Kerrianne Cox: Music

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This is about the government policy of taking light skinned Aboriginal children from their homes and putting them in homes and with families away from their cultures. This policy was finally stopped in the 1970's. The is the the topic of the movie "Rabbit Proof Fence".

Stolen children who's mothers cried,
for her long lost children
'til the day she died.
She longed to know her children were alright.
She longed to hold her children so very tight,
and to tell them all of their dreaming.
The way it is right to live on the land
to give a guiding light,
to dance and sing
and to do all those things that mothers and children do
to learn the ways of the tribe, the bush, the land and sea
and so to survive.
My baby she cries, my baby remembers me.
My baby she cries, my baby remembers me.
One day you will be back,
i know you will remember.
One day you will be back,
i know you will remember.
The day she died she only asked one thing,
don't forget my baby, my stolen baby.
They will have grannies for all you to see,
for the children have become the next generation
who will come back home to find their identity
(chorus)
stolen, stolen children stolen, stolen, stolen, stolen