Protest Song Lyrics

8/6/2019 Protest Song Lyrics

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Protest Song Sing-a-longStage 3


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Beds are burningMidnight Oil


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Beds Are Burning

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t where the river brokeThe blood wood and the desert oak

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels

Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair's fairTo pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact's a fact

It belongs to themLet's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning


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Beds Are Burning

The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoosFrom Kintore East to Yuendemu

The western desert lives and breathes

In forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair's fairTo pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact's a fact

It belongs to them

Let's give it back


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Beds Are Burning

How can we dance when our earth is turningHow do we sleep while our beds are burningHow can we dance when our earth is turningHow do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come

To say fair's fairTo pay the rent, nowTo pay our shareThe time has come

A fact's a factIt belongs to them

We're gonna give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turningHow do we sleep while our beds are burning


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They took the children awayArchie Roach


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Took The Children Away

This story's right, this story's trueI would not tell lies to youLike the promises they did not keep

And how they fenced us in like sheep.

Said to us come take our handSent us off to mission land.Taught us to read, to write and prayThen they took the children away,Took the children away,The children away.Snatched from their mother's breastSaid this is for the bestTook them away.


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The welfare and the policemanSaid you've got to understand

We'll give them what you can't giveTeach them how to really live.

Teach them how to live they saidHumiliated them insteadTaught them that and taught them this

And others taught them prejudice.You took the children awayThe children awayBreaking their mothers heartTearing us all apartTook them away


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One dark day on FraminghamCome and didn't give a damnMy mother cried go get their dadHe came running, fighting mad

Mother's tears were falling downDad shaped up and stood his ground.He said 'You touch my kids and you fight me'

And they tookus from our family.Tookus awayThey tookus awaySnatched from our mother's breastSaid this was for the bestTookus away.


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Told us what to do and say

Told us all the white man's ways

Then they split us up again

And gave us gifts to ease the painSent us off to foster homes

As we grewup we felt alone

Cause we were acting white

Yet feeling black


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One sweet day all the children came backThe children come backThe children come backBack where their hearts grow strongBack where they all belongThe children came backSaid the children come backThe children come backBack where theyunderstandBack to their mother's landThe children come back


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Back to their mother

Back to their father

Back to their sister

Back to their brotherBack to their people

Back to their land

All the children come back

The children come back

The children come backYes I came back.


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JailbreakYothuYindi


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Jailbreak

There was a friend of mine on murderThe judge's gavel fellJury found him guiltyGave him sixteen years in hell!

He said "I ain't spending my life here,I ain't living alone,

Ain't breaking no rocks on the chain gang,I'm breakin' out, headin' home.

Im gonna make a jailbreakAnd I'm lookin' towards the sky!I'm gonna make a jailbreakOh, how I wish that I could fly!


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Jailbreak

All in the name of lib-er-ty

All in the name of lib-er-ty

Got to be free!

Jailbreak, ..let me out of here!

Jailbreak, ..yeah


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Jailbreak

He said he'd seen his lady being fooled withBy another manShe was down and he was upHe had a gun in his hand

Bullets started flying everywhereAnd people started to scream!Big man lying on the groundWith a hole in his bodyWhere his life had beenBut it was -


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Jailbreak

All in the name of lib-er-ty!All in the name of lib-er-ty!To set me free!

Jailbreak, had more than I can take!JailbreakI got to break out of here


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Jailbreak

Heartbeats they were racin

Freedom he was chasin

Spirits dying

No use trying

But he made it out

With a sheet around his neck!

Jailbreak jailbreak. Jailbreak jailbreak

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