This is another of Monica Brown’s songs that is specific in reference to Australia, but, as I have suggested before, those in the Southern hemisphere often sing songs that are relevant to the Northern hemisphere, so why not sing about the dreamtime in Minnesota.
You can hear it done properly here. You can purchase the collection here.
Verse 1
There is a land, an ancient land.
It bears a vast and rugged face.
Its spirits deep, haunting and free.
It calls to you, it calls to me.
Come find your soul, within my depths.
Come make of me, your homeland true.
Chorus
This is our land, we are its people
A nation that’s free to realise its dream.
A dream that’s for all who dwell in this land.
To live as one people, one people one land.
Verse 2
There is a people, an ancient people.
Their spirits rest deep in this land.
Their dreamtime myth, story and faith,
Make this land a sacred place.
They seek of all a true embrace,
That reconciles all that we are.
Chorus
Bridge
And from distant shores many have come
To find their home in this great southern land
Where the spirit yearns and seeks to unite us all
Chorus
© Monica Brown & Emmaus Productions, 2001.