Gadigal Land

Lyrics

[Chorus: Peter Garrett] Welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal country Welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal land Do you know our story? Welcome to Gadigal land [Verse 1: Peter Garrett] Don't you bring your poison Don't you bring your grog Don't you bring your smallpox Sure to kill our mob Don't you bring your justice Don't you bring your gaols Don't you bring your armies Troopers on our trails [Chorus: Peter Garrett] So welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal country Welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal land Have you heard our history? Welcome to Gadigal land [Verse 2: Peter Garrett] We don't need your convicts We don't need your thieves We don't need your squatters Or your emancipees Don't you dam our rivers Don't you fell our trees Don't you carve our wilderness Don't you net our seas [Bridge: Peter Garrett & Dan Sulton] In the land where time stands still In the land that's in a spell Every day since the day you came is a day of rage It's a day of rage [Chorus: Peter Garett & Bunna Lawrie] Welcome to Gadigal land Wenyo, wenyo, wenyo Welcome to Gadigal land Wenyo, wenyo, wenyo (Hey) [Bridge: Joel Davison] Mudjaru ngaya wunyang Ngandu bayabawai, ngara Ngarawa darayawai, darimi Garamawaimi baya mudjin, wa? Birrongaingun ngarawan Always will be Gadigal land [Verse 3: Joel Davison & Peter Garett] It's unfolding, you're unloading Your high and mighty prison ships It's unfolding, you're unloading Your high and mighty prison ships It's unfolding, you're unloading Your high and mighty prison ships [Verse 4: Joel Davison & Kaleena Briggs] We can live without your muskets We can live without your guns We can live without your strychnine We can live without your rum We can live without your gallows We can do without your chains We can do without the massacres The sorrow and the pain [Outro: Peter Garrett, Bunna Lawrie, Kaleena Briggs, & Joel Davison ] So welcome to Gadigal land Wenyo, wenyo, wenyo Welcome to Wiradjuri land Welcome to Yorta Yorta land Welcome to Arrernte land Welcome to Mirning land Welcome to Gurindji land All of the lands Welcome