whenever i first came out to australia  i brought two pairs of dms  and three pairs of jeans  a ticket to australia  with a head full of dreams  and there was tears at the airport  and i wrote a letter on the way  and i stopped off in singapore  but only for a day  but i  never meant to stay no  it was only meant to be for  for a holiday  oh but i've  i've overstayed now  and i pray now  for an amnesty  the plane landed in at botany  on a day that was very hot  and this time the irish had invaded the place  without having to fire a shot  and i went to the hotel bondi if you know it  and bought a schooner of new  and sitting drinking it in the sun  that's when i knew  but i  never meant to stay no  it was only meant to be for  for a holiday  oh but i  i've overstayed now  and i pray now  for an amnesty  two hundred years ago they were  shippin' us out  nineteen eighty-eight they were  flyin' us back  there's no guards or chains  a-keepin' me here  but if they caught me  they'd probably send me back  but i  never meant to stay no  was only meant to be for  for a holiday  oh but i  i've overstayed now  and i pray now  for an amnesty  i had a backpack  but i just ended up gettin' a job  i never got round to travelling  i just hit the grog  then i moved to the suburbs  and i got married, with a kid  i've got rms instead of dms now  the jeans no longer fit  but i  never meant to stay no  was only meant to be for  for a holiday  oh but i  i've overstayed now  and i pray now  for an amnesty