And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

Edit of jteethy's tab with small changes to lyrics and chords that I prefer.
I play this on Ukulele, so I don't know what capo to recommend.


[Verse]

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When I was a young man I carried me pack
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And I lived the free life of a rover
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From the Murray's green banks to the dusty Outback
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I waltzed my Matilda all over

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Then in 1915 me country said, Son
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It's time you stopped rambling there's work to be done
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So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun
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And they marched me away to the war

[Chorus]

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   And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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   When the ship pulled away from the quay
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   And amidst all the tears, flag-waving and cheers
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   We sailed off for Gallipoli


[Verse]

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And how well I remember that terrible day
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When our blood stained the sand and the water
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And how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
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We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

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Johnny Turk he was ready, he'd primed himself well
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He rained us with bullets, and he showered us with shells
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And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
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Nearly blew us back home to Australia

[Chorus]

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   And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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   When we stopped to bury our slain
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   We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs
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   Then we started all over again


[Verse]

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And those that were left, well, we tried to survive
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In that mad world of blood, death and fire
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And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
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While around me the corpses piled higher

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Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head
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And when I awoke in me hospital bed
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And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead
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Never knew there was worse things than dying


[Chorus]

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   So no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda
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   All around the green bush far and near
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   To hump tent and pegs a man needs his legs
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   No more Waltzing Matilda for me


[Verse]

    G+G      C majorC      G+G       E minorEm
So they gathered the wounded, the crippled, the maimed
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And they shipped us back home to Australia
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The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
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Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

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And when the ship pulled into Circular Quay
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I looked at the place where me legs used to be
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I thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
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To grieve and to mourn and to pity


[Chorus]

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   And the band played Waltzing Matilda
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   As they carried us down the gangway
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   But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
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   And then turned their faces away


[Verse]

  G+G     C majorC    G+G     E minorEm
So now every April I sit on me porch
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And I watch the parade pass before me
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I see my old comrades how proudly they march
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Renewing old dreams of past glory

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And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore
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They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
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And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
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And I ask myself the same question


[Chorus]

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   And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
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   And the old men still answer the call
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   But year after year those old men disappear
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   Someday no one will march there at all


[Outro]

G+G         C majorC
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
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Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
     G+G       D MajorD    E minorEm        C majorC
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the Billabong
G+G       C majorC     D7D7     G+G