www.kevcarmody.com.au/news.html Film clip for a song from Kev`s great 1989 album "Pillars Of Society". To buy any of Kev`s music and for lots of other information visit..... www.kevcarmody.com.au/news.html THOU SHALT NOT STEAL In 1788 down Sydney Cove The first boat-people land 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 CHORUS 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 3,000,000 megatons But 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 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 You talk of conservation Keep the forest pristine green Yet in 200 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

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