Tonart: Gb major
Verse 1
D
G
When I was a young man
I carried me pack
Bm
D
G
An d I lived the free life of
A
G
a rover
D
G
From the Murray's Green Basin
Bm
to the dusty out back
D
G
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 darkened trees said son
Bm
G
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
Bm
F#
And they sent me away to the war
G
D
G
An d the band played Waltzing Matilda
C#m
G
As our ship pulled
away from the quay
Amidst all the cheers,
D
G
flag waving an d cheers
Bm
G
We sailed off to Gallipoli
Bm
How well I remember that terrible day,
Bm
G
sand and the water.
And how in that hell that
Bm
G
day called Stugla Bay,
we were butchered like lambs at
G
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
Bm
G
he blown us all to hell
Bm
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
C#m
played Waltzing Matilda
G
As we stopped to bury our slain
C
G
D
We buried ours and the Turk
Bm
G
Then we started all over again.
Now those that were left,
Bm
well, we tried to survive
G
in a mad world of death,
blood and fire.
And for ten weary weeks
Bm
I kept my self alive,
corpses piled higher.
D
Then a big turkey shell
G
knocked me arse overhead
I seen what it had done
Bm
G
and I wished I was dead.
Bm
Never knew there were worse things
G
than dying.
For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda,
C#m
G
all around the green bush far
and near.
That a hump and ten pegs,
D
G
a man needs both legs.
Bm
G
No more waltzing Matilda
for me.
So they collected the crippled,
Bm
the wounded, and maimed,
back home to Australia
The legless, the armless,
Bm
the blind and insane
G
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into South Killarkey
Bm
G
I looked at the place where
me legs used to be
And thank Christ there was
Bm
no one there waiting for me
F#
Bm
G
G
To grief and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
A
G
As they carried us down
the gangway
But nobody cheered,
they just stood and stilled
Bm
G
Bm
G
Then they turned all their faces away
And now every April
D
G
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades
Bm
how proudly they march
G
Renewing old dreams and past glories
Bm
G
And the old men march slowly,
old bent, stiff and sore,
Bm
G
the tired old men from a forgotten war,
and the young people ask
Bm
what are they marching for,
G
G
and I ask myself the same question,
and the band played
Waltzing Matilda,
D
and the old men answer the call
G
Bm
G
But year by year the numbers
get fewer
G
Oh, will come a waltzing Matilda with me
Bm
And the ghosts may be hailed
G
as they pass by the billabong
G
Bm
Oh, come a -waltzing Matilda with me
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