Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Thou Shalt Not Steal, artist - John Butler Trio. Date of issue: 16.09.2007
Song language: English
Thou Shalt Not Steal |
| 1788 down Sydney cove |
| The first boat people land |
| Sorry boys our gains you loss |
| 1788 down Sydney cove |
| The first boat people land |
| Sorry boys our gains you loss |
| We’re gonna steal your land |
| And if you break our new British law |
| Be sure your gonna hang or work your lives like our convicts |
| With a chain on your neck and hand |
| And they told us |
| Woah black man thou shalt not steal |
| Woah black man not shalt not steal |
| With your science and your technology |
| You going make a nuclear bomb |
| A population has increased they are going make |
| A three million mega ton |
| And if you think that’s progress |
| I suggest your reason is unsound |
| You should have found out long ago |
| You better keep it in the ground |
| And they |
| Woah blak man thou shalt not steal |
| And black man thou shalt not steal |
| We’re gonna civilize your black barbaric lives |
| And we’ll teach you how to kneel |
| Job and me and Jesus Sittin underneath that Indooroopilly bridge |
| Watchin «that blazin» sun go down |
| Behind a tall tree’d mountain ridge |
| The land’s of heritage and spirits here |
| The rightful culture’s black |
| And we’re Sitting here just wondering |
| When we gonna get our land back |
| And they |
| Woah black man thou shalt not steal |
| Woah black man thou shalt not steal |
| We’re gonna civilize your black barbaric lives |
| And we’ll teach you how to kneel |
| But your history couldn’t hide the genocide |
| The hypocrisy that was real |
| For your Jesus said you’re supposed to give |
| The oppressed a better deal |
| When you talk of conservation |
| Keep the forest pristine green |
| But in 200 years your materialism |
| Has stripped the forest clean |
| And a racist contradiction |
| That’s understood by none |
| Left hand hold the bible |
| And the right hand hold’s the gun |
| And they |
| Woah black man thou shalt not steal |
| Woah black man thou shalt not steal |
| We’re gonna civilize your black barbaric lives |
| And we’ll teach you how to kneel |
| But your history couldn’t hide the genocide |
| The hypocrisy that was real |
| For your Jusus said you’re supposed to give |
| The oppressed a better deal |
| We say to you |
| Yes our land thou shalt not steal |
| Woah our land you better heal |
| Yes our land thou shalt not steal |
| Woah yes our land you better heal |
| Woah our land thou shalt not steal |