Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
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Now when I was a young man
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I carried the pack
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And I lived the free life of the rover
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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 then
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1915 my country said son
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it's time to stop rambling
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there's work to be done
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and they gave me a tin hat
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and they gave me a gun
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and 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 amid all the cheers,
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flag waving in tears,
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We sailed off for Gallipoli.
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How well I remem
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ber that terrible day,
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When our blood stained
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the sands and the water,
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An d of how in that hell
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that they called Suvla Bay
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We were butchered like
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lambs at the slaughter
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Johnny Turkey was ready,
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he primed himself well
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Rained us with bullets
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and he showered us with shells
And in five minutes flat
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we were all blown to hell,
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nearly blew us back home to Australia,
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and the band played waltzing
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Matilda as we
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We stopped to bury our slain
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We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
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And it started all over again
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Those who were living
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just tried to survive
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In that mad world of blood, death, and fire
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An d for ten weary week
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s I kept myself alive
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Though around me
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the corpses piled higher
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Then a big Turkish shell
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knocked me ass overhead
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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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then I wished I were dead.
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Never knew there were worse
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things than dying.
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For no more I'll go waltzing, Matilda,
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All around the green bush far and near,
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Four to hump, ten to 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 collected the wounded,
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the crippled, the maimed
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And they sent us all back to Australia
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The armless, the legless,
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the blind, the in sane
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Those proud,
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wounded heroes of Souvlac 'h
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And when the ship pulled into circular quay
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I looked at the place where
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my legs used to be
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And thank Christ there was
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no one there waiting for me
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To grieve and to mourn and to pity
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And the band played waltzing 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 they turned all their faces away.
And so now every April
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I sit on my porch
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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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Renewing their dreams of past glory.
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I see the old men, all tired,
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stiff and sore,
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Proud old heroes of 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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And I ask myself the same question
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And the band plays
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waltzing Matilda
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And the old men still an swer the call
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And year after year,
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the numbers 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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Who'll come waltzing Matilda with me?
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And their ghosts may be heard
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As they march by the billa bong.
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Who'll come waltzing Matilda
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with me?
Outro 1
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