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In Australia there is great debate about reconciliation and healing relationships between our indigenous peoples and the descendants of later immigrants and settlers. This is great, but true reconciliation can only come through genuine forgiveness, and ultimate reconciliation between us and God. This song is my prayer. Musically it mixes elements of our indigenous music, and Celtic folk flavoured "bush music"
Songwriter demo (4 track cassette) awaiting definitive vocals.
From many nations our people have come
Searching for their freedom
Beneath a southern sun
We are travellers and wanderers,
We’re convicts in our chains,
And we’re all in this together,
In this land of drought and rain
Some say a lucky country,
I say that God is good,
In giving more than we deserve,
Or ever thought He would,
From the splendour of the outback,
To the mountains and the sea,
Its the nearest thing to heaven,
That a place on earth can be
This is our call to Australia,
To be a holy land,
Underneath the Southern Cross,
Sacred in God’s hand,
To walk together
United in our call,
To stand with Jesus,
Whatever may befall.
The pages of our history
Are guilty and stained,
It’s time to mend some fences,
We need to start again,
With healing and forgiveness
In the power of Jesus blood,
United with each other,
And reconciled to God
This is our call to Australia,
To be a holy land,
Underneath the Southern Cross,
Sacred in God's hand,
To walk together
United in our call,
To stand with Jesus,
Whatever may befall.
Like Simpson on a donkey
Our Saviour has come,
He gave His life a ransom,
To save the fallen ones,
Like the blood that stained the water,
In far Gallipoli,
Sometimes the fiercest battle
Is the price of being free,
This is our call to Australia,
To be a holy land,
Underneath the Southern Cross,
Sacred in God's hand,
To walk together
United in our call,
To stand with Jesus,
Whatever may befall.
- Simpson: Private John Simpson was a medic at Gallipoli, one of the bloodiest battles in World War I. With his donkey he resued injured men from 'no man's land', and brought them back to the trenches for medical aid. Ultimately he paid the price with his own life, for saving many who were otherwise doomed.
- Southern Cross: A dominant constellation in the Southern Sky.
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