Archie Roach

Native Born Albert Namatjira

Archie Roach

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Native Born Albert Namatjira

	  		
E                        A 
Albert Namatjira painted not so much the things he saw 
    E                                                  B7 
But what he felt inside and how he loved the Flinders Range 
    E                             A 
The only thing he ever wanted the reason that he painted for 
         E                             B7               E 
Was that everybody share the dream his land would never change 
                                                A 
Ah But change it did and through the years they introduced some foreign plants 
  E                                                        B7 
Familiar things are strange while strangers play upon the lawn 
    E                                  A 
And mother land has shed her tears for lives that never stood a chance 
    E                          B7                    E 
And Albert Namatjira cried, as we all cry the Native Born 


   B7                             A 
So bow your head old eucalypt and wattle tree 
  E                 B7           E 
Australia's bush is losing it's identity 
          B7                                   A 
While the cities and the parks that they have planned 
                                               E 
Look out of place because the spirit's in the land 
     A                                         E 
Look out of place because the spirit's in the land 


                                 A 
Do you remember Joseph Banks who stood upon this sacred earth 
    E                                             B7 
And what he felt inside when he looked around and saw 
    E                                   A 
the land to whom we give our thanks our mother land who's given birth  
   E                                 B7          E 
To trees and plants and animals he'd never seen before? 


   B7                             A 
So bow your head old eucalypt and wattle tree 
  E                 B7           E 
Australia's bush is losing it's identity 
          B7                                   A 
While the cities and the parks that they have planned 
                                               E 
Look out of place because the spirit's in the land 
     A                                         E 
Look out of place because the spirit's in the land 

                                     A 
But no one knows or no one hears the way we used to sing and dance 
    E                                                         B7 
And how the gum trees stood and stretched to greet the golden morn 
    E                                     A 
and mother land still sheds her tears for lives that never stood a chance 
    E                         B7                    E 
And Albert Namatjira cried as we all cry the native born 
   B7             E 
We cry the native born 
		  

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