Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) - No More Boomerang lyrics

No more boomerang, no more spear, Now all civilized colour bar and beer. No more corroboree, gay dance and din. Now we got movies, and pay to go in. No more sharing what the hunter brings. Now we work for money, then pay it back for things. Now we track bosses to catch a few bob, Now we go walkabout on bus to the job. One time naked, who never knew shame; Now we put clothes on to hide whatsaname. No more gunya, now bungalow, Paid by hire purchase in twenty year or so. Lay down the stone axe, take up the steel, And work like a n******g for a white man meal. No more firesticks that made the whites scoff. Now all electric, and no better off. Bunyip he finish, now got instead White fella Bunyip, call him red. Abstract picture now, what they coming at? Cripes, in our caves we did better than that. Black hunted wallaby, white hunt dollar; White fella witch-doctor wear dog-collar. No more message-stick; lubras and lads Got television now, mostly ads. Lay down the woomera, lay down the waddy. Now we got atom-bomb, end everybody.