Luyện nghe bài hát WALTZING MATILDA WALTZ

Well, once jolly swagmen* humping their swags
and stuffed jolly jumbucks* down in their tucker
These days, junkies go on house-breaking jags
and steal to buy the poison need
While the swaggie, he just wanted a

And who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda me?
Hey Banjo*, this country's not it used to be
We've all your words, and re-written your score
And "Waltzing Matilda" no more.

Henry and Mary, on a warm afternoon
rowed Reedy River to the broad bright lagoon
The song of the river is a vanished tune
they built the uranium mine
and what's is just toxic slime

And who'll come Matilda with me?
Oh, Henry, this not what it used to be
pass with a whimper, and not with a roar
And "Waltzing Matilda" no more.

Well, we cut down the trees, and the land we
We ploughed and we planted, we ploughed it again
and again and again, and and again
So now on a hot windy day
We can watch our topsoil blow

And who'll come Matilda with me?
The desert is down to the sea
On the day it stretches
from shore to shining
go waltzing Matilda no more

Saturday night outside a King's hotel
There stands our future, and it's to hell
with hard drugs and young bodies to sell
Hey Australia, what progress made!
come a long way, since Diamond day

And who'll come a-waltzing Matilda me?
Hey Anzac*, is this what you fought to free?
A land fit for heroes, or and whores?
And "Waltzing Matilda" no more.

And who'll come Matilda with me?
This country still be what we want it to be
Perhaps one day soon, the will be restored
And we'll go Waltzing Matilda more
We'll go Waltzing once more

The combined Australia/New Zealand armies that fought in both World

"Banjo"
Author of "The Man From River" and "Waltzing Matilda"

A watering hole, specifically the curved meander of a winding
that has been isolated due to sand bar

I believe in the US you refer to as "hobos", though a swaggy is not
someone financially down on their luck or On The Run. Some
swagmen are just fed up with city life and want to spend their
the country on foot, living off the land and the charity of
passers-by as they can.

Coolibah

The Eucalyptus Coolibah is a species of Eucalyptus commonly found
in inland parts of the continent.

A billy is a tin, often an old fruit tin or other steel container,
used to boil water to tea. Often they have a piece of wire
across their top as a handle, whereupon after the water is boiling,
one holds the wire, places the desired amount of tea leaves in
water, stands up, and swings the whole in a circular motion
vigorously in order to force the tea to the bottom of the tin. A
rather nice touch is to crush a Coolibah leaf into the water too,
the tea a of eucalyptus.

A (usually refers to a ram)

A knapsack. "Tucker" "food".

In Australia in the 19th century, large swathes of outback land
divided up and mostly allocated to "squatters" - wealthy
land-owners from Britain, who could the prices the government was
asking. There were freehold selections free for the taking (all you
had to do was sign on the dotted line) made to anyone who
would try to the land, but the freehold lots tended to be poorer
land where it was a to earn to living. Squatters became fairly
wealthy from their even taking over freehold selections in
the process of expanding their lots, in the fact that this one
is on his thoroughbred horse.

The troopers are law enforcement. The would have called
them in because the swagman has stolen a sheep from the property.

Given the lonely life of a swaggy, they tend to quite
for things that are fairly important to their immediate
existence. In this case, "Matilda" is the swagman's sleeping gear -
a bedroll.

Small time family farmer/rancher in rural Australia, usually on marginal