Kev Carmody - Thou Shalt Not Steal lyrics

In 1788 down Sydney Cove The first boat-people land And they said sorry boys our gain's your loss We gonna steal your land And if you break our new British laws For sure you're gonna hang Or work your life like convicts With chains on your neck and hands And They taught us Oh Oh Black woman thou shalt not steal Oh Oh Black man thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilize Your Black barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide The genocide The hypocrisy to us was real 'cause your Jesus said You're supposed to give the oppressed A better deal We say to you yes whiteman thou shalt not steal Oh ya our land you'd better heal Your science and technology Hey you can make a nuclear bomb Development has increased the size to three million megatons If you think that's progress I suggest your reasoning is unsound You shoulda found out long ago You best keep it in the ground They taught us Oh Oh Black woman thou shalt not steal Oh Oh Black man thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilize Your Black barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide The genocide The hypocrisy to us was real 'cause your Jesus said You're supposed to give the oppressed A better deal We say to you yes whiteman thou shalt not steal Oh ya our land you'd better heal Job and me and Jesus sittin' Underneath the Indooroopilly bridge Watchin' that blazin' sun go down Behind the tall tree'd mountain ridge The land's our heritage and spirit Here the rightful culture's Black And we sittin' here just wonderin' When we get the land back They taught us Oh Oh Black woman thou shalt not steal Oh Oh Black man thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilize Your Black barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide The genocide The hypocrisy to us was real 'cause your Jesus said You're supposed to give the oppressed A better deal We say to you yes whiteman thou shalt not steal Oh ya our land you'd better heal You talk of conservation Keep the forest pristine green Yet in two hundred years your materialism Has stripped the forests clean A racist's a contradiction That's understood by none Mostly their left hand hold a bible Their right hand holds a gun They taught us Oh Oh Black woman thou shalt not steal Oh Oh Black man thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilize Your Black barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide The genocide The hypocrisy to us was real 'cause your Jesus said You're supposed to give the oppressed A better deal We say to you yes whiteman thou shalt not steal Oh ya our land you'd better heal