You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
Our country's been sold by the powers that be
To big, wealthy nations way over the sea
We couldn't be taken with bayonets and lead
And so they decided to buy us instead
And talking of wars and the blood that was spilled
The widows, the crippled, the ones that were killed
And I often wonder if their ghosts can see
What's happening now to their native country
I wonder if ghosts of the fallen can see
The crime and corruption and vast poverty
With a lost generation of youth on the dole
Adrift on life's ocean without any goal
I once had a dream of our country so grand
Where rivers outback irrigated the land
With dams and canals in that wasteland out there
And big inland cities with work everywhere
The profit from factory, and farming, and mine
Was used to develop a nation so fine
Then I woke from my dreaming to reality
That the wealth of our nation goes over the sea
You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you