise here,
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After two hundred years?
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So now, beneath the Southern Cross
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It's time to tally up the cost
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Of what we've gained and what we've lost forever
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Though much has gone we can't replace
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Those of us who love this place
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Together now, must turn and face the future
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So here's to us all, we're frail humankind
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Who wander through life mostly helpless and blind
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To our courage and cowardice, our humor and pain
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Our hundred steps forward, ninety-nine back again
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Yes here's to us all, the wise and the fools
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The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the cruel
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As we march to the beat of an uncertain drum
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Stumbling towards what we may yet become
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Towards the brave new frontiers,
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Of the next two hundred years
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