Advanced Australia Fair - Australiens Nationalhymne

Australians all, 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 every stage Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing 'Advance Australia Fair.'

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We'll toil with hearts and hands,
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands,
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share,
With courage let us all combine to Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing 'Advance Australia Fair.'

"Waltzing Matilda", by Banjo Paterson

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me."

Chorus:
"Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me;
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me."

(3. Zeile in jedem Chorus austauschen)

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee;
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tuckerbag,
"You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me."

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Down came the troopers -- one, two, three;
"Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag?"
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,
"You'll never catch me alive", said he;
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.