On N A I D O C Week

Since i am a fellow from a far away Land Their culture and ways how could i understand They had lived in their Country for thousands of years Before my kind took from them their land and paid for it in tears I live in and off of their Country is all i can say And respect to them and their culture is all i can pay Such a beautiful race of a proud history And as the first Australians they always will be Australia's first people for so long oppressed By the invader northerners they have been dispossessed The arrival of Cook as time goes not that long ago To them only brought death and suffering and decades of woe So little of their ways i can claim of to know Though my respect for them and their culture it only does grow Their children taken from them unlawfully and though past wrongs cannot be made right In their tunnel of darkness there now is some light For Australia's first people there has been an increase of respect of late And in N A I D O C week their culture they do celebrate Of them and their ways there is much to admire And of singing their praises i never could tire.