Thou Shalt Not Steal - John Butler Trio

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