Shelter
This is a song by Eric Bogle, a singer-songwriter who was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in Australia. Among other well-known songs he wrote “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
Lyrics
I am drowning in the sunshine
As it pours down from the sky
There is something stirring in my heart
Bright colours fill my eyes
As from here to the far horizon
Your beauty does unfold
And oh you look so lovely
Dressed in green and gold.
And I can almost touch the ocean
Shimmering in the distant haze
As I stand on this mountain
On the loveliest day of days.
Round the world I’ve drifted
Left no wild oats unsewn
But now my views have shifted
And I think I’ve just come home
Ohhhh think I’ve just come home
To the homeless and the hungry
May you always open doors
May the restless and the weary
find safe harnour on your shores.
May you always be my dreamtime place,
My spirits glad release
May you always be our shelter,
May you always live in peace.
May you always live in peace.
Here is a version by the Stringybark Band
