Luyện nghe bài hát WALTZING MATILDA WALTZ

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

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

Henry and Mary, on a warm afternoon
rowed down Reedy to the broad bright lagoon
The song of the is a long vanished tune
since they built the mine
and what's left is toxic slime

And who'll come a-walting Matilda me?
Oh, Henry, country's not what it used to be
Days pass 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 that now on a hot day
We can watch our topsoil blow

And who'll a-walting Matilda with me?
The desert is marching to the sea
On the day that it
from to shining shore
We'll go waltzing Matilda no

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

And who'll come Matilda with me?
Hey Anzac*, is what you fought to keep free?
A fit for heroes, or junkies and whores?
And "Waltzing Matilda" no more.

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

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

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

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

I believe in the US you refer to them as "hobos", a swaggy is not
always someone financially on their luck or On The Run. Some
swagmen are just fed up city life and want to spend their time
exploring the on foot, living off the land and the charity of
as best they can.

Coolibah

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

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

A (usually refers to a ram)

A knapsack. "Tucker" "food".

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

The are law enforcement. The squatter would have called
them in the swagman has stolen a sheep from the squatter's property.

Given the lonely of a swaggy, they tend to become 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 land