Carrington Cabaret Lyrics - Singles - Redgum

Are you proud white Australians wherever you are? 

Beer in your hand and your elbow on the bar 

All you people from Darwin to the south 

With your blue faded jeans and a joint in your mouth 

Young sophisticates making the scene 

At the Lion Hotel in your rolled up jeans 

Something going on, we're all employed 

Last night another pickininny died 

In the dirt filled gutters on the cold concrete 

At the nightclub end of Hindley Street 

Sit dusky young ladies learning the rules 

From drunks and traps and the hard knocks school 

Milky brown eyes from drinking all day 

Till it's time at the Carrington Cabaret 

Down at the port a sick black mum 

Rings for a taxi but the taxi won't come 

It's probably too painful for us to understand 

But two hundred years ago we overran their land 

Dreamtime's just a nightmare now, an alcoholic sleep 

Australia land of things to do have you got time to weep 

Oh our great free land of fire and rain 

White man's wealth and black man's pain 

You've got to be white if you want to get in 

It's the black man's country but the white man's in 

Too utter distasteful for civilized man 

Hide them away in Arnhem Land 

Shake your head and say "That's that" 

As you kick away the bottles on Pinky flat 

It's probably too painful for us to understand 

But two hundred years ago we overran their land 

Dreamtime's just a nightmare now, an alcohol sleep 

Australia land of things to do have you got time to weep