The Newcomers

The Aboriginal people had lived in Australia For sixty thousand years or more Till captain James Cook the British explorer With his crew members landed on shore. And that was back in the seventeen eighties Just over two hundred years ago And the white men have since built great cities Though little else they have to show For two hundred years of occupation Some may look to the past with pride But due to white man's self glorification How many poor natives have died? . To land Cook did not seek permission He did not have a visa in hand And nowadays one must have a visa For to enter this Southern Land. They send home the Asian boat people If they don't have a visa to show Though Cook too had no documentation Just over two centuries ago. The native man on Cook's arrival Did not seem to have any say But white man has made his own rulings And things are much different today. The British of course the main culprits And they always did things their own way For God and their Sovereign and Britain And afterwards the hip hooray. They brought out some British as convicts And they brought out some Irish as slaves And they took from the natives their children But their actions back then caused no waves. And they felt so proud they were British And proud of their true Britishness To come and to claim without asking To conquer, divide and oppress. The white man may have built great Cities But to Nature he's not been a friend He cut down all the old growth forests And brought something great to an end. Many creatures have gone to extinction These creatures can never return Like trying to re-create the paper That you've given the flame for to burn. The thylacine gone to extinction The continent's largest beast of prey And many other species of creature Since white fellow first came to stay. They brought out their cats and their canines To live in the Land of the roo They brought out their hard hoofed mammals And they brought out their wild creatures too. The fox and the mouse and the rabbit The rat and the timid brown hare These creatures not meant for Australia Of that they did not seem aware. They brought out their guns to go shooting They shot and did not seem to care That the creature they'd killed was uncommon And happened to be very rare. Australia may be Governed by white man This Land of the noble gum tree But it's culture is hardly of Europe As it has a black history. The white man has lived here two hundred The black man for thousands of years They only killed creatures they needed And hunted for food with their spears. And the main culprits of course the British And their only idea of success Was to come and to claim without asking To conquer, divide and oppress.