Text of Scanned Images of Advance Australia Fair ~191x Sheet Music
("Sung by the great choir of 10,000 voices at the inauguration of the Commonwealth. The first music performed by the massed bands after the naming of the Federal Capital of Australia, Canberra".)
Photograph of Peter Dodds McCormick, composer of Advance Australia Fair
(image scanned by Jennifer Burgess as part of her research into the composer. Image relates to
the jubilee history of the Five Dock public school.
Peter Dodds McCormick taught there in 1865-66.)
- From the National Library of Australia Music Collection: http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/musicoll.html
For we are young and free.
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea.
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In hist'ry's page, let ev'ry stage
Advance Australia Fair
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair.
When gallant Cook from Albion sailed.
To trace wide oceans o'er.
True British courage bore him on.
Til he landed on our shore
Then here he raised Old England's flag.
The standard of the brave.
"With all her faults we love her still."
"Britannia rules the wave."
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair.
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross.
We'll toil with hearts and hands,
To make our youthful Commonwealth
Renowned of all the lands;
For loyal sons beyond the seas
We've boundless plains to share,
With courage let us all combine
To Advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair.
Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast.
Or dare a foot to land,
We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore
To guard our native strand.
Britannia then shall surely know,
Beyond wide oceans roll
Her sons in fair Australia's land
Still keep a British soul.
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair.
