The Seekers - I Am Australian [Lyrics] [1080p]

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  • Опубликовано: 24 янв 2015
  • MUSIC: (1995) The Seekers Complete (5 CD Set) CD 4 - Hits, B-sides & 90s, Track 25
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    I came from the dreamtime
    From the dusty red soil plains
    I am the ancient heart
    The keeper of the flames
    I Stood upon the rocky shore
    I watched the tall ships come
    For forty thousand years I've been the first Australian
    I came upon the prison ship
    Bound down by iron chains
    I cleared the land
    Endured the lash
    And waited for the rains
    I'm a settler
    I'm a farmers wife
    On a dry and barren run
    A convict and a free man
    I became Australian
    I'm a daughter of a digger
    Who sought the mother load
    The girl became a woman
    On the long and dusty road
    I'm a child of the depression
    I saw the good time come
    I'm a bushy I'm a battler
    I am Australian
    We are one
    But we are many
    And from all the lands on earth we come
    We'll share a dream
    And sing with one voice
    I am, you are, we are Australian
    I'm a teller of stories
    I'm a singer of songs
    I am Albert Namatjira
    And I paint the ghostly gums
    I'm Clancy on his horse
    I'm Ned Kelly on the run
    I'm the one who waltzed matilda
    I am Australian
    I'm the hot wind from the desert
    I'm the black soil of the plains
    I'm the mountains and the valleys
    I'm the drought and flooding rains
    I am the rock
    I am the sky
    The rivers when they run
    The spirit of this great land
    I am Australian
    We are one
    But we are many
    And from all the lands on earth we come
    We'll share a dream
    And sing with one voice
    I am, you are, we are Australian
    We are one
    But we are many
    And from all the lands on earth we come
    We'll share a dream
    And sing with one voice
    I am, you are, we are Australian
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  • @xtremeslothman6521
    @xtremeslothman6521 3 года назад +1943

    Can this be our national anthem. If you are Aussie and are listening in 2024 you are a true-blue person/ Aussie Australian.

    • @imran19187
      @imran19187 3 года назад +48

      Sorry I’m not watching in 2020 I’m watching in 2021 and I have lived in Australia for about 10 years
      Am I a true blue Aussie?

    • @growrugbyleague6353
      @growrugbyleague6353 3 года назад +46

      @@imran19187 everyone with an australian citizenship is a true blue aussie

    • @melikaclarkson9139
      @melikaclarkson9139 3 года назад +22

      I am fully Australian we love Australia

    • @imran19187
      @imran19187 3 года назад +3

      @@growrugbyleague6353 lol I was joking

    • @SymeonPhronema
      @SymeonPhronema 3 года назад +17

      @@imran19187 I'm an American listening in 2021, and I love Australia!

  • @wehtam4807
    @wehtam4807 4 года назад +127

    I caught a taxi, my driver was a Sheik. He'd been here for 40 years, he still wore his turban and beard but I never met a more patriotic Aussie. That's what makes us great.

    • @kashmonyklik
      @kashmonyklik 4 года назад +20

      May not be a sheikh but a Sikh! Sikhs are known for their courage, honesty, loyalty and dignity.

  • @christinaw.2471
    @christinaw.2471 4 месяца назад +45

    I am an immigrant, I was born in Switzerland. I have now lived in Australia for 35 years, I love this place with all my heart. This song makes me cry, every time, it should be our national anthem, for sure. from all the lands on Earth we come, but we are one.

    • @dougmmm
      @dougmmm 4 месяца назад

      Me too @christinaw, we've been here for 31, love this place, this is home for us. And you're right , we are one!

    • @AmigoWonka
      @AmigoWonka 2 месяца назад

      It should definitely be our national anthem

  • @chuckclark4160
    @chuckclark4160 3 года назад +428

    From America, and from one who has never been to Australia, the song stirs the blood. It would be a great anthem.

    • @baileygreen2324
      @baileygreen2324 3 года назад +5

      Even tho I’m 100% Aussie. I feel like I have more American in me

    • @baileygreen2324
      @baileygreen2324 3 года назад +6

      @Kaisyn HAZER yea just our ppl in general aren’t heart touching than other races. We kinda just say what we want. But for me it’s good but I prefer America cuz of the sports. And the fact u can wear what ever u want to school. I’m our schools we gotta wear uniforms. But I like the school I’m at now cuz everyone calls me timtam, which is an Australian chocolate. I’d love to explain everything but that would literally take me all day but a simple answer is it’s good just the sports and garbage

    • @ReeceAUS.
      @ReeceAUS. 3 года назад +9

      They honestly should make this the national anthem

    • @kristinerowsell3142
      @kristinerowsell3142 3 года назад +8

      This song is for all Aussies from all corners of the earth

    • @lachlanhoskinson8238
      @lachlanhoskinson8238 3 года назад

      @@baileygreen2324 just go then,

  • @keishadoyle7235
    @keishadoyle7235 4 года назад +1129

    I'm an aboriginal Australian and I also strongly believe this should be our anthem

    • @Bibbles_April
      @Bibbles_April 3 года назад +16

      I agree

    • @Ruslan_Osmonov_Australia
      @Ruslan_Osmonov_Australia 3 года назад +22

      I wasn't born in Australia but I'm living in Australia. I'm agree too.

    • @nickalexander4431
      @nickalexander4431 3 года назад +11

      I strongly believe it should be too 👍✊

    • @cmconley33
      @cmconley33 3 года назад +50

      Yes, because unlike “Advance Australia Fair,” this song actually pays some tribute to Indigenous Australians. The current anthem ignores the indigenous population. That’s why I I like NZ’s anthem over our own-it pays tribute to the Maori by having the first stanza sung in Maori.

    • @Dodzfather
      @Dodzfather 3 года назад +7

      Ive thought that since i first heard it as a child very strong song

  • @dadshoe7607
    @dadshoe7607 4 года назад +412

    I’m not Australian, but this should be the national anthem. I can tell why this makes Australians have so much pride.

    • @merrittdeshon6300
      @merrittdeshon6300 2 года назад +16

      Couldn't agree more!

    • @yangkida7100
      @yangkida7100 2 года назад +10

      Couldn’t agree more mate!

    • @Knoxzy_RL
      @Knoxzy_RL Год назад +8

      This should definitely be our national anthem

    • @carmy1313
      @carmy1313 Год назад +6

      I totally agree, Auzzie National anthem.

    • @johnhaggerty1907
      @johnhaggerty1907 Год назад +4

      AMEN. If this doesn't life your spirits I know of nothing would.

  • @skad3601
    @skad3601 3 года назад +137

    I'm Nepalese Australian and it gives me chills everytime I listen to this. Proud to be Australian.

    • @foundhope322
      @foundhope322 10 месяцев назад +5

      I hope one day you refer to yourself as Australian of Nepalese decent. :)

    • @markhill9275
      @markhill9275 9 месяцев назад +4

      You are either Aussie or not. Make up your mind or piss off. Stop dividing Aus by cultural heritage.

    • @markhill9275
      @markhill9275 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@foundhope322goodonya cobber, well said!

    • @raymaersdosch2753
      @raymaersdosch2753 8 месяцев назад +1

      No such thing

    • @jamesfetele7452
      @jamesfetele7452 8 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@markhill9275what a fucked up thing to say. You’re the reason why Australia is divided. Anyone can be proud Australians and also be proud of where they came from originally. Stfu with you nonsense. And if you knew anything you would understand that, what makes Australia, is it diversity. So if you ain’t proud of that, then you clearly ain’t Australian yourself

  • @truonghongtrieu
    @truonghongtrieu 2 года назад +119

    This song should be Australia's national anthem. I can't hold my tears listening to the song and looking back the 7 years I spent seeking to become an Australian, and I am now. I love this beautiful country and its people!

    • @traceyandrew6820
      @traceyandrew6820 Год назад +5

      Happy you are here Trieu very beautiful words.

    • @FelixNothus
      @FelixNothus Год назад +6

      Welcome to Australia, Brother. We are one.

  • @maryannebroadbent1611
    @maryannebroadbent1611 4 года назад +322

    As a very proud Australian living overseas whenever I get homesick I play this song at full volume. I just love it

    • @abdullahsial4657
      @abdullahsial4657 2 года назад +2

      Yesss sameeee

    • @gillbrooks5259
      @gillbrooks5259 2 года назад

      Me too. Itsjust the best song about home 🏡

    • @becktaylor1986
      @becktaylor1986 2 года назад +1

      Stuck overseas due to border closure this gave me renewed hope of getting back home soon

    • @jspee1965
      @jspee1965 2 года назад

      May I ask where you are living Maryanne? I'm in the US and same, I play this to "re-calibrate" from time to time.

    • @ariel_monaco
      @ariel_monaco 2 года назад

      I get homesick too when I listen to this song, and I have never been to Australia in my life, yet

  • @derekgraham5443
    @derekgraham5443 5 лет назад +570

    This song tells, albeit in a short version, a history of Australia. Its struggles, its pride and its strength through its peoples. As a Brit I think this epitomises the Australian spirit.

    • @johnduff-tytler3548
      @johnduff-tytler3548 2 года назад +13

      You , Derek, are Australian, by the fact that you are in Australia.

    • @derekgraham5443
      @derekgraham5443 2 года назад +9

      @@johnduff-tytler3548 never been there in my life but admire the "Aussie" spirit and spark. Nearest I got to Oz was by my wife, a Brit, who spent 3 years in Melbourne in the late 60's.

    • @joachimburford9632
      @joachimburford9632 2 года назад +1

      🤩

    • @ezydenias8505
      @ezydenias8505 2 года назад +1

      @@derekgraham5443 Ever thought about moving there?

    • @monikavolekova127
      @monikavolekova127 2 года назад +1

      Full agree with you :) greetings from Slovakia, from central Europe

  • @mt.g4041
    @mt.g4041 2 года назад +129

    I am Ethiopian Australian love this song i am really very pround being Australian 🙏

  • @dizzy616
    @dizzy616 4 года назад +80

    I'm a Vietnamese immigrant but proudly to call this my home

    • @JohnClarkGaming
      @JohnClarkGaming 3 года назад +15

      No mate you are Australian 🤙

    • @teneale1016
      @teneale1016 2 года назад

      My grandpa fought in the Vietnam War (:

    • @born2tz
      @born2tz 2 года назад +1

      💝

    • @assurpali257
      @assurpali257 2 года назад

      Actually born and bred in Australia dickhead

    • @thesword-sapdog322
      @thesword-sapdog322 27 дней назад

      I'll be down to get some veggies later mate, 😂.
      🤗

  • @erichay1640
    @erichay1640 3 года назад +86

    Listening to this song on aussie day! I am from South Korea and my partner is aussie. It’s been 5 years since I moved to Australia. This song gives me goosebumps. I soon will become an Aussie too!

    • @JayCK-se7uf
      @JayCK-se7uf 3 года назад +14

      As far as I am concerned, if this song gives you goosebumps, you are already Australian :)
      Much love and glad to have you among us ^^

  • @steveowen4560
    @steveowen4560 6 лет назад +236

    Wow! Even as an American, this song, and this group, stirs me. I got a chill go through me when I first heard it.

    • @grasfarmr73
      @grasfarmr73 4 года назад +5

      DITTO

    • @yuiwhite964
      @yuiwhite964 4 года назад +4

      Why don't you visit Australia it's a wonderful place, but come over once covide-19 is over I don't think people over here want more people here right now.

    • @yuiwhite964
      @yuiwhite964 4 года назад

      Oh... Well what do you think of it

    • @daletorrisi4038
      @daletorrisi4038 4 года назад

      its a good representation of australian spirit, its closest youl get to understanding us, unless you become one of us

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 3 года назад +1

      @Steve Owen: As a fellow American, I concur.
      "We are one / And we are many / And from all the lands on Earth we come."
      There is something universal and welcoming in that, which I believe is shared with our own USA; and possibly with many other countries.
      @Yui White: Australia is on my bucket list; it's especially tempting now that it's winter up here and summer down there. But I agree that COVID is making us wait. Wouldn't want to bring that unwelcome visitor to you; and I think up here, we wouldn't want any of us bringing it back from there to here. The vaccines now debuting should put an end to such worries, we hope!
      Fred

  • @jeff-fc9zi
    @jeff-fc9zi 4 года назад +231

    I’m from China.This song moves me to tears.I can feel the Australian spirit from this song.I am very happy to live in Australia for 6 years.People who around me are so warm and I love this beautiful country.

    • @stevenchen5460
      @stevenchen5460 3 года назад +25

      I've been here for 11 years. This is the land that gave me freedom and lots of love. I am an Australian too

    • @jkromah89
      @jkromah89 3 года назад +2

      I been here since I was born 9 years

    • @adeleyinfeifei
      @adeleyinfeifei 3 года назад +1

      Xiexie

    • @itzmeeetheresa4180
      @itzmeeetheresa4180 3 года назад

      你好!我是在这里生的,但我也是中过人!😊👋

    • @ongie9736
      @ongie9736 3 года назад +1

      China's a shit hole, 6year's you say?!,, Your english is better then mine haha..pull my other leg mate 😂🤣

  • @miceppe2442
    @miceppe2442 2 года назад +66

    As Indonesian, I really love so much Australia as our neighbor country, how beautiful this song 🇦🇺

    • @dsnydersa788
      @dsnydersa788 Год назад +1

      I'm australian by the sneakers

  • @yichengliu4470
    @yichengliu4470 5 лет назад +432

    I’m Chinese-Australian, and I’m proud to call this land my home!

    • @bats8712
      @bats8712 4 года назад +31

      me too, long live australians! I am, you are, we are australians

    • @miguelvina7188
      @miguelvina7188 3 года назад +20

      commonwealth forever! im a canadian but this made me feel unknowingly patriotic!

    • @dogeboopdoggo
      @dogeboopdoggo 3 года назад +10

      I am too
      Both parts

    • @kimchi4lifee
      @kimchi4lifee 3 года назад +26

      Me too, I'm Korean Australian but I'm happy to be here in Australia.

    • @athlynbff1691
      @athlynbff1691 3 года назад +4

      Me 2

  • @urizerqelezski2692
    @urizerqelezski2692 6 лет назад +532

    I saw the Seekers on their final appearance in Melbourne and when they sang this the audience all stood and rawed with pride. I believe this represents Australia and I also believe this should be our National Anthem. My opinion only   Happy Australia Day everyone. Be safe and don't drink and drive. 2018.

    • @shayslattery8566
      @shayslattery8566 5 лет назад +3

      Philip E. Represents who we are so much more than advance Australia fair

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      @jasonbradley1513 5 лет назад

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    • @56beverley
      @56beverley 5 лет назад +3

      They 'rawed' with pride? I should think they ROARED with pride!

  • @cassidyreddick2615
    @cassidyreddick2615 4 года назад +186

    My mum comes from Australia and I’m proud to be even just part Australian. This song is one of my favorites because it tells the history of the great country, Australia

    • @monikavolekova127
      @monikavolekova127 3 года назад +8

      You are right, song tells history and music is very nice for mne. I am fan Australia from central Europe. Many greetings from Slovakia .🇸🇰

    • @leondaalderop8553
      @leondaalderop8553 11 месяцев назад +1

      me too

  • @neils5539
    @neils5539 3 года назад +87

    A marvelously moving piece. Makes you want to stand and salute, or wave a flag, or cheer, or cry, and I'm American!

    • @traceyandrew6820
      @traceyandrew6820 Год назад +3

      Yes Neil makes me want to cry with pride especially for my parents who went through the really hard times of WW2 my dad was a Commando & never spoke of it & my mum was an ensign in the Navy both very quietly proud Australians who for their entire life volunteered to help people in need especially our war veterans and gave money & raised money to support Australians in need this was the typical Australian that isn't spoken of in the media we are told to be ashamed of our white history.

    • @traceyandrew6820
      @traceyandrew6820 Год назад +1

      @@andrewrogers5962 it was a harsh world back then & warlike attacking of eachother was common regardless of race it was unjust but the result of differing views colliding and survival but regardless still very harsh and sad times.

    • @An_Aussie_Bloke
      @An_Aussie_Bloke 2 месяца назад

      ​@@traceyandrew6820 Your parents are very good people, you must be proud.

  • @mialanzaderas7370
    @mialanzaderas7370 5 лет назад +64

    I am not Australian but currently living in Australia. So blessed, and proud to live this beautiful country. I love you Australia. First time I heard this song n television, and already made me cry bcoz it has a meaningful words. I am in love with this song ♥️😭 Thank you Australia 🇦🇺🇵🇭

  • @jacobrow4494
    @jacobrow4494 5 лет назад +56

    Lived in Australia for 4 years from year 2 to 5. Had to go back to my home country because the recession hit my family really bad. I’m now living in the US now but the 4 years I spent in this wonderful country is perhaps the best 4 years of my life.

    • @traceyandrew6820
      @traceyandrew6820 Год назад

      That's really beautiful Jacob please feel free to come back. Thankyou & best wishes to you and your family I hope life is better for you now. ❤️

  • @lovejohntaylor
    @lovejohntaylor 4 года назад +6

    I am a very proud Australian citizen with 5 grown up kids and 12 grand kids by now. Came from west Germany 34 years ago, never left Australia since, but drove all arround the coast line (35.000 km over 2 years ) we are the most blessed country on earth. Thank God for that and please let never ever any wars happen here. I love Australia, it has very friendly people, fresh air, fresh water and the best local food in the world !!!

  • @lolimpoorhaha
    @lolimpoorhaha 4 месяца назад +9

    Whenever I hear this song,tears roll down my face. Be proud of an Australian ❤

  • @Bernie86
    @Bernie86 2 года назад +58

    I love you Australia! I'm an aussie in my heart and will hopefully go there one day and if you want me I'll stay. Greetings from Costa Rica! 🇦🇺🇨🇷

    • @seanbayley7452
      @seanbayley7452 2 года назад +8

      Hope U make it here one day m8 that would be a heck of a long flight I'd imagine

    • @jimzafiriou7808
      @jimzafiriou7808 2 года назад +6

      Come over mate, you are welcome, we would love to have you here.

    • @traceyandrew6820
      @traceyandrew6820 Год назад +1

      Your welcome Bernal love you to join us !

  • @thisisbillgates
    @thisisbillgates 3 года назад +661

    As an indigenous Australian, I'd be happy to have this as our anthem. Anythings better than our current one

    • @thisisbillgates
      @thisisbillgates 3 года назад +37

      @@Hat1607 I think just because it ignores indigenous Australians (while mentioning Aussies here via immigration). It's also boring!

    • @thisisbillgates
      @thisisbillgates 3 года назад +5

      @@Hat1607 of course yes

    • @btf_flotsam478
      @btf_flotsam478 2 года назад +7

      @@Hat1607 You do have to admit it is kinda pompous at times. It's not very much in any character I've heard associated with this country to have a national anthem as flowery as "Advance Australia Fair"- we leave that to the wattle.

    • @mackaylacook148
      @mackaylacook148 2 года назад +10

      I agree, this song makes me feel proud to be An Aussie, it feels very Patriotic

    • @jameswilmshurst6973
      @jameswilmshurst6973 2 года назад +10

      @@thisisbillgates I do agree with your first point that the Aussie anthem doesn’t really give proper acknowledgment to its indigenous population, but I wouldn’t call it boring. Compared to other national anthems across the world I wouldn’t call it the best, but definitely top tier

  • @effortmatters6980
    @effortmatters6980 2 года назад +20

    I shed many tears while this song was singing by a girl on the day when I received my citizenship. All those images of different lives running through my heads along with the song. And my whole journey from many hardships and life risking situations to the point of being in that room becoming a nationality of one of the best country in the whole world. It’s just so crazy. I am super grateful and I swore on the spot that I will live my life to the fullest, keep improving and keep on giving. After all, I am Australian!

  • @pngkange6887
    @pngkange6887 Год назад +9

    I am a Papua New Guinean 🇵🇬 but I loved to listen to this song comes from my mother Country- Australia 🇦🇺 ❤ "Respect"

  • @KangazRooBoyz
    @KangazRooBoyz 3 года назад +15

    My father is Tongan but I am born here and proud Australian

  • @armedgoose4508
    @armedgoose4508 3 года назад +19

    This is the best song I have heard in a long time.🇨🇦I’m Canadian but that doesn’t stop me from listening to this masterpiece.

  • @ausyralia
    @ausyralia 2 месяца назад +2

    Sure am. A great Aussie song indeed and The Seekers sure do this song justice.
    RIP our beautiful Judith. Such a pure angelic voice you shared with many. Thanks to the group - The Seekers.❤🇦🇺

  • @SamsaraHealth
    @SamsaraHealth 2 года назад +66

    It couldn’t be a more important time than to sing this song ! 🇦🇺 This song is the PEOPLES CHOICE as the Australian National Anthem!

    • @spectrum1324
      @spectrum1324 5 месяцев назад

      I mean its a good song but i still like advance australia fair over this. Advance is more about progress as a society and trying to improve australia this song is more about comming together from all cultures. I think advance is just has a better premiss of trying to make this country better were all people work together to make australia better for all

  • @FriendlyRambler
    @FriendlyRambler 5 лет назад +142

    Thank you Australia and New Zealand for sending your brave firefighters to Lake County, Ca to help fight the horrendous wildfire that's still burning. You are greatly appreciated!

    • @billturner7363
      @billturner7363 5 лет назад +5

      FriendlyRambler Aussie and kiwis love to help whenever they can. 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇳🇿

    • @1000teresa4ever
      @1000teresa4ever 4 года назад

      The informal ANZUS Treaty!

    • @avahopkins8224
      @avahopkins8224 4 года назад

      FriendlyRambler We here ready to help

    • @billturner7363
      @billturner7363 4 года назад

      Australia is burning right now :((

    • @feilyphang3449
      @feilyphang3449 4 года назад

      It okay I hope it gonna be gone love Australia

  • @johnbxtrp31
    @johnbxtrp31 4 года назад +20

    A beautiful song! God bless all Australians, plenty originating from Scotland .

  • @globesamurai4547
    @globesamurai4547 2 года назад +15

    I cry when I listen to this, I miss home so much as a South African who immagrated to Australia in 1985 Australia became my home, I am a proud Australian living in Japan.

  • @albertlanger2339
    @albertlanger2339 Год назад +15

    -*R.I.P Judith Durham*, who passed away last night 6th August 2022. Of The Seekers, Judith was the female voice. I hope now ALL Australians will now push to get their song as our anthem. We've changed it once 4 decades ago before this correct and short song - Why not now?

  • @tomboyfor_lyfe9300
    @tomboyfor_lyfe9300 4 года назад +44

    I listen to this whenever I'm sad cause it cheers me up that I'm Australian and I'm proud to call myself an Aussie

  • @eugeniaollenburg9643
    @eugeniaollenburg9643 6 лет назад +244

    I am a Russian Australian and proud to live and serve this beautiful country! Long live, Australia!

    • @Joe13313
      @Joe13313 5 лет назад +5

      @@KD-wf3td I Am Full Australian Mate 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

    • @SophiaMoana
      @SophiaMoana 5 лет назад +3

      I'm a new Zealand Australian

    • @mariocarpenzano7271
      @mariocarpenzano7271 4 года назад

      @@SophiaMoana hello

    • @ranscorpio3235
      @ranscorpio3235 4 года назад +1

      LONG LIVE AUSTRALIA

    • @jasminemadden4138
      @jasminemadden4138 4 года назад +1

      i am a kiwi i love your motherland and this nation i also will fight for my brothers and sisters

  • @remielpollard787
    @remielpollard787 2 года назад +13

    I love this song, because not only does it remind people that Australians have been here for tens of thousands of years, but many of us were brought here without much say in the matter as well. Convicts, first nations people, and many settlers, were all treated like second class citizens, if they were treated like citizens at all, by the British Empire.

  • @esleslirons2758
    @esleslirons2758 2 года назад +19

    Bless the Australians, the world is with you, we support you, the song brings tears to my eyes, love you, Esther

  • @apricot8880
    @apricot8880 3 года назад +4

    proud victorian and mate i gotta tell ya that being aussie is the best thing ever. the stories, the bushwalks, the mateship i love it here (also hello to all my mates in pyramid hill, sorry i had to leave your town)

  • @martinmller7410
    @martinmller7410 4 года назад +34

    I live far away from Australia... But this song about the country is just awesome.. I really understand them who wants this to be the National Anthem. The lyrics just tells the complete story. It's so well writen and performed. Just gives me the chills... Thanks.

  • @lenny1767
    @lenny1767 2 года назад +9

    my uncle emigrated to australia from ireland when he was young, i discovered this song a few years back but this is my first time listening to it since he passed. ar dheis de go raibh a anam🇮🇪🇦🇺

  • @kennethjacobus6541
    @kennethjacobus6541 2 года назад +17

    I am retired military, from the United States. The Australians have always been our allies, and I will forever thank you for it.

    • @assassinator7440
      @assassinator7440 2 года назад +1

      Thank you for your service!

    • @kennethjacobus6541
      @kennethjacobus6541 2 года назад +1

      @@assassinator7440 You are very welcome. My daughter married an Australian in the United States, by the way - great guy!!

    •  4 месяца назад +1

      Thank you for your service.

    • @daletorrisi4038
      @daletorrisi4038 3 месяца назад +3

      we are not recognised on the battle field, an australian was put incharge of the entire allied forces in ww1 and won the war but no one outside australia knows his name, he made tank combat obsolite with the introduction of air combat into war tactics but no one outside of australia knows the field commanders name
      but wen we arnt there you miss us, the australians hold a permanent statue in the towns and cities along the rine in france as we went in first and secured the line so america could punch their convys through in ww2, we did all the hard work yet we got none of the glory, vietnam same thing korea same thing afganistan iraq all the same story, we do all the dirty work and get no credit

    • @kennethjacobus6541
      @kennethjacobus6541 3 месяца назад +2

      @@daletorrisi4038 - You are right. General Archibald Murray does not receive the recognition that he deserves.

  • @kiahfindley1545
    @kiahfindley1545 4 года назад +62

    I’m so proud to be Australian and this should be our anthems

  • @stevewilliams3850
    @stevewilliams3850 4 года назад +5

    I'm from the United States of America. I first listened to this song around the first of last week. It's such a beautiful and inspirational song. Very moving. It almost brings me to tears to listen to it. I just love this song. It's already one of my most favorite songs of all time, and my most favorite The Seekers' song.

  • @waynecarterhomes1148
    @waynecarterhomes1148 9 месяцев назад +4

    Bring a tear to a glass eye

  • @codyk7238
    @codyk7238 Год назад +17

    I’m a mixed blood on this land born on Murray land but with Koori blood, Irish, Greek and Asian and I’m proud to say that this song gives me joy to listen too, if my family hadn’t have to hide and we still had our connections I’d be proud to learn of our tribal family and ways. The best part of it was being to volunteer at 4K1G Too Deadly

  • @3vpme2
    @3vpme2 2 года назад +10

    Canadian here, this should be the Aussie anthem

  • @jeramiehourigan
    @jeramiehourigan Год назад +9

    My husband and I love this song very much. We got teary eyes every time we play this and sing at the same time. Such a wonderful song for Australia and tells every thing I think and should be a national anthem too. This play a lot on ABC News every after news break. Love it

  • @JillessJack
    @JillessJack 2 года назад +20

    Never thought to see the day this would become a protest song. Bloody good one too. God bless Australia.

  • @NickiSixx1
    @NickiSixx1 4 года назад +8

    I’v spent 3 years in Victoria, my grandchild is born there in Box Hills. I absolutely LOVE Australia and I agree that this song should be Australia’s anthem

  • @bencu6839
    @bencu6839 4 года назад +150

    This makes me proud to be Australian and I'm British.

    • @traceyp58
      @traceyp58 3 года назад +4

      Me too ❤️❤️

    • @Robbo766
      @Robbo766 3 года назад +2

      If you're not born in Australian, you are not Australian.

    • @bencu6839
      @bencu6839 3 года назад +9

      @@Robbo766 I was not born in Australian that’s for sure (also it was a joke O_O)

    • @mustangsally5426
      @mustangsally5426 2 года назад +13

      @@Robbo766 You don't have to be born in Australia to be Australian. Australia was a British Colony and now its in our Commonwealth and Queen Elizabeth is the Head of state. Clues in the Australian flag mate.

    • @teneale1016
      @teneale1016 2 года назад +5

      @@mustangsally5426 yes. We wouldn't be here today if the British didn't colonize us.

  • @kilotun8316
    @kilotun8316 Год назад +3

    As a Canadian, I'm so happy to have been made so welcome when I visited Australia.

  • @petegorman9547
    @petegorman9547 9 месяцев назад +7

    Listening to this beautiful song in my home country of America 🇺🇸
    God Bless Australia and it’s people 🇦🇺

  • @GreatHornedOwl55
    @GreatHornedOwl55 2 года назад +4

    Canada is my home. My daughter became a proud Australian last year. This anthem speaks to the heart of all the people of Australia. Who would not be proud of it?

  • @pischpilot
    @pischpilot 4 года назад +20

    God bless your Lucky Country. You are such inspirational people. Greetings from a Jewish mate!

    • @pischpilot
      @pischpilot 4 года назад +3

      @Abou Airr I'm not a Zionist, I'm Jewish.

    • @tdb7992
      @tdb7992 2 года назад

      I know someone who moved here from the UK because he's Jewish and he was experiencing a lot of prejudice over there. So he moved here and he loves it. I'm not Jewish myself but I work with many (I'm a doctor) and I've always had Jewish friends. It's sad to see what is becoming of the UK.

    • @jimzafiriou7808
      @jimzafiriou7808 2 года назад

      Love ya mate, God bless Israel, and God bless Australia.

  • @KyleShiflet13666
    @KyleShiflet13666 8 месяцев назад +8

    Im from Texas and I've always taken my hat off to Aussies yalls culture is unique,the land is beautiful,yall stand firmly and willing to defend your homeland to the last man

    • @whocatalogue
      @whocatalogue 8 месяцев назад +2

      I thought you meant Texas QLD for a second haha. And this is quite a lovely comment :)

    • @KyleShiflet13666
      @KyleShiflet13666 2 месяца назад

      ​@whocatalogue thanks hoss I have a co worker who's Australian and my God is he a great mate

  • @kelliecanscan3364
    @kelliecanscan3364 Месяц назад +3

    It’s Anzac Day. And I can’t stop crying. They sacrificed so much for our peace ❤
    I love our country, I love all those who come to stay, I love those who were here for thousands of years before us and are this countries spiritual wise men and women, I love those who we call brothers and sisters, all who wish to be Australian, because it’s not a race or a culture that makes you Aussie, it’s the fact we are all from different places, different colours and cultures- and we all have a story, but we beat with the same heart and this great land just does something to you, it’s great spirit fills you with peace ❤

  • @MrSlickClips
    @MrSlickClips 4 месяца назад +19

    Happy Australia Day
    2024❤️🇦🇺

  • @johntaylor3661
    @johntaylor3661 3 года назад +34

    This song gives me goosebumps I am a strong patriot and this should be our national anthem. I am a proud British Australian

    • @bigt9353
      @bigt9353 2 года назад +1

      So am I, well said mate

  • @carolynyoukhana5039
    @carolynyoukhana5039 5 лет назад +16

    I love this song so much! it brings tears of joy to my eyes every time i listen to this! It makes people feel like they belong! I was born in Australia but my parents weren't. I am proud to call myself Australian! EVERYONE BELONGS!

  • @andrewskinner8560
    @andrewskinner8560 Год назад +11

    RIP Judith Durham forever Australian, forever gifted, I’m forever grateful to live in the days of the Seekers and I’m forever grateful to be Australian.

  • @boojaz
    @boojaz 3 года назад +13

    Bruce Woodley, you are an amazing song writer. Every time I hear this song I get goosebumps. Absolutely amazing.

  • @JEEVY193
    @JEEVY193 6 лет назад +608

    I would be proud to sing this as our national anthem. It pays tribute to our history, celebrates our diversityand unity, and it inspires us to be a truly wonderful place. The only problem would be I'd never be able to get through the bloody thing because it fills me with so much pride it brings tears to my eyes every time I sing it.

    • @moonmaiden71
      @moonmaiden71 5 лет назад +21

      Same here. I absolutely love this song but it makes me bawl my eyes out every time.

    • @andrewmccloud8581
      @andrewmccloud8581 5 лет назад +5

      Roots AND diversity? So Muhammad the Muslim sailed from Plymouth to NSW in 1788? No, he didn't.

    • @thusspakevespasian5587
      @thusspakevespasian5587 5 лет назад +39

      @@andrewmccloud8581 Mate you obviously have never heard of the Afghan Camel Caravans from before they built the trains, or the numerous Chinese people who came here in the Gold Rush, or the Greeks and Italians, or the Vietnamese refugees after the Vietnam War, or the fact that the "British" people who came here likely thought of themselves as English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh before they thought of themselves as White, or the Germans from Prussia who came to Victoria and South Australia, and that's without even mentioning the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clans. Now I don't like mass immigration as much as the next man, but your comment is really fucking ignorant.

    • @andrewmccloud8581
      @andrewmccloud8581 5 лет назад +6

      @@thusspakevespasian5587 Not my point. People with roots from the middle east living in Australia can't celebrate British heritage because they don't have British heritage.

    • @thusspakevespasian5587
      @thusspakevespasian5587 5 лет назад +34

      @@andrewmccloud8581 But no one is celebrating British Heritage, it's a song about Australians, celebrating Australian heritage, only one line in the whole song talks about coming from Britain. Fuck Britain, Australians were already considered and considered themselves a separate culture from the British by 1830.

  • @dinnrinn1916
    @dinnrinn1916 4 года назад +9

    I'm from Indonesia and have been heard this song since 5th grade. When some Australian elementary teachers came to my school. This is truly a great song and makes my heart warms everytime I hear this ✨

  • @Jason-iw7xw
    @Jason-iw7xw 4 года назад +162

    Who else is Australian and listening to this during covid 19?

  • @aussidude84
    @aussidude84 3 года назад +30

    I’m a bushy
    I’m a battler
    I am Australian
    Wonderful lyrics

  • @victorrock1997
    @victorrock1997 11 месяцев назад +17

    What a fantastic and very beautiful song and what a wonderful country and people! Much respect from a great fan of Australia from Romania! God bless Australia! 🇦🇺

  • @altaylor3988
    @altaylor3988 3 года назад +33

    A BIG YES to "I am Australian" being the Australian National Anthem

  • @fransmaroki
    @fransmaroki 2 года назад +39

    as an Australian immigrant who arrived when I was 4 this song made me feel like I belong here, I am glad we were taught it as children.

    • @Azetay67
      @Azetay67 Год назад

      This will never be your home

    • @fransmaroki
      @fransmaroki Год назад

      @@Azetay67 like I care what you have to say loser

    • @sashaboydcom
      @sashaboydcom Год назад +1

      @@Azetay67 What a creepy comment. Ashamed to share a country with you.

    • @jjfitnesschannel1333
      @jjfitnesschannel1333 Год назад +5

      @@Azetay67 yes it is he lives there

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula Год назад

      @@Azetay67 Depends if they treat it like home doesnt it

  • @hopps3206
    @hopps3206 Год назад +5

    Rest in peace, Judith Durham. You've sung a masterpiece that has connected all Australians. You've definitely made this one proud.
    We are one, but we are many. We are Australian.

  • @sherylpleysier977
    @sherylpleysier977 4 года назад +11

    An amazing song. A huge thank you to the Seekers.We have almost completed our trip around Australia and I am so proud to be an Aussie.

  • @loopyluu9302
    @loopyluu9302 5 лет назад +14

    Heard this during a bus tour of Sydney last month. Had to find it and am absolutely delighted to have discovered this here. Thank you for posting this. Every nation needs an anthem like this that each citizen should sing full-throatedly every morning with enormous pride. I

  • @MRC2766
    @MRC2766 4 года назад +10

    I get tears every time I hear this song. Should be our anthem. I would be proud to sing this any day

  • @michellelee5604
    @michellelee5604 4 года назад +6

    I’m live in Australia in Sydney
    Is so many bushfire because thank you 🙏 for Australia
    For South Australia and victoria last year

  • @bridiemcloughlin8326
    @bridiemcloughlin8326 5 лет назад +11

    Love love this song ... I'm a Kiwi but our story is so similar!! (Infact, many of us - including members of my family - were Australian first!!) We need a song like this. Very proud of our ANZAC relationship ... We are whanau!!

  • @loreleihaywood4673
    @loreleihaywood4673 8 лет назад +1916

    This should be Australia's national anthem and it pains me that it isn't

    • @MrInkblots
      @MrInkblots 8 лет назад +35

      +Lorelei Haywood bahahaha "theme song". Do you mean "national anthem"?

    • @rubywebber3635
      @rubywebber3635 6 лет назад +16

      I know right it's darn right stupid I wished it was the national anthem too but it isn't so we should be grateful that we even have a national anthem 👎🏻👎🏻

    • @ashleysmith5700
      @ashleysmith5700 6 лет назад +5

      Lorelei Haywood
      I agree!!!!!

    • @Bobby-cr9yz
      @Bobby-cr9yz 6 лет назад +17

      Lorelei Haywood i agree with you so much. I try not to cry over this song im so proud of our country (exclude politics 😕)

    • @italia689
      @italia689 6 лет назад +9

      Petition it!

  • @sallyparker7367
    @sallyparker7367 3 года назад +10

    Please make this the anthem. It captures Australia so completely. Includes all and celebrated the spirit that is australia.

  • @battle4truth701
    @battle4truth701 2 года назад +5

    Here for the Truckers of Freedom in Australia today! Support from the States

  • @Wolfmyth100
    @Wolfmyth100 8 лет назад +2721

    This should be our National Anthem. So much better than Advance Australia Fair

    • @jackdelsini5633
      @jackdelsini5633 8 лет назад +62

      fuck yeah

    • @Bernie8330
      @Bernie8330 7 лет назад +41

      Could not agree more!

    • @joejohnsonhealth
      @joejohnsonhealth 7 лет назад +18

      I want to sing with you one day Judith and by the way i love your pink angel outfit i want a pink one just like you so we can be angels together

    • @1hunnit136
      @1hunnit136 7 лет назад +41

      Let's petition it!

    • @Twar92
      @Twar92 7 лет назад +14

      So true

  • @nayi3087
    @nayi3087 3 года назад +12

    This song just moves me even though I’m not even Australian. One can already know what Australia is like just from listening to the song, such a well- written one. I’m glad that I’m going to live in such a country full of love and tolerance soon.

    • @e.t.9535
      @e.t.9535 Год назад

      So so right... 'one can already know what Australia is like' from listening to this song! Yes, and so it is.
      Love and blessings to all ❤🙏🇦🇺

  • @tonyhill6424
    @tonyhill6424 10 месяцев назад +2

    I've been saying for more than 30 years that this should be " Australia's National Anthem"❤❤

  • @JohnClarkGaming
    @JohnClarkGaming Год назад +5

    Can you imagine 80 thousand Aussies belting this out at the footy. That 5 minutes would do more for this country than the current anthem has ever done.

  • @glenntroyer
    @glenntroyer 6 лет назад +38

    What a great song! Cheers to our Australia friends! Coming from a guy in the USA

  • @Uatemydoodle
    @Uatemydoodle 4 года назад +25

    I've never considered myself Australia, but this song is absolutely beautiful.
    Even the ads were great.

  • @brucegaskin2666
    @brucegaskin2666 2 года назад +16

    This song makes me proud to be Australian! ❤️

  • @e.t.9535
    @e.t.9535 Год назад +6

    Oh my God... I couldn't stop crying... there is nothing to add but - on the inner plane - this IS the true anthem 🇦🇺
    To an 'all inclusive' Australia day ❤😇🕊

  • @abcdefghi__lmnopqrstuvxyz2018
    @abcdefghi__lmnopqrstuvxyz2018 5 лет назад +59

    The Australians came to our school in East Timor and they teach us how to sing that song
    I’m Timorese btw and we love this song
    Specially in this line “We are one but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come, we’ll share a dream and sing with one voice, I am You Are, we are Australian”
    Even though I’m not Australian but we can be friend😊

    • @clancylefroy3019
      @clancylefroy3019 4 года назад

      (Belated) Happy Independence Day Kim and to all Australia's friends in East Timor.

    • @remielpollard787
      @remielpollard787 2 года назад +4

      You know what's amazing? And I think most Aussies would agree with me on this, but you can be Timorese AND Australian at the same time. For us, it's not so much about where you were born as it is your spirit. Being Australian isn't a geographical thing, or a race thing, it's an attitude one.

    • @Azetay67
      @Azetay67 Год назад

      @@remielpollard787 No you cannot be Timorese and Australian at the same time. Australia was built on a racial policy. The first law passed when we federated was the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, AKA the White Australia Policy.

    • @remielpollard787
      @remielpollard787 Год назад

      @@Azetay67 don't know if you've noticed or not, but it's not 1901 anymore, and those laws were repealed a long time ago, which makes them irrelevant.

    • @Azetay67
      @Azetay67 Год назад

      @@remielpollard787 They are relevant because they were the entire reason we federated and became a nation. The people who made this country what it is all believed in a White Australia. The people who fought and died in WW1 and WW2 were fighting for the British Empire and a White Australia.

  • @akifberjaoui8990
    @akifberjaoui8990 2 года назад +12

    My beautiful home Australia 🇦🇺 we need this as the anthem

  • @virginiahewett8001
    @virginiahewett8001 2 года назад +6

    I play this daily as part of my prayers for our brothers and sisters in Australia. I am American but in these evil times, we are all Australians.

  • @jomitchell6711
    @jomitchell6711 2 года назад +16

    This song stirs a lot of emotion when I hear it. It really needs to be our national anthem. Let's make it happen.

  • @brixsumaoang7567
    @brixsumaoang7567 5 лет назад +10

    I heard this song months before we had a vacation in Australia, almost 2 yrs ago. I would say that this song is heart warming, same with my experience in Australia :) Hope to live in your great country soon...

  • @jimzafiriou7808
    @jimzafiriou7808 2 года назад +6

    Not many songs bring tear to my eye, but this is one for sure, definitely should be our National Anthem. I am, You Are, Were All Australian.

  • @oxyboydie3615
    @oxyboydie3615 3 года назад +2

    I am a 10th generation Australian and i am proud to acknowledge that, Eureka!

  • @v1_Slime
    @v1_Slime Год назад +6

    A teen age of 17 from the islands in the East, proud to be an Aussie and this should be the anthem✊️

  • @fredpayne6260
    @fredpayne6260 2 года назад +5

    Have been to a few of their live performances, & the biggest audience reaction by far, is to this.
    Must become our anthem.

  • @Thomand_OBrien
    @Thomand_OBrien 2 года назад +40

    Petition to make this Australia’s national anthem

  • @chelseahale7981
    @chelseahale7981 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is honestly the best song, that is not satire, about a country.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 4 года назад +59

    The U.S. has _This Land Is Your Land,_ by Woodie Guthrie;
    Canada has _The Railroad Trilogy,_ by Gordon Lightfoot;
    Australia has this song by Bruce Woodley of The Seekers.
    I'm American, and jealous of you Aussies. What a magnificent anthem!
    Fred

    • @rogerbuzacott2648
      @rogerbuzacott2648 3 года назад +4

      I'd humbly suggest Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers as an unofficial Canadian anthem
      And while on this roll, how about Caledonia by Dougie Maclean as Scotland's?

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 3 года назад

      @@rogerbuzacott2648 Northwest Passage is definitely a strong candidate for Canada; I'm an avid Stan Rogers fan, and that's a truly great song, telling of the long-time search for that elusive sea route.
      For Scotland, your mention of Caledonia brings to mind _Ferry Me Over_ by Andy M. Stewart, and its refrain:
      "Ferry me over,
      "Ferry me there,
      "To leave the hills of Caledonia
      "Is more than my heart can bear."
      I'd place that in the running for Scotland.
      For that matter, there's also _Fire in the Glen,_ by the same author. There's a really superb, mesmerizing version of it by a now-defunct female duo of Jennifer Culley and Brooke Parkhurst, that went by the name Clishmaclaver (a name which unfortunately for searching, has been used by others). They were local to the Washington, DC area around the 1990's, and they made some marvelous recordings; that song is on an album titled, "Roots Entwined," from a line in the Si Kahn song, _Luray Women,_ which they also do a top-flight job of, on that album. Unfortunately, due to its relative obscurity, it may not be possible to track down now.
      Fred

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 3 года назад +5

      @AKM Saifuzzoha Chowdhury I didn't mean your *national* anthem.
      There are anthems that aren't officially "national" anthems; an anthem just sings the praises of some country. The other two anthems I mentioned in my main comment aren't national anthems, either.
      Fred

    • @davidzweiban5549
      @davidzweiban5549 2 года назад

      Actually, the US has 'God Bless America' lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and introduced and sung by Kate Smith which should be the US national anthem.

    • @Nathan-tu5kw
      @Nathan-tu5kw 2 года назад +1

      Not our anthem but would be good