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And The Band Played Matilda

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

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

And how well I remember that day,
How our blood stained the we call Suvla Bay
We were butchered lambs 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 was worse things than dying.

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

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

And as our ship into Circular Quay,
I looked at the where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was waiting for me,
To mourn, and to grieve, and to pity.

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

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

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