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Australian Lullaby

Key: Am~56 BPMGuitar & Piano chords

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A gentle lullaby inspired by the vast, ancient landscape of Australia — red earth, wide starlit skies, and a stillness that has settled over the land for tens of thousands of years. Aboriginal Australian culture is considered one of the oldest continuous living cultures on Earth, with a presence stretching back more than 60,000 years, and the country’s famous red earth gets its color from iron oxide, rust essentially, embedded deep in the ancient soil that stretches across so much of the continent’s vast interior.

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Verse 1

Am         Dm      Am
Sleep now, little one, the red earth’s gone to rest,
Dm         Am      E7
the stars are out across the sky, the wide land holds you, blessed.

Verse 2

Am         Dm      Am
Sleep now, little one, the wind has stilled tonight,
Dm         Am      E7
tomorrow’s sun will rise for you, but rest now, sleep is right.
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Chords — guitar & piano

Am
x
Guitar
CEA
Piano
Dm
xx
Guitar
DFA
Piano
E7
Guitar
EGB
Piano
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What this song means

Australia is home to hundreds of distinct Aboriginal language groups, each with its own cradle songs passed down for tens of thousands of years — among the oldest continuous song traditions on Earth. Because these lullabies belong specifically to the communities and languages that created them, this song is offered as a general, original tribute to that vast landscape and its ancient sense of stillness, rather than a specific cultural text.

Original lullaby inspired by Australia’s landscape, offered as a general and respectful tribute. Not a translation or representation of any specific Aboriginal language or community’s lullaby.

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Sources & rights

  • Words and melody: see the credits in the text of this page. Older songs are traditional or in the public domain; songs by known authors keep their authors' credit.
  • Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
  • Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
  • Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.

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