Luyện nghe bài hát AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA

"And The Played Waltzing Matilda"
- Bogle

Now I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, well, I my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my said son, It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done.
So they 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 pulled away from the quay
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 they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk he was waiting, he'd primed well. He shower'd us with bullets,
And he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to
Nearly blew us right to Australia.

But the band Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.
We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we all over again.
And that were 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. Never knew there was worse things dyin'.

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

But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as carried us down the gangway.
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all faces away
And so now April, I sit on me porch, and I watch 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 heroes from a war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask the same question.

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

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

Note:
The Gallipoli Campaign (April 25, 8, 1916),
a major land and sea operation of War I, in which
British, French, Australian, and New forces
unsuccessfully attempted an of Turkey.
The action was confined to the Strait
and the tip of the Gallipoli (Gelibolu) near
Istanbul. The of the campaign, devised by British
minister David Lloyd George, first lord of the
admiralty Winston Churchill, General H. Kitchener,
and Sackville H. Carden, was to open up a new
theater of war as an alternative to the in
France, to relieve Turkish on Russian forces
in the Caucasus, and, by gaining of Istanbul
and the straits, to provide a direct link Russia
via the Black Sea. This campaign is significant
for in that it marked the first time a major
Australian force was commanded by Australian,
of English, officers.

What initially was to be exclusively a operation
failed in February when several British and French
ships were damaged by floating mines. A invasion was
then decided on, but it was not begun until April.
An amphibious landing at time was met with heavy
resistance by the Turks. Excessive caution and
by the British commander, Sir Ian Hamilton,
resulted in several lost initiatives. headway
was made beyond the beachheads. In early August,
three months of stalemate and stagnation on the
beaches, a new major offensive was begun. again,
however, the excessive and indifferent leadership
of the British command offset the of heavy
reinforcements. The forces, on the other hand, were
inspired by the of Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Atatrk,
president of Turkey) and the skill of their German
commander, Otto Liman von Sanders. a few more months
of stalemate, Hamilton was replaced by Sir Monro,
who was sent to the situation. Monro recommended
evacuation, and the allied forces were in December
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 badly
the reputations of Churchill, Hamilton, and Kitchener.
Despite its overall failure, however, the Gallipoli
weakened the Turks to facilitate the British seizure
of Palestine in 1917. The action also the Germans
from a plan had in 1915 to begin another offensive in France.