Will you look out your window at the cold grey dawn Seven o'clock on a Monday morning Pour a cup of coffee, better make a strong one Well the man on the radio says it's gonna bake and it's gonna blow But it'll be alright, be alright, be alright, alright Australia marched out of Vietnam Out in the streets against Uncle Sam Who won the fight? It was a long one Radiant demo the other day One of my mates got dragged away They slammed the door, I heard her say It'll be alright, it'll alright An Italian bloke who works with me Swab a laugh, some company And he sat me on the back and said, wrong song It isn't the land I was told it would be It's not so equal and not so free But it'll be alright, be alright, be alright in the long run It'll be alright, be alright, be alright in the long run From the shadow of history a convict screams Shearer's curse, the people dream We've taken some right turns and taken some wrong ones When the troop ships leave and the headlines blaze Australia remembers happier days And the faith lives on in the haze It'll be alright, be alright So you sit in your camp and you stare at the fire And the doubts drop away as the hope gets higher And you sing to yourself it'll be alright, be alright in the long run And the sun gives ground to a long cold night And you screw up your courage for another fight But you know in your heart it'll be alright, be alright in the long run It'll be alright, be alright, be alright in the long run It'll be alright, be alright, be alright in the long run It'll be alright, be alright, be alright in the long run