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
Ou
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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Took The Children Away
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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Took The Children Away
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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Took The Children Away
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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Took The Children Away
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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Took The Children Away
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