The January Man

Welcome now a visitor to your shores
Following a dream I can’t ignore
From a distant land you may never know
Of sun and rain and snow
Here where the endless skies reach for the sun
The gum trees stand like the oaks of Albion
And the land sings in lines of ancient song
For the soul to sing along

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And the Southern Cross shines down
On where I stand
And I hear the voices from
The Singing Land
Here where the land still is king
Beneath red sand the ancestors are dreaming
And a mother knows which song must me sung
When a new life has begun
A Serpent made a path across the land
Formed the rivers and mountains where they stand
These songs are in the Kookaburra’s call
But she’s laughing at us all
Oh can you feel me dreaming
Oh can you feel me dreaming
Oh can you feel me dreaming, oh
Familiar stars now shine from up above
I’ve returned to the land that I love
But my heart must try to understand
It’s now shared by another land
Beneath the plough I look to the setting sun
As I stand once more on the land of Albion
But the Southern Cross will guide me to your shore
To hear you sing once more
Oh I can feel you dreaming
Oh I can feel you dreaming
Oh I can feel you dreaming, oh