And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda chords by
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Key: Gb major
Verse 1
D
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When I was a young man
I carried me pack
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D
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G
G

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An d I lived the free life of
A
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a rover
D
D

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G
G

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From the Murray's Green Basin
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to the dusty out back
D
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G
G

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I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 darkened trees said son
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G
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It's time to stop rambling
there's work to be done
And they gave me a tin hat
and they gave me a gun
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F#
F#

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And they sent me away to the war
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D
D

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G
G

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An d the band played Waltzing Matilda
C#m
C#m

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G
G

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As our ship pulled
away from the quay
Amidst all the cheers,
D
D

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G

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flag waving an d cheers
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G
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We sailed off to Gallipoli
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How well I remember that terrible day,
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how blood stained the
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G
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sand and the water.
And how in that hell that
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G
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day called Stugla Bay,
we were butchered like lambs at
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the slaughter.
Johnny Turkey was ready,
he'd primed himself well.
He chased us with bullets,
he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat
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he blown us all to hell
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Nearly blew us right back to Australia
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G

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But the band
C#m
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played Waltzing Matilda
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G

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As we stopped to bury our slain
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G

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D
D

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We buried ours and the Turk
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s buried theirs.
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Then we started all over again.
Now those that were left,
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well, we tried to survive
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in a mad world of death,
blood and fire.
And for ten weary weeks
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I kept my self alive,
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though around me the
corpses piled higher.
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Then a big turkey shell
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knocked me arse overhead
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when I woke up in
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me hospital bed.
I seen what it had done
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G
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and I wished I was dead.
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Never knew there were worse things
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than dying.
For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda,
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G
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all around the green bush far
and near.
That a hump and ten pegs,
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a man needs both legs.
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G
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No more waltzing Matilda
for me.
So they collected the crippled,
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the wounded, and maimed,
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An d they shipped us
back home to Australia
The legless, the armless,
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the blind and insane
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Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into South Killarkey
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I looked at the place where
me legs used to be
And thank Christ there was
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no one there waiting for me
F#
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Bm
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G
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To grief and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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As they carried us down
the gangway
But nobody cheered,
they just stood and stilled
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Bm
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G
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Then they turned all their faces away
And now every April
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I sit on my porch
D
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G
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And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades
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how proudly they march
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Renewing old dreams and past glories
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G
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And the old men march slowly,
old bent, stiff and sore,
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G
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the tired old men from a forgotten war,
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,
and the band played
Waltzing Matilda,
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and the old men answer the call
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Bm
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G
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But year by year the numbers
get fewer
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Someday no one will
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march there at all
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Waltzing Matilda,
Bm
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Waltzing Matilda
G
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Oh, will come a waltzing Matilda with me
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And the ghosts may be hailed
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as they pass by the billabong
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Bm
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Oh, come a -waltzing Matilda with me

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