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"Ibrahim"
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-Eric Bogle
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(Album: The Colour of Dreams)
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Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia?
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Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder?
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As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour
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But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
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So Ibrahim, can you tell me, why did you come here?
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What dream were you chasing and what did you hope to find here?
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Did you flee from your own native land because your life was in danger?
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Or were the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
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Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
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Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
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You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been meaning to tell you
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Being hungry and poor bestows no special status upon you
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We won't send you back, if you can prove they'd imprison or kill you
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But if you're just going back home to starve, I'm afraid we can't help you
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You see Ibrahim, you've become a bit of a problem
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This world's full of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression
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So to take in queue-jumpers like you, well it's out of the question
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It would give the world's hungry and poor the wrong impression
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Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
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Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
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I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid
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You had Buckley's chance* right from the moment you landed
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Already to many a threat and a danger you were branded
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And all because you follow the prophet Mohammed
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You didn't count Ibrahim, on political opportunism
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Our leaders knew that to many Australians, the very word "Muslim"
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Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and terrorism
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And that's why you and your family are locked up in prison.
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Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture
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Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
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So Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia?
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Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder?
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As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour
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But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
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Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
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NOTE:
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"Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism meaning "no chance what'soever".
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The phrase came into use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain.
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