The Band Played Waltzing Matilda chords by
The Aussie Bush Band

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I  was a young man, I carried a  pack
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And I lived the free life of the rover
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From the Murray's Green Valley
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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, when the country set sail
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It's time to stop for oil
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and there's work to be done
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So they gave me a tin hat,
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gave me a gown
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Then 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 amidst all the tears,
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all the flag -waving, the cheers
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Well, we sailed off to Gallipoli
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Oh, well, I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained
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the sand and the wa ter
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How in the hell that they called Silver Bay
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We were butchered like lambs
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to the slaughter
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Johnny Turkey was waiting,
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he frightened himself well
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Rained us with bullets
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and shelled us with shells
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But in ten minutes flat, blown us to hell
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He nearly blew us right back to Australia
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But the fan played Waltzing Matilda
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As we stopped to bury this land
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And as we buried ours,
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all the Turks buried theirs
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Then we started all over again
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Those that were left, well,
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we tried to survive
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In a mad world of death, blood and fire
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And for nearly ten weeks
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I kept my self alive
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Though around me
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the corpses piled higher
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Then a big turkey shell
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knocked me ass out of bed
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When I  woke up in my hospital bed
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Well, I saw what I'd done,
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I wished I was dead
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I never knew there were
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worse things than dy ing
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For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda
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All around the wild bush far and  wide
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Bought to hump tents 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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They gathered the sick
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and the crippled and mine
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They sent us back home to Australia
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The armless, the legless, blind, the insane
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All the brave, wounded and silver
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And when our ship pulled into Circular Quay
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I looked at the place that
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my legs used to be
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And I thanked goodness
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there was no one for me
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For to mourn, to grieve and to pity
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But the band played Waltz and Matilda
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As they carried us down
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the gangway
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Nobody cheered,
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they just stood there and stared
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And then they turned their faces away
And so every April
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my old comrades march
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Reviving old pains and past glories
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And I push my wheelchair out onto the porch
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And I  watch the parade pass before me
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The old men march slowly,
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all bound stiff and sore
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Dying old men from 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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Then I asked myself
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the same question
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Then the band played Waltzing Matilda
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As the old men responded to the call
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And as year follows year
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more old men disappear
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Someday no one will march there
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