The First Australians

For to have survived European colonization for them worth a boast To the first Australians we should drink a toast Anthropologists claim their ancestors reached the southern shores sixty thousand years ago And maybe even further back in time for of that how would they know Captain Cook's arrival brought them no joy but tears In twenty with two centuries of years They are pushed to extinction's brink by the colonizing race And in their own Country demoted to a minor place For two hundred and twenty years racism they have known And respect to them it never has been shown Treated as second class citizens in their own Homeland That does seem rather hard to understand The first Australians their praises we should sing As a race they have survived and that is an amazing thing.