This flag of blue and silver stars says we're prepared to die
For our rights to freedom
Beneath the southern sky
The part of those four working men who didn't count the cross
For strong and red forever
Beneath the southern cross
Seventy hours of misery
Fifty weeks of pain
Six days a week a slavery
For some rich buzzers' game
They've found gold in Australia
If rumour has it true
I'll work those seventy hours and more
I'll be rich man too
I've walked two hundred miles
I've fought the rock and climbed
Six days a week a slavery
No luck, no gold, no pay
Still seventy hours of misery
Still licensed tax to pay
I saw the diggers rise a plaque
I heard the diggers said
This flag of blue and silver stars says we're prepared to die
For our rights to freedom
Beneath the southern sky
The part of those four working men who didn't count the cross
For strong and red forever
Beneath the southern cross
And metal guns not shovelled
Four men force defunct
Soldiers came and shove us down
To prove they have the right
And we who carried on despite
Remember what a cost
To raise the true Australian flag
Our flag of southern cross
This flag of blue and silver stars says we're prepared to die
For our rights to freedom
Beneath the southern sky
The part of those four working men who didn't count the cross
For strong and red forever
Beneath the southern cross
This flag of blue and silver stars says we're prepared to die
For our rights to freedom
Beneath the southern sky
The part of those four working men who didn't count the cross
For strong and red forever
Beneath the southern cross