And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda chords by
Johnny Mcevoy
Johnny Mcevoy

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Key: A major
Verse 1
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Now when I was a young man,
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I carried my pack
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And I lived the free life of the rover
From the Murray's green basin
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to the dusty outback
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I waltzed my Matilda all over
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Then in 1915, my country said, son,
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it's time to stop rambling,
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there's work to be done
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So they gave me a tin hat
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and they gave me
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And they sent me away to the war
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And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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As the ship pulled away from the quay
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And amid all the tears,
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flag waving and cheers
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And we sailed off for Gallipoli
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It's well I remember that
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terrible day
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When our blood stained the
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sand and the water
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And how, in that hell that
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they call Suvla Bay
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We were butchered like lamb
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s at the slaughter
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Johnny Turk, he was ready,
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oh he primed himself well
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He rained us with bullets
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and showered us with shells
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And in five minutes flat
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we were all blown to hell
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Nearly blew us back home to Australia
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And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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When we stopped to bury our slain
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And we buried ours,
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and the Turks buried theirs
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Then it started all over again
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Those who were living
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just tried to survive
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In that mad world of blood,
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death and fire
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An d for ten weary week
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s I kept myself alive
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While around me the
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corpses piled higher
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Then a big turkey shell
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knocked me heels overhead
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And when I awoke in my hospital bed
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And saw what it had done,
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I wished myself dead
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Never knew there were worse
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things than dying
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For no more I'll go I'll sing Matilda
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All around the green bush, far and near
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For to hunt, tent and pegs,
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a man needs both legs
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No more waltzing Matilda for me
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So now every April I sit on my porch
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And I watch the parade pass before me
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I see my old comrades,
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how proudly they march
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Renewing their dreams of past glory
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I see the old men, all tired stiff and sore
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The weary old heroes of a forgotten war
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And the young people ask,
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what are they marching for?
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And I ask myself the same question
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And the band played waltzing Matilda
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And the old men still an swer the call
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But year after year,
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the numbers get fewer
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Someday no one will march
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there at all.
Waltzing Matilda,
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Waltzing Matilda,
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Oh come
Waltzing Matilda with me.
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And their ghosts may be heard
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As they march by the Pile of Awns
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Who'll come a -waltzing Matilda with me

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