Still We Rise

A wave of change so fast and changed the course of history of my roots

No more life of gathers no more life of nomads a whole new change

Worship in modern attire sit at a table and eat with folks and spoons

Drink from a cup and say prayers to their gods for the food and life they live

Labour from dawn to sunset into the late hours for a bite did sting like bee

Sweat to gain was so tough yet that was life if to survive in one's own land

Voices of freedom echoed far and wide across the land

Reached a group of intellectuals of the land who rose from dust to be the voices of its inhabitants

The powerhouse of democracy for our land they were and they achieved and gained our freedom on the 16th of September 1975

We will produce lawyers we will produce doctors nurses teachers like all other nations was the words that echoed loud and clear that day

Though gone those many voices that made us who we are today we still will rise each day from our fall

For the way is clear as we advance on in life a nation United as one people one nation one country

God bless Papua New Guinea was the pledge that echoed in the past at present and into the future

We will still rise each time we fall for our father of the nation showed us we can