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Treborlang
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2000 - Republic Bid 2000In nineteen hundred and ninety threeHands still tightly on the reins, PM Keating makes a decision To bid for the Republican Games. After an approximate costing, A makeshift model made to scale, The ex-Treasurer feels certain His heart-felt bid just cannot fail. He offers Australians at large, Ultimate judges of his bid, A seductive presentation That now no longer need be hid. 'If your life's without rewards, If you're living just on schemes, Now we've something to works towards, We'll pour concrete in our dreams. 'Now we will show the entire world, We'll become one big powerhouse and Standing up on our own free feet Hold the Republican Games 2000! 'We'll turn the whole of Australia Into one humungous stadium, For our Republican regalia Will run for a whole millennium. 'We'll wrestle with our identity And fence with iconoclastics, We'll have synchronised flag-waving And political gymnastics. 'We'll leap Presidential hurdles And pole-vault across the throne, We'll run around in Asian circles And bravely dive through the unknown.'
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