Advance Australia Fair
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Advance Australia Fair on Australian kansallishymni, se esitettiin ensimmäisen kerran Sydneyssä 1878. Kansallishymni siitä tuli 1984, jolloin sanoitusta muutettiin vähemmän brittivaltaa korostavaksi. Laulun on säveltänyt ja sanoittanut skotlantilaissyntyinen Peter Dodds McCormick.
[muokkaa] Nykyiset sanat
- Australians all let us rejoice,
- 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 history's page, let every stage
- Advance Australia fair!
- In joyful strains then let us sing,
- "Advance Australia fair!"
- Beneath our radiant southern Cross,
- We'll toil with hearts and hands;
- To make this Commonwealth of ours
- Renowned of all the lands;
- For those who've come across 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!"
