"You Are, You Are, Man Papua Niugini"

They came 50,000 years ago
Island-hopped to these Southern lands.
Only cut off from each other
just 6000 years ago.
They are the Australian Aborigines, Kanaks, ni-Vanuatu, Solomon Islanders and the people from PAPUA NIUGINI.

CHORUS
You are one, you are many, you have lived here in tune with nature’s way, You will progress, with persistence and a ‘PRESS ON’ slogan, You are, you are Man PAPUA NIUGINI.

Oli kam long Hagen 10 dei pinis
Long 6 pikinini balus.
Ol man Orstrelya wea oli intres tru long PNG.
Mother Goose mo Bospela Bill, tupela i gat save tru.
Tupela i lidem yumi gud blong flae albaot long PNG.

CHORUS
You are one, you are many, you have lived here in tune with nature’s way, You will progress, with persistence and a ‘PRESS ON’ slogan, You are, you are Man PAPUA NIUGINI.

Karawari people stood upon the Sepik shore
to watch the flying ships come.
Six high technology visitors
with excellent spirit connections*.
With beauty, peace, goodness, love,
justice, freedom and excellence,
the people of PNG will progress towards prosperity.

CHORUS
You are one, you are many, you have lived here in tune with nature’s way, You will progress, with persistence and a ‘PRESS ON’ slogan, You are, you are Man PAPUA NIUGINI.

* ‘spirit connections’ is used in reference to this most interesting passage from Connolly and Anderson’s FIRST CONTACT (1987), where they write that the Highlanders who first contacted Europeans said: "They obviously had a strong and successful relationship with the spirit world, and it was that relationship that gave them access to and control of enormous wealth, they were men of all things." To me, that spirit relationship in us Europeans is with our intellect, our emotions, our imagination, our hopes and aspirations, our sensations and our intuition.