WAHWANGU (Barwon)
‘Barkindji call him Ngatchi, Murrawarri call him Mundagutta, we call him Wah Wae, mob further up the river call him Guttya. Same fella. What the whitefellas call ‘Rainbow Serpent’. That Wah Wae is clever because he can talk any language, and you just gotta know what language to talk to him in. And what to call him.’
Language is in the Land
Better rivers in better states!
A better livin’ a better place!
Preparation of better days!
Generation of better ways!
If the Language is in the land, then the rhythm within the word,
If history’s in the song, then I’ll be singin’ it with the birds
They kill a million fish, and our Rivers are barely running,
You ain’t thinkin’ of my community you are swimming up in your money
I’m ‘bout to talk, I hope you’re listening, My people are never givin’ in,
A PSA to the government while I’m running within the riverbed
Tellin’ you it’s a drought, what they rather have you believe,
they manipulating the Country without the knowledge of what it means
I’m sick of watching the Media trynna keep it all under wraps,
I been doing the same thing, through my lyrics I bring it back
It’s difficult to be critical when they’re tedious with the stats,
TV’s a medium of the past, check Wikipedia for the facts,
We gotta call out the cover-up when they sweep it under the mat
with the Treaty and with the Gap, even Leonardo DiCap,
The rivers are runnin’ dry, and nothing livin’ throughout the traps,
From Brewarrina to Menindee I think the system is outta whack
So how depressing is that? Imagine it for the kids,
You’re irrigating illegally I would naturally resistIt’s 2 hundred thousand dollars, that slapping him on the wrist,I feel like slapping him in his face, tell ‘em “that’s for killin the fish!”
