stop money feature: jazz money

Jazz Money’s poem is currently featured on a $10 Australian note as a part of our Stop Money AR Experience. This special experience only works on your phone, give it try, click here or scan the QR code:

 

STOP MONEY POEM TRANSCRIPT

a dollar in the pocket is worth 10 in patriotic investment 

on these gurt and golden shores

 

in fair australia where we sing australia fair 

for all those who have a fair go get a dollar 

 

unless you’re not so fair and sing that praise song backwards 

or refuse 

that dollar soaked in the blood gold and horror 

of all that this land 

never gave willingly

 

darling

they sent the devil in first when they tried to steal this land

 

and in his hand 

is a golden dollar 

a golden fleece 

a golden promise 

of golden shores

and all that which can be fairly stolen 

 

and darling

in fairness

maybe it’s time we learnt 

that dollar undone

is the song of freedom on these lips

 

and that fairness returns to land where care comes returning 

placed back into ground

that grew all this golden fortune fair


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