Gadigal Land

Joel Davidson, Kaleena Briggs, Bunna Lawrie, Midnight Oil, Dan Sultan

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (also known informally as "The Oils" to fans), were an Australian alternative rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. While vocalist Peter Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an advertisement for a spot in Farm, and by 1975 the band was touring the east coast. By late 1976, Garrett moved to Sydney to complete his law degree, and Farm changed its name to Midnight Oil by drawing the name out of a hat. more »


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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

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

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

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

In a 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

Welcome to Gadigal land
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!
Welcome to Gadigal land
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!

Mudjaru ngaya wunyang
Ngandu bayabawai, ngara
Ngarawa darayawai, darimi
Garamawaimi baya mudjin, wa?
Birrongaingun ngarawan
Always will be Gadigal land

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

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

So welcome to Gadigal land
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!
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All of the lands
All welcome

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Written by: Bunna Lawrie, Joel Davison, Robert Hirst

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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