Joan Baez - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Lyrics

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And the band played waltzing matilda

Now when i was a young lad i carried me pack

And i lived the free life of the rover.

From the murray's green banks to the dusty outback

While i waltzed my matilda all over.

Then in 1915 my country said 'son

It's time you stop ramblin' there's work to be done.'

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played 'waltzing matilda'

As the ship pulled away from the quay

Amidst the songs and the cheers the flag waving and tears

We sailed off for gallipoli.

And how well i remember that terrible day

How our blood stained the sand we call suvla bay

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.

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The big turkish shell caught me arse over head

And when i woke up in my hospital bed

And saw what it had done well i wished i was dead

Never knew there was worse things than dying.

So i'll go no more 'waltzing matilda'

Or through the green bush bars and wide

For to hunt and tent peg a man needs both legs

No more 'waltzing matilda' for me.

They gathered the injured the wounded the maimed

And they shipped us all back to australia.

The armless the legless the blind the insane

Those proud wounded heroes of suvla.

And as our ship sailed into circular quay

I looked at the place where me legs used to be

And thanked christ there was nobody waiting for me

To mourn and to grieve and to pity.

And the band played "waltzing matilda"

As they wheeled us down the gangway.

And nobody cheered they just stood and stared.

And they all turned their faces away.

And the band still plays 'waltzing matilda'

And the young men still answer the call

But as year follows yearthose old men disappear

Someday no one will march there at all.

Waltzing mathilda waltzing mathilda

Who'll come a-waltzing mathilda with me

And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the billabong

Who'll come a-waltzing mathilda with me ?

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