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The future was dark and the past was dead	A
As they gazed on the sea once more	B
But a nation was born when the immigrants said	A
Good bye as they stepped ashore	B
In their loneliness they were parted thus	C
Because of the work to do	D
A wild wide land to be won for us	C
By hearts and hands so few	D
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The darkest land 'neath a blue sky's dome	E
And the widest waste on earth	F
The strangest scenes and the least like home	E
In the lands of our fathers' birth	F
The loneliest land in the wide world then	G
And away on the furthest seas	H
A land most barren of life for men	G
And they won it by twos and threes	H
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With God or a dog to watch they slept	I
By the camp fires' ghastly glow	J
Where the scrubs were dark as the blacks that crept	I
With nulla and spear held low	J
Death was hidden amongst the trees	H
And bare on the glaring sand	K
They fought and perished by twos and threes	H
And that's how they won the land	K
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It was two that failed by the dry creek bed	A
While one reeled on alone	L
The dust of Australia's greatest dead	A
With the dust of the desert blown	L
Gaunt cheek bones cracking the parchment skin	M
That scorched in the blazing sun	N
Black lips that broke in a ghastly grin	M
And that's how the land was won	N
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Starvation and toil on the tracks they went	O
And death by the lonely way	P
The childbirth under the tilt or tent	O
The childbirth under the dray	P
The childbirth out in the desolate hut	Q
With a half wild gin for nurse	R
That's how the first were born to bear	S
The brunt of the first man's curse	R
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They toiled and they fought through the shame of it	T
Through wilderness flood and drought	U
They worked in the struggles of early days	V
Their sons' salvation out	U
The white girl wife in the hut alone	L
The men on the boundless run	N
The miseries suffered unvoiced unknown	L
And that's how the land was won	N
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No armchair rest for the old folk then	G
But ruined by blight and drought	U
They blazed the tracks to the camps again	G
In the big scrubs further out	U
The worn haft wet with a father's sweat	W
Gripped hard by the eldest son	N
The boy's back formed to the hump of toil	X
And that's how the land was won	N
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And beyond Up Country beyond Out Back	Y
And the rainless belt they ride	Z
The currency lad and the ne'er do well	A2
And the black sheep side by side	Z
In wheeling horizons of endless haze	V
That disk through the Great North west	B2
They ride for ever by twos and by threes	H
And that's how they win the rest	B2

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