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[Verse 1]
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Oh as I walked out by them Oxboroughy Banks
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Where all the maids of Australia do play their wild pranks,
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By a shady green bower I sat myself down,
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Where the birds sang so gaily, enchanting all round
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In the forest of happy Australia,
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In the forest of happy Australia,
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Where the maidens are handsome and gay.
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[Verse 2]
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Well I had not been long in that beautiful scene
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Where all the fields are delightful, the trees evergreen,
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When a pretty fair damsel to me did appear.
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To the banks of the river she quickly drew near,
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She's a native of happy Australia,
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She's a native of happy Australia,
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Where the maidens are handsome and gay.
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[Verse 3]
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Well she took off her clothes and before me she stood
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Just as naked as Venus what come from the flood.
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She looked me in my face and smiling said she,
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“Oh this is the robe that brave nature gave me
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On the day I was born in Australia,
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On the day I was born in Australia,
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Where the maidens are handsome and gay.”
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[Verse 4]
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Then she jumped in the water without fear or dread,
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And her beautiful limbs she exceedingly spread,
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And her hair hung in ringlets, and the colour it was black,
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She cried, “Sir, you can see how I swim on my back
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In the streams of my native Australia,
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In the streams of my native Australia,
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Where the maidens are handsome and gay.”
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[Verse 5]
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But being tired of swimming she come to the brink,
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“Oh assist me kind sir, for I'm sure I shall sink.”
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So like lightning I flew, took her fast by the hand,
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But my foot it did slip, we both fell to the sand
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And I entered the bush of Australia,
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And I entered the bush of Australia,
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Where the maidens are handsome and gay.
[Verse 6]
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So we sported together in the highest of glee,
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In the finest Australia you ever did see.
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Till my head on her beautiful breast did incline
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And the sun in the west all its glories resigned
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And I left this fair maid of Australia,
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Then I left this fair maid of Australia,
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Just as the moon did shine.
