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Two Strong Arms
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-Eric Bogle
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In the still heat of the afternoon
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Kritos was laid to rest
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In the dry and dusty red soil of Australia
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As the Mulberry and Cypress bloomed
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Beneath the mountain crests
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So far away in Macedonia
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The children of his heart
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And the children of his blood
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In sorrow and in silence
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And in pride, around him stood
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All his sons and daughters with
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Their daughters and their sons,
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The Family of the man with two strong arms
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Born a peasant's son on a mountain farm
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Where a thin and grudging earth
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Made hunger a gray ghost at every meal
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Where life was just a grinding stone
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Of poverty and death
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That crushed young and old alike
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Beneath the wheel
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So before the wheel could turn
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With his family and his wife
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Kristos came down from the mountains
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Searching for a better life
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Bringing only hopes and dreams with him
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To the distant southern land
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And a brave and willing heart,
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And two strong arms
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In a West Australian country town
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Kristos found a job
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For men willing to work hard
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And bend their backs
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Cutting the lofty gum trees down,
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Clearing brush and scrub
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Where speaking English mattered less
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Than a good sharp axe
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Driven by his dreams
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As the hard years came and went
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Kristos bent his back to every
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Daylight hour that got sent
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How many golden wheat fields grow?
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How many western farms?
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The rich harvest of the man
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With two strong arms
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He worked to keep his family fed and clothed
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To give his kids the chance
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For them to try and be all they could be
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So that unlike him they'd never know
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The chains of ignorance
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Or taste the bitter bread of poverty
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He wanted them to have
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All the things he'd never had
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And if all that took was blood and sweat
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He'd give both and be glad
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He lived to watch his children grow
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And match their father's dreams
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All it took was love and pride
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And two strong arms
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In the still heat of the afternoon
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Kritos was laid to rest
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In the dry and dusty red soil of Australia
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As the Mulberry and Cypress bloomed
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Beneath the mountain crests
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So far away in Macedonia
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The children of his heart
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And the children of his blood
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In sorrow and in silence
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And in pride, around him stood
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All his sons and daughters with
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Their daughters and their sons,
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The Family of the man with two strong arms
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The Family of the man with two strong arms
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