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And The Band Played Matilda

Now when I was a lad I carried me pack
And I lived the free of the rover.
From the Murray's banks, to the dusty outback
While I waltzed my all over.
Then in 1915, my said, 'Son,
It's time you stop ramblin', work to be done.'
So they gave me a tin hat, and gave me a gun,
And marched me away to the war.

And the played 'Waltzing Matilda,'
As the pulled away from the quay,
the songs and the cheers, the flag waving, and tears,
We off for Gallipoli.

And how I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the we call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like at the slaughter.

The big Turkish shell caught me arse head,
And when I up in my hospital bed
And saw it had done, well, I wished I was dead
Never knew there was things than dying.

So I'll go no 'Waltzing Matilda,'
or the green bush bars and wide
For to and tent peg a man needs both legs,
No more 'Waltzing for me.

They the injured, the wounded, the maimed,
And they shipped us all to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded of Suvla.

And as our sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place me legs used to be,
And thanked there was nobody waiting for me,
To mourn, and to grieve, and to pity.

And the played "Waltzing Matilda"
As they wheeled us the gangway.
And nobody cheered, just stood and stared.
And they all turned their away.

And the still plays 'Waltzing Matilda,'
And the men still answer the call,
But as year follows year,those old men
Someday, no one will there at all.

Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda
Who'll come a-waltzing with me
And their ghosts may be as you pass the Billabong
Who'll a-waltzing Mathilda with me ?