Das große Südland

The Great Southland
(ein Lied, das mir in meiner ersten Zeit in Australien 2002 sehr wichtig geworden ist)


This is our nation, this is our land
This is our future, this is our hope.
A land of reaping, a land of harvest
This is our land, this is our home.

This is the Great Southland
Of the Holy Spirit
A land of red dust plains
And summer rains
To this sunburnt land
We will see a flood
And to this Great Southland
His Spirit comes.

This is our nation, this is our land
This land of plenty, this land of hope.
The richest harvest is in her peoples
We see revival, the Spirit comes.

This is our nation, this is our land,
This „lucky country“ of dreams gone dry.
And to this people we see a harvest
And to this land, revival comes.

Geoff Bullock, 1991

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