From the recording The Australian Sessions
Written by Sammy Horner (PRS/MCPS) & Alex Legg (APRA)
Vocals: Sammy Horner, Kylie Horner, BGV: Brian Baker
12 string, electric & slide guitars, piano, bass, drums: Brian Baker
Hand Claps: Brian and Charlie Baker
Notes…I wrote this song with Alex Legg in his little pool house studio about 10 years ago. Another Scotsman living in Australia! Alex and I toured all over Victoria and wrote lots of music together… some of my favourite times down under.
Lyrics
Beneath the biggest sky I’ve seen I stand among my family
No matter what their tongue or tribe, brothers and sisters each one be
Our lives depend upon this truth there’s nothing more and nothing left
We’ll grow a forest full of hope or make our souls a wilderness
Beneath the clouds of pouring rain it falls on me and every man
The sun shines daily on each one in every nation every land
Why cant we see we’re all the same, no matter how we look or dress
We’ll grow a forest full of hope or make our souls a wilderness….
There stands the biggest lie I’ve seen, that hides beneath a nation’s flag
In streets of gold and fields of green the basic right of man denied
We spend tomorrow’s cash today, and rape and rob the treasure chest
We’ll grow a forest full of hope or make our souls, a wilderness
We read and heard enlightened men, a waste of ink, a waste of breath
We’ll grow a forest full of hope or make our souls a wilderness