Luyện nghe bài hát AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA

"And The Played Waltzing Matilda"
- Bogle

Now when I was a young man, I me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my said son, It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done.
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me to the war.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the
And amidst all the cheers, the and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli
And how well I remember that day, how our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny he was waiting, he'd primed himself well. He shower'd us with bullets,
And he rained us shell. And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly us right back to Australia.

But the played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.
We ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.
And those that left, well we tried to survive, in that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive, though me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell 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. knew there was worse things than dyin'.

For I'll go no more Matilda, all around the green bush far and free
To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs-no waltzing Matilda for me.
So gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.
The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me used to be.
And thanked there was nobody waiting for me, to grieve, to mourn, and to pity.

But the played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their away
And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I the parades pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old of past glories
And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They're tired old from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching And I ask myself the same question.

But the plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,
But as follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, Matilda, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda me?

"Matilda" - the backpack and associated gear by livestock drovers and prospecters
in remote areas of the outback.
"Swag" - canvas bag
"Billabong" - creek or estuary, generally with an outlet to the sea and containing more or less water.

Historical
The Gallipoli (April 25, 1915-January 8, 1916),
a major land and sea operation of World War I, in
British, French, Australian, and New Zealand
unsuccessfully attempted an of Turkey.
The action was to the Dardanelles Strait
and the tip of the Gallipoli (Gelibolu) near
Istanbul. The purpose of the campaign, by British
munitions minister Lloyd George, first lord of the
Winston Churchill, General Herbert H. Kitchener,
and Admiral H. Carden, was to open up a new
theater of war as an alternative to the in
France, to Turkish pressure on Russian forces
in the Caucasus, and, by control of Istanbul
and the straits, to provide a direct link Russia
via the Black Sea. This is also significant
for Australians in that it marked the first a major
Australian military was commanded by Australian,
of English, officers.

What initially was to be exclusively a naval
failed in February when several British and French
ships were by floating mines. A land invasion was
then decided on, but it was not until late April.
An amphibious landing at time was met with heavy
resistance by the Turks. Excessive caution and
leadership by the commander, Sir Ian Hamilton,
resulted in several lost initiatives. headway
was made the several beachheads. In early August,
after three months of and stagnation on the
beaches, a new major offensive was begun. again,
however, the caution and indifferent leadership
of the British offset the effect of heavy
reinforcements. The Turkish forces, on the other hand,
inspired by the leadership of Kemal (Kemal Atatrk,
later president of Turkey) and the of their German
commander, Otto von Sanders. After a few more months
of stalemate, was replaced by Sir Charles Monro,
who was sent to the situation. Monro recommended
evacuation, and the allied forces were withdrawn in
and January. casualties were 205,000 out of 410,000;
the French a rate of 47,000 out of 79,000; Turkish,
250,000 to 300,000 out of 500,000. The fiasco
stained the of Churchill, Hamilton, and Kitchener.
Despite its failure, however, the Gallipoli campaign
weakened the enough to facilitate the British seizure
of Palestine in 1917. The also distracted the Germans
from a plan they had in 1915 to begin another in France.