Our National Song ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR Words and Music by PETER DODDS McCORMICK ('AMICUS')(1834 - 1916) Australia's sons, let us rejoice,For we are young and free; We've golden soil and wealth for toil,Our home is girt by sea. Our land abounds in Nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In hist'ry's page let ev'ry stage Advance Australia fair. Chorus In joyful strains then let us sing,'Advance Australia Fair'. When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd To trace wide oceans o'er True British courage bore him on Till he landed on our shore Then here he raised old England's flag The standard of the brave; With all her faults we love her still Britannia rules the wave. Chorus In joyful strains then let us sing,'Advance Australia Fair'. While other nations of the globe Behold us from afar We'll rise to high renown and shine Like our glorious southern star From England, Scotia, Erin's Isle Who come our lot to share, Let all combine with heart and hand To advance Australia fair. Chorus In joyful strains then let us sing,'Advance Australia Fair'. Should foreign foe e'er sight our Coast Or dare a foot to land, We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore To guard our native strand. Britannia then shall surely know, Beyond wide ocean's roll Her sons in fair Australia's land Still keep a British soul. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN God save our gracious Queen,Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen: Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us; God save the Queen: O Lord our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics,Frustrate their knavish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all. Thy choicest gifts in store, On her be pleased to pour; Long may she reign: May she defend our laws, And ever give us cause To sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen. THE SONG OF AUSTRALIA There is a land where summer skies Are gleaming with a thousand dyes, Blending in witching harmonies, in harmonies; And grassy knoll and forest height Are flushing in the rosy light, And all above is azure bright:- Australia! Australia! Australia! There is a land where honey flows,Where laughing corn luxuriant grows, Land of the myrtle and the rose, land of the rose; On hill and plain the clust'ring vine Is gushing out with purple wine, And cups are quaffed to thee and thine Australia! Australia! Australia! There is a land where treasures shine Deep in the dark unfathom'd mine, For worshippers at Mammon's shrine, at Mammon's shrine: Where gold lies hid and rubies gleam , and fabled wealth no more doth seem The idle fancy of a dream- Australia! Australia! Australia! There is a land where homesteads peep From sunny plain and woodland steep, And love and joy bright vigils keep, bright vigils keep: Where the glad voice of childish glee Is mingling with the melody Of Nature's hidden minstrelsy- Australia! Australia! Australia! There is a land where, floating free,From mountain top to gurgling sea, A proud flag waves exultingly, exultingly, And Freedom's sons the banner bear; No shackled slave can breathe the air, Fairest of Britain's daughters fair- Australia! Australia! Australia ! Caroline Carlton. Railways Institute Magazine, May--June, 1977 I I