Waltzing Matilda chords by
Terry Dean

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Key: A major
Verse 1
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C C 
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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 a rover
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From the Murray's green basin
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C C 
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to the dusty outback,
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A A 
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G G 
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I waltzed my Matilda all over.
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G G 
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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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cause there's work to be done
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D D 
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G G 
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so they gave me a  tin hat
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G G 
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and they gave me a gun
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G G 
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and they sent me away to the war and
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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the band played Waltzing Matilda
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G G 
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D D 
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As we sailed away from the quay
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And amidst all the tears
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G G 
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and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off for Gallipoli
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G G 
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How will I remember that terrible day
When the blood stained the
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G G 
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sand and the wa ter
And how in that hell
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C C 
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that they call Suvla Bay
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D D 
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We were butchered like lamb
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s at the slaughter
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Johnny Turkey was ready,
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he primed himself well
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D D 
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He shared us with bullets,
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G G 
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and he rained us with shells
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And in five minutes flat,
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he'd blown us all to hell
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G G 
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Nearly blew us right back to Australia
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G G 
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And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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As 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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G G 
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And it started all over again
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Now those who were living
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did their be st to survive
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In that mad world of dust, blood and fire
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And for seven long weeks
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G G 
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I  kept myself alive
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Saw the corpses around me pile higher
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Then a big turkey shell knocked
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G G 
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me a  sober tip
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C C 
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G G 
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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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Christ I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse
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G G 
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things than dy ing
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G G 
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And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
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To the green bushes so far and near
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For to hang tens and pegs
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and my knees to legs
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No more waltzing Matilda for
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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me
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D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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So they collected the cripples,
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the wounded and maimed
And they shipped us back
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G G 
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home to Australia
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The legless, the armless,
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the blind and insane
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Those proud,
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wounded heroes of Southland
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C C 
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And as our ship pulled into circular quay
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D D 
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I looked at the place where
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G G 
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me legs  used to be
And thank Christ there was
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G G 
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nobody waiting for me
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G G 
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To grieve and to mourn and to pity
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G G 
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And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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As they carried us down the gangway
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But nobody cheered,
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they just stood and stared
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G G 
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And they turned their faces away
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G G 
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And now every April I sit on my porch
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G G 
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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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G G 
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Reliving the dreams of past glory
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C C 
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I see the old men all twisted and torn
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C C 
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The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
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C C 
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And the young people ask me
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what are they marching for
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And I asked myself the same question
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G G 
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And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
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And the old men still answer the call
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But year after year their num
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bers 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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Ooh, got my Waltzing Matilda
Outro 1
with me
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