And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Live) Chords

_ _ _ [G] Well, I've got heaps of lively numbers coming up on the last set, _ but _
_ [D#] Right now I'd like to do one that's been probably one of the most requested songs
_ _ That I get around the pubs and I've been dying to record this one.
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It needs no [A] introduction _ _ _ _ _
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[A] When I [D] was a young man, I [A]
carried a pack
_ I built the free [E] life of a [A] rogue _ _ _
From the Murray's [D] green basin [E] to the dusty outback
I waltzed my _ Matilda all over _ _
Then in _ _ [B] 1915
[D] The country [A] said son, _ [E] there's no time [B] for roving.
[D] There's work to be [A]
done
And they gave me a tin [D] hat _ [A] and they gave me [F#] a gun _ _
_ [A] And they sent me [E] away to [A] the war
_ _ _ And the band [D] played waltzing _ [A] Matilda
_ _ _ As a ship pulled [E]
away from the quay
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And [D] amidst all the [A] cheers the flag waving [F#] and tears
_ _ We [A] set off [E] for
_ _ [A] Gallipoli
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_ _ How well I _ [D]
remember [E] that terrible day _
When our blood stained the sand and the water _ and _ [A] how in [D] that hell they [A] called
Zubla Bay we were butchered [E] like lambs at the slaughter
_ _ _ _ Johnny Turkey was waiting [D] he primed [A] himself well
_ [E] _ Showered us with bullets and [D] he rained us [A] with shells and in five minutes [D] flat
_ _ [A] Well, he [E] blew [F#] us to hell
_ _ He [A] nearly blew us [E] right back to Australia _ and the band [D] played _ waltzing [E] Matilda _ _
As we stopped to bury our slain
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We [A] buried ours and the Turks [F#] buried theirs
_ _ _ [A] Then we started [E] all over _ again _ _
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So [A] those who [D] were left [E] just tried to survive in a mad world of blood death and fire _ _ _
And for [A] ten weary weeks, I kept _ [E] myself alive _ as the corpses _ around me piled higher _
_ Then a big turkey shell knocked [D] me ass over [A] head
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And when I awoke [D] in the hospital [A] bed, I saw what I'd done [D] _
_ [A] and I wished [F#] I was dead
_ _ [A] Then I knew there were [E]
worse things than dying _ _ _
And I'll [A] go no [D] more waltzing [A] _
Matilda
_ _ All through the [E] green bush far and free
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_ [D] Cause to hunt and ten peg _ [A] a man needs [F#] both legs _ _
No [E] more waltzing Matilda for me _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I [A] collected [D] the cripple [E] the wounded the main
_ _ shipped us all back to Australia
_ _ _ [A] The legless [D] the [A] armless the blind and [E] insane the brave wounded heroes of Suvla _ _ _
And as our ship pulled in [D] the circular [A] key, I
[E] _ Looked at the place where my legs used [A] to be and I thank Christ [D] there was [A] nobody waiting [F#] for me _ _
_ [E] To mourn and to grieve and to pity
_ _ And [A] the band [D] played _ waltzing [A] Matilda
_ _ As they carried [E] us down the gangway
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[E] _ Nobody cheered
_ They just stood and [F#] stared _ _ _
[A] Then turned [E] all their faces _ away _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] And now [D] every April [A] I sit [E] on the porch as I [A] watch the [E] parade [A] pass before me
_ _ I see my old [D] comrades [E] how proudly they march
_ [A] reviving [E] old dreams and past _ glories
_ But the old men march slowly
_ [D] bone [A]-stiff and sore
[E] _ Tired old men [D] from a tired [A] old war and the young people [D] ask
[A] What are they marching [F#] for? _ _ _ _ _
[E] And I asked myself the same question _ and the band [D] plays waltzing [A] _ Matilda
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_ As the old men still answer the call _ _ _ _
Year after [A] year more old men _ [F#] disappear
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Soon none of them will march there _
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