Advance Australia Fair (P. D. McCormick)
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- Editor: Stefan Karpiniec (submitted 2000-12-27). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 62 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Advance Australia Fair
Composer: P. D. McCormick
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: Australian National Anthem
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Original text and translations
Note: Usually only the first verse is performed.
English text
- 1879 lyrics
- Australia's sons let us rejoice,
- For we are young and free;
- We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
- Our home is girt by sea;
- Our land abounds in Nature's gifts
- Of beauty rich and rare;
- In hist'ry's page, let ev'ry stage
- Advance Australia fair.
- In joyful strains then let us sing,
- Advance Australia fair.
- When gallant Cook from Albion sailed,
- To trace wide oceans o'er,
- True British courage bore him on,
- Til he landed on our shore.
- Then here he raised Old England's flag,
- The standard of the brave;
- "With all her faults we love her still"
- "Britannia rules the wave."
- In joyful strains then let us sing
- Advance Australia fair.
- While other nations of the globe
- Behold us from afar,
- We'll rise to high renown and shine
- Like our glorious southern star;
- From England soil and Fatherland,
- Scotia and Erin fair,
- Let all combine with heart and hand
- To advance Australia fair.
- In joyful strains then let us sing
- Advance Australia fair.
- Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast,
- Or dare a foot to land,
- We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore,
- To guard our native strand;
- Britannia then shall surely know,
- Though oceans roll between,
- Her sons in fair Australia's land
- Still keep their courage green.
- In joyful strains then let us sing
- Advance Australia fair.
- Current (1984) lyrics
- Australians all let us rejoice,
- For we are young and free;
- We've golden soil and wealth for toil;
- Our home is girt by sea;
- Our land abounds in nature's gifts
- Of beauty rich and rare;
- In history's page, let every stage
- Advance Australia Fair.
- In joyful strains then let us sing,
- Advance Australia Fair.
- Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
- We'll toil with hearts and hands;
- To make this Commonwealth of ours
- Renowned of all the lands;
- For those who've come across the seas
- We've boundless plains to share;
- With courage let us all combine
- To Advance Australia Fair.
- In joyful strains then let us sing,
- Advance Australia Fair.