
The back-block corner reeks of eastern spices
Arab sin and ancient vices
Comes at a cost in all sorts of prices
You can guess why but there are no prizes
Sydney heat can’t squelch the Imam
The sights of Karachi via a taste of Vietnam
Where oh where does the rainbow end
A multicoloured place where they all pretend
Here to prosper, here to test you
Another born, another Celestial
Dialects per-thousand pound the human ear
Even the white girls are black around here
Even the straight ones, they’re all queer
Once upon a distant sky
A Hills hoist twirls in a boyhood sigh
In a country lucky for them who sink
An averted eye, a knowing wink
The cost for this mighty land so dear
Even the White girls are black around here
I know you know you will buy
All those slices of this sunburned pie
Cross my eyes if I should die
And say a rhyme that they may hear
Even the White girls are black around here
The city edges are a place to fear
The daylight wanes and the cultures change
Every aspect of everything strange
Once were brolgas out on the planes
Now the Leb is swerving lanes
A supercharged dryer in its highest gear
Even the White girls are black around here
Even the clock stops twice a day
Every last one of you gets to pay
In and out in a one-way stream
Say bye-bye to the national dream
It’s an outline now on a crowded beach
A best-left memory just out of reach
It’s a wave broken on a stretch of surf
Once was yours when it was your turf
No amount of footy cheer
Will make the girls any Whiter around here
Not even a full-strength beer
The girls are blacker than soot around here
Whoah!!! Powerful!