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 64 An' they're singin', still they're singin', to the sound uv guns an' drums, As they sung one golden Springtime underneath the wavin' gums.

When they socked it to the Southland wiv our sunny boys aboard— Them that stopped a dam torpeder, an' a knock-out punch wus scored; Tho' their 'ope o' life grew murky, wiv the ship 'ead over turkey. Dread o' death an' fear o' drownin' wus jist trifles they ignored. They spat out the blarsted ocean, an' they filled 'emselves wiv air. An' they passed along the chorus of "Australia will be There."

Yes, they sung it in the water; an' a bloke aboard a ship Sez 'e knoo they wus Australians be the way they give it lip— Sung it to the soothin' motion of the dam devourin' ocean Like a crowd o' seaside trippers in to 'ave a little dip. When I 'eard that tale, I tell yeh, straight, I sort o' felt a choke; Fer I seemed to 'ear 'em singin', an' I know that sort o' bloke.