Text of Scanned Images of Advance Australia Fair from 190-? (Rev. and improved ed.)
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 and http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6012195
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 evry 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.
While other nations of the globe
Behold us from afar,
We'll raise to high renown and shine
Like our glorious southern star;
From England, Scotia, Erin's isle.
Who come our lot to share,
Let all combine with heart and hand
To Advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains, etc
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, etc
