Frontier... What Frontier chords by Midnight Oil

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Verse 1

The catch was in the last phrase

Settlers would, themselves, define if Aborigines occupied land

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Interlude 1

Verse 2
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What is to be the interpretation of the word occupied,
is the question
It is not occupied according to any
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law regulating possession
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Which is recognised by civilised
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people

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I had collected all my worn-
out children's clothes
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And dressed them like children in them
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We gave them some fireworks,
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and an immense bonfire
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With which they were
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highly delighted
And finished by the blacks amusing
us with their corroborees
Which are the oddest exhibition
you can conceive

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The interpreter told us
They were describing the first ship
that arrived in Holdfast Bay
And the landing of good white men
And the good biscuits they got
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in Adelaide

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Verse 5
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Sir, I have this evening perused
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an account
Of the progress of an Aboriginal mission
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And I certainly conceive it to be one
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of the most glaring
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And oppressive outrages on the public funds

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The hatred, with which

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the white
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man regards the black
That feeling results from fear
From the strong physical contrast
which intercept the sympathy
Which subsists between men
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of the same race
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From the proud sense of superiority
From the consciousness of having
done them great wrongs
And from the desire to escape
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this pain of self reproach
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By laying the blame