Birth of Bennelong

Bunde-Bunda
Wogultrowe
Boinba
Woolarawarre
Bennelong

Wangal

Gura – Wind
Garagula – Tide
Magura – Fish
Bunda - Sea Hawk
Badangi – Oyster

Observation Smell

Gana – wiri – Smell bad
Mubaya wawi - Speak unknown language
Ngana Djarabawawi - Who musket people
Minyin gayiri nula - Why bring here people
Beereewalgal - from afar?
Wadyiman beerewagal - Whiteman, people from afar
Djaraba – musket
Nguwing Yilabara - Night time Now
Nanag - Sleep
Wangal Nguwing Yilabara - Night time Now
Wanya Yinyun - Lie down
Nangamnai – Dream

Rewind

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it came and split the world
it came in ships
their sails like whips
it came and broke
broke the world
like ships
with whips
it broke the world
the world
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It dragged him from the sea
Into the colony
no longer free
took this male
taught him jail
fish fishing from the sea
colony into the
no longer free free
male jail took from the sea

Responding

The natives stay around
like pesky flies
-
ah
Move away
Move boys move
Smallpox gets them and
they're down for the count
-
ah
Say Away Bannelon
Bado bado' they cry out
loud
Move away
Move boys move
Watero water with the
fever they die
Say Away Bannelon
The blackfella head is
rough and wolly
Move away
Move boys move
Is it t
he hair or something
Animal
Say Away Bannelon
Will not wash and will
not work
-
ah
Move away
Move boys move
All of the savages
sitting in the dirt
-
ah
Say Away Bannelon
The blackest eyes And the longest
lashes
Move away
Move boys move
Can’t say why but the beauty strikes me
Say Away Bannelon
Move away
Move boys move
Say Away Bannelon

Onslaught

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Smallpox leaves its mark
Its mark it leaves
Crimson dark
Graves lined with grass
Crimson dark

Resistance

NGU-RA EORA - Land People
WANGAL ORA - Wangal People
NAH – DJI BIR-RONG - BAH EORA - Belong Always People
NAH DJI|BOOL - BOOL-WOOL - Strong
DJUR-RA – Fight

Rejection

I lie low
I nestle in the soil
I am the soil
I sink into the earth
My spirit lifts into
Into the air
Are you , Are you, Are you
A fighter?
A collaborator?
A victim?
A survivor?
An idealist?
A realist?
What is the cost of curiosity?
Taken hostage?
Should I resist the system?
Or work with it?
Damned if you do.
Damned if you don’t.
Set up to fail.
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
I am Bennelong
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
I am Bennelong
Are you, Are you, Are you, Are you
A fighter?
Are you...
I whisper, hunt quietly
I whisper, hunt quietly
The courage
The endurance
The dignity
I whisper, hunt quietly
I whisper, hunt quietly
I whisper, hunt quietly
Are you, Are you, Are you, Are you
A fighter?
A collaborator?
A victim?
A survivor?
An idealist?
A realist?
Are you , Are you, Are you, Are you
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
Are you A fighter?
I am Bennelong
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
A survivor?
An idealist?
I am Bennelong
a realist?
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
I am Bennelong
Some days I feel like I’m Bennelong
I am Bennelong
Are you, Are you, Are you, Are you
A fighter?
A collaborator?
A victim?
A survivor?
An idealist?
A realist?
I am clay, hardened by hope,
Softened by dreams

Crown

GAYGAWI GAYGAWI
BENNELONG
NGURA

Ngaya Babana Yemmera - My Brother Yemmerawanne
Walana Muru Ngindu Njura - Follow Path to your home

Repatriation

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Returned Bennelong
Savage still, ravaged till
he was between it
Yemmerawanne died
Yemmerawanne died of it
Courage, distant world
It

Missing dead
No hands
No head
Skulls to compare
Skin and scars
Parts in jars
Under glass
Under glass desecrated
Hearts in jars
Spirits under glass
Bone and hair
Teeth from the mouth of grief
And is their missing dead?
Without their hands and head
Without their skin and scars
Their body parts in jars
Their spirits under glass
Skulls taken to compare
Samples of bone and hair
And initiated teeth
Pulled from the mouth of grief
From the mouth of grief
From the mouth of grief

1813

Woolawarre
Woolawarre
Bennelong Ngyini - You
Birung Wangal Ngura – Belong Country
Woolawarre
Bennelong Ngyini - You
Birung Birung - Belong Belong
Wangal Ngura - Counrty
Darragoon - River
Darragoon Ngayiri Warrangu Mi - River Carry Farm Cove
Darragoon - River
Darragoon Ngayiri Warrangu Mi - River Carry Farm Cove
Beanga - Father
Babana - Brother
Mullamamng - Husband
Gabami - Intermediary
Gamara Gamarada – Ally, Friend
Yura Beereewangal – Eora People from afar