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Canberra is Calling to You - Jack Lumsdaine
Title:
Canberra is Calling to You - Jack Lumsdaine
NFSA ID
584367
Year
1938
A song written and performed by Jack Lumsdaine celebrating Australia's capital city, Canberra.
Lyrics
Like a jewel so rare in a setting that’s fair
A city of white was born
With its gardens of blooms and its fair perfumes
That greet each sunny morn
Australia’s creation the heart of a nation
‘Neath azure skies of blue
Wherever you are, be it near of far
Canberra’s calling to you
Rolling Plains of the south land
Vast and wide and free
Wind swept grass waving restless
Green as the mighty sea
Our great Commonwealth Australia
Founded her new home
From God’s good earth there came the birth
Of our Capital our own
Like a jewel so rare in a setting so fair
A city of white was born
With its gardens of blooms and its fair perfumes
That greet each sunny morn
Australia’s creation the heart of a nation
‘Neath azure skies of blue
Wherever you are, be it near of far
Canberra’s calling to you
Composer and performer
Jack Lumsdaine
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.