CHARLES BECOMES KING”

…my eulogy to The Queen… and alternative anthem to Advance Australia Fair!


Original artwork by @roger.burgin

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Sweetly she sang, as she laid down to rest

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Rosaries and rites to receive 

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God give to laws, the brand new King

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All of the years I’d wait to send

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Word of how reckoned men

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And all the ladies the same

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A fabled land could end

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All of the Lord’s wars holy

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The prince let his armour fall for all of history to know his heart

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Moonlight, blue-black

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Black dreams to honour
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Red and black, blue or white

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The Sun is only yellow

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I knelt down again, alone in Oz

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To serve before the sword went down to find the shoulder of a child still wed to war

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From Afghanistan to Ukraine

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So swear my oath to fight for life

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Sunset in Australia

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True in breadth and hue

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Our star it sinks like in our throats the passing of the Queen

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Lay down all of your arms to beat the drums

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The sight to see, from far, I came

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To fly the flag aside sea

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Against rolling roar, from Wentworth

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to Rudd we all go to our deaths, but first she.