100 Years On chords by Redgum

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He came in from Melbourne on a Pioneer

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Adelaide morning, warm and clear

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And a past that wasn't quite within the law


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And he opened yet another ten dollar room

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To a broken blind and a rising gloom

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And a threadbare cotton carpet on the floor


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And the muzak piping through the corridor

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Played that song he heard before

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It went, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?


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A suitcase held with rope and twine

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Cleaner's shirt and an open mind

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A trail of debts to mark where he had been


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A million miles of racetracks

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And torn tickets on the ground

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And his only son cut down in Phnom Penh green


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A police car crawled down Gouger street

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As he looked for some place cheap to eat

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It was just another curbside interview


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With a warrant out in Adelaide

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For a bad decision that he once made

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An instinct took his tongue and pulled him through


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So he left his hotel room that night

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In time to make a midnight flight

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With an overloaded truckie going east


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And the line ran round inside his head

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Was it something that his best friend said

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"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"


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A billabong's just a grubby pond that's busy washing ore

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The squatter drives a thoroughbred of steel

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And if he runs forever, will his life be all in vain?

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At least that's how it makes him feel


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And the truckie pushed a cassette in

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As they rumbled through the Grampians

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It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?


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Waltzing Matilda

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Waltzing Matilda

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Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?


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Waltzing Matilda

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Waltzing Matilda

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Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?


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And the truckie pushed a cassette in

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As they rumbled through the Grampians

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It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?