Chords for The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Tempo:
91.4 bpm
Chords used:
G
Gm
D
C
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
When I was a young man I carried me pack and I lived a free life of the rover
From the [N] Murray's green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 the country [Gm] set sun, it's time to stop rambling there's work to be done
They gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun and they sent me away to the war
And the band played Walsy and Matilda as our ship pulled away from the quay
Amidst all the cheers, [D] the flag waving and tears we sailed off [N] to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day, how blood stained the [G] sand and the water
[C] And how in that hell that they [C#] called Suvla Bay we were butchered [B] like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turkey was ready, he primed himself well, he chased us with bullets, he rained us with shell
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, nearly blew us right [N] back to Australia
[C] But the band played [Gm] Walsy and Matilda as we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, then we [D] started all over again
Now those that were left, well we tried to survive in a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself [B] alive, though around me the corpses piled [N] higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed
I saw what it had done and I wished I was dead, never knew there was [G] worse things than [G] dying
For I'll go no more Walsy and Matilda, all [D] around the green bush far and near
But a [Gm] humper tent and pegs, [N] a man needs both legs, no more Walsy and Matilda for me
So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed, and they shipped us back home [D] to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
[G]
And as our ship pulled into circulation, I looked up the place where me legs used to be
[G] [Gm] And thank [Cm] Christ there was no one there waiting for me, to grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band [D] played Walsy and Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they [Gm] turned all their faces [G] away
And now [N] every April I sit on my porch, and I watch [G] the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march, [C] renewing old dreams in past glory
And the old men [G] march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore, the tired old men from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for?
And I ask myself the same question
[C] And the band [Gm] plays Walsy and Matilda, [A] and the old [Gm] men answer the call
But year by year [G] the numbers get fewer, someday no one will march there at all
Walsy and Matilda, Walsy and Matilda, oh come Walsy and [Gm] Matilda with me
[Am]
And the ghosts [Gm] we may hide, as we [C#] pass by the billowbone, [Gm] oh come Walsy [G]
and Matilda with [F] me
[G]
From the [N] Murray's green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 the country [Gm] set sun, it's time to stop rambling there's work to be done
They gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun and they sent me away to the war
And the band played Walsy and Matilda as our ship pulled away from the quay
Amidst all the cheers, [D] the flag waving and tears we sailed off [N] to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day, how blood stained the [G] sand and the water
[C] And how in that hell that they [C#] called Suvla Bay we were butchered [B] like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turkey was ready, he primed himself well, he chased us with bullets, he rained us with shell
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, nearly blew us right [N] back to Australia
[C] But the band played [Gm] Walsy and Matilda as we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, then we [D] started all over again
Now those that were left, well we tried to survive in a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself [B] alive, though around me the corpses piled [N] higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed
I saw what it had done and I wished I was dead, never knew there was [G] worse things than [G] dying
For I'll go no more Walsy and Matilda, all [D] around the green bush far and near
But a [Gm] humper tent and pegs, [N] a man needs both legs, no more Walsy and Matilda for me
So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed, and they shipped us back home [D] to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
[G]
And as our ship pulled into circulation, I looked up the place where me legs used to be
[G] [Gm] And thank [Cm] Christ there was no one there waiting for me, to grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band [D] played Walsy and Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they [Gm] turned all their faces [G] away
And now [N] every April I sit on my porch, and I watch [G] the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march, [C] renewing old dreams in past glory
And the old men [G] march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore, the tired old men from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for?
And I ask myself the same question
[C] And the band [Gm] plays Walsy and Matilda, [A] and the old [Gm] men answer the call
But year by year [G] the numbers get fewer, someday no one will march there at all
Walsy and Matilda, Walsy and Matilda, oh come Walsy and [Gm] Matilda with me
[Am]
And the ghosts [Gm] we may hide, as we [C#] pass by the billowbone, [Gm] oh come Walsy [G]
and Matilda with [F] me
[G]
Key:
G
Gm
D
C
C#
G
Gm
D
When I was a young man I carried me pack and I lived a free life of the rover _
_ From the [N] Murray's green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over
_ Then in 1915 the country [Gm] set sun, it's time to stop rambling there's work to be done
They gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun and they sent me away to the war
_ _ And the band played Walsy and Matilda _ as our ship pulled away from the quay
_ Amidst all the cheers, [D] the flag waving and tears we sailed off [N] to Gallipoli
_ _ _ How well I remember that terrible day, how blood stained the [G] sand and the water
_ [C] And how in that hell that they [C#] called Suvla Bay we were butchered [B] like lambs at the slaughter
_ Johnny Turkey was ready, he primed himself well, he chased us with bullets, he rained us with shell
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, nearly blew us right [N] back to Australia
[C] But the band played [Gm] Walsy and Matilda _ as we stopped to bury our slain _
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, then we [D] started all over again _
_ _ Now those that were left, well we tried to survive in a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself [B] alive, though around me the corpses piled [N] higher
_ Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed
I saw what it had done and I wished I was dead, never knew there was [G] worse things than [G] dying
_ For I'll go no more Walsy and Matilda, _ all [D] around the green bush far and near
But a [Gm] humper tent and pegs, [N] a man needs both legs, no more Walsy and Matilda for me _
_ _ So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed, and they shipped us back home [D] to Australia
_ _ The legless, the armless, the blind and insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
[G] _
And as our ship pulled into circulation, _ I looked up the place where me legs used to be
[G] [Gm] And thank [Cm] Christ there was no one there waiting for me, to grieve and to mourn and to pity
_ _ And the band [D] played Walsy and Matilda, _ as they carried us down the gangway
_ But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they [Gm] turned all their faces _ [G] away _ _
And now [N] every April I sit on my porch, and I watch [G] the parade pass before me _
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march, [C] renewing old dreams in past glory
And the old men [G] march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore, the tired old men from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for?
And I ask myself the same question
_ [C] And the band [Gm] plays Walsy and Matilda, _ [A] and the old [Gm] men answer the call
But year by year [G] the numbers get fewer, _ someday no one will march there at all
_ _ _ Walsy and Matilda, _ _ Walsy and Matilda, _ _ oh come Walsy and [Gm] Matilda with me
_ _ [Am]
And the ghosts [Gm] we may hide, as we [C#] pass by the billowbone, [Gm] _ oh come Walsy [G]
and Matilda with _ [F] _ me
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ From the [N] Murray's green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over
_ Then in 1915 the country [Gm] set sun, it's time to stop rambling there's work to be done
They gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun and they sent me away to the war
_ _ And the band played Walsy and Matilda _ as our ship pulled away from the quay
_ Amidst all the cheers, [D] the flag waving and tears we sailed off [N] to Gallipoli
_ _ _ How well I remember that terrible day, how blood stained the [G] sand and the water
_ [C] And how in that hell that they [C#] called Suvla Bay we were butchered [B] like lambs at the slaughter
_ Johnny Turkey was ready, he primed himself well, he chased us with bullets, he rained us with shell
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, nearly blew us right [N] back to Australia
[C] But the band played [Gm] Walsy and Matilda _ as we stopped to bury our slain _
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, then we [D] started all over again _
_ _ Now those that were left, well we tried to survive in a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself [B] alive, though around me the corpses piled [N] higher
_ Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed
I saw what it had done and I wished I was dead, never knew there was [G] worse things than [G] dying
_ For I'll go no more Walsy and Matilda, _ all [D] around the green bush far and near
But a [Gm] humper tent and pegs, [N] a man needs both legs, no more Walsy and Matilda for me _
_ _ So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed, and they shipped us back home [D] to Australia
_ _ The legless, the armless, the blind and insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
[G] _
And as our ship pulled into circulation, _ I looked up the place where me legs used to be
[G] [Gm] And thank [Cm] Christ there was no one there waiting for me, to grieve and to mourn and to pity
_ _ And the band [D] played Walsy and Matilda, _ as they carried us down the gangway
_ But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they [Gm] turned all their faces _ [G] away _ _
And now [N] every April I sit on my porch, and I watch [G] the parade pass before me _
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march, [C] renewing old dreams in past glory
And the old men [G] march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore, the tired old men from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for?
And I ask myself the same question
_ [C] And the band [Gm] plays Walsy and Matilda, _ [A] and the old [Gm] men answer the call
But year by year [G] the numbers get fewer, _ someday no one will march there at all
_ _ _ Walsy and Matilda, _ _ Walsy and Matilda, _ _ oh come Walsy and [Gm] Matilda with me
_ _ [Am]
And the ghosts [Gm] we may hide, as we [C#] pass by the billowbone, [Gm] _ oh come Walsy [G]
and Matilda with _ [F] _ me
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _