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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Now
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when I was a young man,
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I carried me pack
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and lived the free life of the roller.
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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 it's time
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you stopped ramblin' there's work to be done
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So they gave me a tin hat
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and gave me a gun
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and they marched 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 cheers,
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flag waving an d tears
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We sailed off to Gallipoli
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And how well I remem
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ber that terrible day
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How our blood stained the
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sand and the water
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And of how, in that hell that
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they call Suvla Bay
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We were butchered like lambs
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at the slaughter
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Johnny Turk, he was waiting,
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he'd primed himself well
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He showered us with bullets
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and he rained us with shell
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and in five minutes flat he blown us to hell
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nearly blew us back home to australia
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but the band played a waltzing matilda
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when we stopped to bury our slain
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We buried our mates,
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the Turks buried theirs
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Then we started all over again
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And those that were left,
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well we tried to survive
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In that mad world of blood,
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death and fire
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And for ten weary weeks I
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kept my self alive
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Though around me the
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corpses piled higher
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Then a big Turkish shell
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knocked me arse overhead
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And when I woke up in the hospital bed
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And saw what it had done,
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I wished I was dead
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Never knew there was worse
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things than dy ing
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For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda
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All around the green bush, far and free
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But a -huntin' pigs,
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a -man needs both legs
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No more waltzing Matilda for me
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So they gathered the crippled,
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the wounded and maimed
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And they shipped us back
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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 wounded
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heroes of Suvla.
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An d as our ship pulled
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into Circular Quay,
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I looked at the place where
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me legs used to be,
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And thank Christ there was nobody waiting
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for me to grieve to mourn and to pity
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but the band played
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Waltzing Matilda
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as they carried us down the gangway
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but nobody cheered they just
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stood there and stared
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Then they turned all their faces away
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And so now, every April,
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I sit on my porch
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And I watch that parade pass before me
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And I see my old comrades,
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how proudly they march
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Reviving old dreams of past glories
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And the old men march slowly,
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their bones stiff and sore
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All tired old heroes
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from a tired old 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
But the band plays
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Waltzing Matilda
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And the old men still answer the call
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But as year follows year,
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more old men disappear
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Someday no -one will
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march there at all
Waltzing Matilda,
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Waltzing Matilda
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Ooh, come a -waltzing Matilda with me
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And their ghosts may be heard
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As they march by that billabong
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Come along, sing Matilda with me
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