White Man - Steeleye Span

Some sing of their glory

Few tell the true story

Most men they don’t need it

White man he kills for it

They took to the seas

Searching for a land that they could call Paradise

Stealing the breeze that carried them towards the sun

With lust in their eyes and a gun in their hand

They said we’ve found Paradise

Think of the glory look at the prize we’ve won

We know who they were

They were the ones who killed their brothers

To steal from others

We know who they were

They were the ones whose sons and daughters

Are doing it still

And in their hearts what did they feel?

Did they think they had the right to steal

Another man’s land who had no name?

O they didn’t think he’d feel the pain

So they sailed away from their own country

To another man’s land far across the sea

And they stole that land from the people there

And they called that land Australia

Why did he do it

White Man?

They sailed away one winter’s day

To a sunlit land that was far away

And they stole that land from the people there

And they called that land America