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Oh the Cross of deepest blue	A
With the bright stars shining through	A
That was raised my sons for you	A
On a skirt of purest whiteness long ago	B
Long ago	B
Long ago	B
On the field of far Eureka long ago	B
	-
Oh the girl that sewed the silk	C
Blue as skies and white as milk	C
Jeanie Scotland of that ilk	C
In the hut there by Eureka long ago	B
Years agone	D
Auld Lang Syne	D
With her young dead digger sweetheart on Eureka long ago	B
	-
Oh the prayer the diggers said	E
With the Southern Cross o'erhead	E
It is whispered by the dead	E
In the graveyard by Eureka whispered still	F
Whispered still	F
Murmured still	F
By the shades that haunt Eureka murmured still	F
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Oh the brother and the mate	E
In the bonds of love and hate	E
Ah the help that came too late	E
When the diggers marched from Creswick to the dawn	D
Years agone	D
Long years gone	D
Oh the midnight march from Creswick to Eureka and the dawn	D
	-
Few and taken by surprise	G
Oh the mist that hid the skies	G
And the steel in diggers' eyes	G
Sunday morning in September long ago	B
And they grapple and they strike	H
With the pick handle and pike	H
Twenty minutes freed Australia at Eureka long ago	B
	-
For the leader won his crown	D
Though the flag was trampled down	D
For it rose in Melbourne town	D
Oh it rose in Melbourne city that same year	I
With a clear	I
Ringing cheer	I
Oh it floated high in Melbourne that same year	I
	-
When the London strikers starved	E
While old England's roast was carved	E
And our loaf with them was halved	E
Then they bore our flag through London wreathed in flowers	J
Wreathed in flowers	J
Wreathed in flowers	J
In the dreary streets of London brightest spot in those dark hours	J
	-
They have stained it mongrel red	E
And the stars are dull and dead	E
With a northern cross instead	E
Oh the bloodstain like a red star long ago	B
Long ago	B
Long ago	B
Oh the red star that was bloodstain on the goldfields long ago	B
	-
We're divided we are curst	E
By the paltriest and worst	E
Parties striving to be first	E
But the shots from far Eureka echo yet	E
Echo yet	E
Echo yet	E
And they rattle round my window in the wet	E
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Flag and banner of my dreams	K
The time is not as it seems	K
And the tide of freedom streams	K
With the spirit of the people over all	L
We shall raise the bright flag yet	E
Ne'er to falter or forget	E
And 'twill go through many battles ne'er to fall	L

Henry Lawson

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