Chords for John Allan Cameron - 11 And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

_ _ _ When I was a young man, I carried my pack
_ And lived the free life off the road
_ _ _ From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback _
I waltzed my Matilda all over _ _
Then in _ 1915, _ my country said, son
_ It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done
_ _ They gave me a tin hat, they gave me a gun _ _
_ They sent me away to [Bb] the war _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] And the band [Eb] played Waltzing _ [Bb] Matilda
_ _ As the ship pulled away from the [F] _ _
_ [C] quay
And [Cm] I made all the cheers, _ [Bb] flags [Eb] waving and _ _ tears
We sailed off [F] for _ [Bb] Gallipoli
_ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] It's well I [Eb]
remember [Bb] that terrible _ [Gm]
day
Our blood stained [F] the sands [Eb] and the water _
[Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ How in [Eb] that hell-land [Bb] they call _ Suvla Bay
_ _ We were butchered [F] like lambs [Bb] at the slaughter _ _ _
Johnny [F] Turkey was ready, he'd [Eb] primed himself well
[Eb] _
[F] He rained us with bullets, _ he [Gm] showered us with [Bb] shell
And in five minutes [Eb] flat we [Bb] were all blown [Gm] to hell
_ _ _ He blew us back [F] home to [Bb] _
Australia
_ And the band played [Eb] _ Waltzing [Bb] _
Matilda
_ As we stopped to bury [F] our slaves
_ _ _ [Cm] We buried ours _ _ [Bb] and the Turks buried [Eb] _ _ theirs
_ [Bb] Then it started [F] all over
[Bb] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Bb] Those who [Eb] were living [Bb] just tried to [Gm] survive
[Bb] That mad world of [F] blood, death and [Eb] fire _
_ [C] For [Bb] ten weary [Eb] weeks I kept [Bb] myself [Gm] alive _ _ _
There were around me the [F] corpses piled [Bb] higher
_ _ [Gm]
A [F] big turkey shell knocked [Eb] me arse [Bb] overhead _
[F] When I awoke in my [Eb] hospital _ [Bb] bed
When I thought what [Eb] I'd done and I wished I [Gm] was dead
_ _ [Bb] Never knew there were [F] worse things than [Bb] dying
_ _ _ For no more of [Eb] _ Waltzing [Bb]
Matilda
_ _ All around the green bush far and [F] _
near
_ _ _ [Cm]
Hunting and gang _ [Bb] and men needs both [Eb] _ _ _
legs
Still [Bb] more Waltzing [F]
Matilda [Bb] for me _
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] They collected [Eb] the wounded, [Bb] the crippled, [Gm] the _ [Bb] maimed
They shipped us [F] back home to [Eb] _ Australia _
_ [Gm] The armless, the lingless, [Bb] the blind, [Gm] the insane
_ The [Bb]
proud [F] wounded heroes [Bb] of Suvla
And _ [F]
when the ship pulled into [Eb] _
_ [Bb] circular quay
[F] I looked at the place where [Eb] my legs [Bb] used to be
And thank Christ [Eb] there was no one [Bb] there waiting [Gm] for me _
_ [Bb] To mourn and [F] to grieve and [Bb] to pity _ _
And the band [Eb] played Waltzing [Bb] _ Matilda _
_ As they carried us down the [F] _ gangway _
_ [Cm] Nobody _ cheered, _ [Bb] they just stood there [Eb] and stared
_ _ [Bb] Then they turned all [F] their faces _ [Bb]
away
_ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] So _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb]
now [Eb] every April I [Bb] sit on my [Gm] porch
_ [Bb] I watch my [F] parade [Eb] pass before me
_ I [Bb]
see my [Eb] old comrades [Bb] how proudly [Gm] they march
_ [Bb] _
Renewing their [F] deeds of [Bb] past glory
_ _ I [F]
see the old men [Eb] all bent stiff [Bb] and sore
[F] The tired old heroes of [Eb] a forgotten [Bb] war
And the young people [Eb] ask what are they marching [Gm] for _ _
_ And I ask [F]
myself the [Bb] same question _ _
_ And the band [Eb] played Waltzing [Bb] Matilda _ _
The old men still answer the [F] _ call _
Year [Cm] after year _ _ [Bb] the numbers get [Eb]
few
_ Someday [Bb] no one will [F] march there at all _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Waltzing _ Matilda, _ [Eb] _ _
Waltzing _ Matilda
Who _ can _ _ Waltzing _ _ [Eb] Matilda be?
_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _