Murrigeejar Mob - Hands Up Lyrics

Yaama yinarr gulga bula
Yaama murri gulga bula
Mara-dhi, mara-dhi

Hands up - get up - stand up - show up

You've all heard the first world war
But have you heard of the war that came before
Aborigine vs England in the Frontier War
1788 to 1934

And I don't know if you've heard this story
When they wouldn't let us in the bars at Moree
Way back in 1965
And just like Charlie Perkins on his Freedom Ride

We gotta hands up - get up - stand up - show up

There came the '67 Referendum
Where white people vote for us to be human
We were classed as flora and fauna
Still today we fight for our honour

Then the Great Australian Silence
Rang out across the nation
So did our voices yelling self-determination
A cult of lies that you fail to see
The atrocities of the past that you have caused me

Hands up - get up - stand up - show up