Dividing You
Author: Daniel Gannaway
Adrift in a boat
Paying for escape
A people in this world so dislocated
Praying you won't sink
With nothing to drink
You're saved somehow by a Norwegian ship
They're sending you wherever they can
Maybe Aotearoa Nauru or some other Pacific Island
Sending you wherever they can
Mr Howard's Aussi government just doesn't want to let you in
Sending you wherever they can
Maybe Aotearoa Nauru or some other Pacific Island
Sending you wherever they can
Mr Howard's Aussi government just doesn't want to let you in
You're hoping for permission to stand
Free in some Van Diemen's land
But gun boats and the military
Stopped you dreaming out at sea
They're sending you wherever they can
Maybe Aotearoa Nauru or some other Pacific Island
Sending you wherever they can
Mr Howard's Aussi government just doesn't want to let you in
Sending you wherever they can
Maybe Aotearoa Nauru or some other Pacific Island
Sending you wherever they can
Mr Howard's Aussi government just doesn't want to let you in
They're dividing you
They're dividing you
Oh it's despicable
They're dividing you
They're dividing you
Oh it's despicable
Adrift in a boat
Paying for escape
A people in this world so dislocated
Copyright September 2001 Daniel Gannaway
http://www.danielgannaway.com/
"The song was inspired
by John Howard and the Australian Government's actions over the 438 Afghan
refugees trapped at sea in September 2001, and the Australian governments
reaction and treatment. The asylum seekers were stranded at sea for more
than a week after the Norwegian ship Tampa rescued them from the sinking
Indonesian ferry they were aboard on 26 August. It took them to Christmas
Island but Australia refused to let them land. They were taken to Papua
New Guinea to be flown to New Zealand and the South Pacific island of
Nauru for the processing of their asylum claims."
Updated: 20 February, 2006
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