## I Fell In Love With This Song The First Time I Heard It.
## Personally I Think It's Actually A Perfectly Written Piece Of Music. Everything In It Is Exactly Right.
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Verse 1
My Mothers And Fathers, They Tended The Land
Brought Forth Food From The Soil With The Knowledge In Their Hands
The Pot Hanging Low Over Peat Fire Ablaze
As It’s Hung Here For Uncounted Lifetimes Of Days
Chorus
And The Fire Went Out In The Morning So Early
We Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The Journey
No Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around Greaulainn
As We Stepped On A Boat Bound For Melbourne
Verse 2
There Are Papers In London That I Cannot Read
Saying The Land I Was Born On Belongs Not To Me
At The Will Of Captain Fraser They Moved Us Aside
Moved Us Outwards Then Upwards Then Away With The Tide
Chorus
And The Fire Went Out In The Morning So Early
We Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The Journey
No Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around Greaulainn
As We Stepped On A Boat Bound For Melbourne
Verse 3
A New Life Was Born And A Young Life Was Taken
On The Boat To Victoria, Storm-Tossed And Shaken
This Land Of Promise Where The Sun Burns Our Eyes
This Land Of Bright Futures, Endless And Dry
Bridge
And The Government Told Us If We Cleared All The Trees
Brought In Horses And Cattle To Keep Back The Weeds
Planted Regular Fields With Familiar Seeds
They Would Give Us The Land To Do With As We Pleased
But The Seasons Were Strange And The Crops Turned To Dust
And The Slabhraidh Lay Fallow And Riddled With Rust
And We Dreamed Of Green Pastures And A Sky We Could Trust
Oh How Far Can A Crow Fly From Greaulainn
Verse 4
Now The Papers In London That I’ll Never See
Say These Wadawurrung Fields Belong Now To Me
There’s Space For My Children, They Will Call It Their Own
But Not Far Beneath The Surface This Isn’t My Home
Chorus
And The Fire Went Out In The Morning So Early
We Took Down The Slabhraidh To Take On The Journey
No Smoke And No Singing Warmed The Air Around Greaulainn
As We Stepped On A Boat Bound For Melbourne
