Lyrics

Green and Gold

He made his mark, good business
Supplying car exhausts throughout his land
Australia
Australia
He found his feet Australian green and gold
Australian
Green and Gold

He found his feet through good times
Through decades when our dollar gave a chance
For business
Small business
To get a fair return for working hard
Australian
Yes Australian
Australian
Green and gold

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But then our Aussie dollar raced right past the Greenback
That Yankee doodle-dollar on a drift
So much that Aussie cars with their exhausts became too dear
And structural change was blamed for a shift
That really took ignition from the Aussie interest rate
Too high compared to others all around
Yet still today the Reserve Bank of Australia
Preaches structural change, not giving ground

He'd made his mark, good business
Supplying car exhausts throughout his land
Australia
Australia
He'd found his feet Australian green and gold
Australian
Green and Gold

He'd found his feet through good times
Past decades when our dollar gave a chance
For business
Small business
To get a fair return for working hard
Australian
Yes Australian
Australian
Green and gold

But when our Aussie dollar raced right past the Greenback
That Yankee doodling-dollar on the drift
All those lovely Aussie cars made by devoted Green and Golds
Became too dear for dealers here to shift
This no doubt took ignition from an Aussie interest rate
Staying higher than the countries all around
Yet still today the Reserve Bank of Australia
Preaches structural change, not giving ground

Yeah he'd made his mark, good business
Supplying car exhausts throughout his land
Australia
Australia
He found his feet Australian green and gold
Australian
Green and Gold
Found his feet Australian green and gold
Australian
Green and Gold
Green and Gold
Green and Gold
Australian
Green and Gold

Copyright Gary Woods, March 10th, 2012. APRA/AMCOS Reg: GW44040998