I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains   I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame   I stood upon the rocky shore   I watched the tall ships come   For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.      I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains.   I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.   I'm a settler.   I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run   A convict then a free man I became Australian.      I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode   The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road   I'm a child of the depression   I saw the good times come   I'm a bushy, I'm a battler   I am Australian      [chorus]   We are one, but we are many   And from all the lands on earth we come   We share a dream and sing with one voice   I am, you are, we are Australian      I'm a teller of stories   I'm a singer of songs   I am Albert Namatjira   I paint the ghostly gums   I am Clancy on his horse   I'm Ned Kelly on the run   I'm the one who waltzed Matilda   I am Australian      I'm the hot wind from the desert   I'm the black soil of the plains   I'm the mountains and the valleys   I'm the drought and flooding rains   I am the rock, I am the sky   The rivers when they run   The spirit of this great land   I am Australian      [chorus]   We are one, but we are many   And from all the lands on earth we come   We share a dream and sing with one voice   I am, you are, we are Australian      We are one, but we are many   And from all the lands on earth we come   We share a dream and sing with one voice   I am, you are, we are Australian