Austraila's on the Wallaby
Our fathers came to search for gold
The mine has proved a duffer
From bankers, boss and syndicate
We always had to suffer
They fought for freedom for themselve
Themselve and mates to toil
But Austrails's sons are weary
And the billy's on the boil
Chorus
Australia's on the wallaby
Just listen to the coo-ee
For the kangaroo he rolls his swag
And the smu shoulders bluey
The boomerags are whizzing round
The dingo scratches gravel
The possum bear and bandicoot
Are all upon the travel
The cukoo calls the bats and now
The pigeon and the shag
The mallee-hen and platypus
Are rolling up their swaq
For the curlew sings a sad farewell
Beside the long lagoon
And the brolga does his last-way waltz
To the lyrebird'd mocking tune
There's tiger-snakes and damper, boys
And what's that on the coals?
There's droughts and fl;oods and ragged duds
There's dried-up waterholes
There's shadeles trees and sun=scorched plains
All asking us to toil
But Australia's sons are weary
And the billy's on the boil