Dale Robert Huddleston & the Riverbank Band performed Arnhemland Dreams LIVE at the ACT Multicultural Festival in 2020. Check out the live performance and have a sing along.
Lyrics
Sit beneath the Dulbung tree Telling stories to me
Underneath beautiful Arafura Skies
Told me bout when he was a young man
Growing up in Southern Arnhemland
Underneath beautiful Arafura Skies
I know I can’t speak your name
And I know things may never change
I know you‘re where you wanna be
In Arnhemland Dreams, In Arnhemland dreaming
She came from desert country
Born one of a boy and girl twin
In Guringe way only one must live
Left to die in the hot desert sun
Someone saved her
and took her for her own
Way up north the Hodgson Downs
He told me how he’d dived for pearls
All along the northern shelf
Underneath beautiful Arafura seas
The war came and took them away
Off to a very strange place
Far away from beautiful Arafura Sky
25 years on Warragamba Dam When it opened
He shook the princes’ hand
A proud man from Southern Arnhemland
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