The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away chords by Roaring Jackl

The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away

Artist/Songwriter: Alistair Hulett
Band: Roaring Jack
from "The Cat Among the Pigeons" (1988)
Released on LP (MBLP 7007), cassette (MBTC 7007) and CD (MBCD 7007) by
Mighty Boy Records in November 1988.



This is my own interpretation and is in no way a reflection Alistair or the
band's original chords or key.

(Capo 1st Fret)


C        F     C      G
You came to this country in fetters and chains
F      C      Am     G
Outlaws and rebels with numbers for names
C     F       C     G
And on the triangle were beaten and maimed
F         G7     C
Blood stained the soil of Australia .


C      F     C       G
Dookies and duchesses, flash lads and whores
F          C      Am       G
You worked their plantations and polished their floors
C       F      C       G
Lived in their shadows and died in their wars
F         G7     C
Blood stained the soil of Australia.

Chorus
    G      C   C/G
Does it quicken your heart beat
  F      C  Am
To see tar and concrete
F     C       Am     G
Cover the tracks of the old bullock dray
G         C  C/G
Have you grown so heartless
  F      C  Am
To christen it progress
     F       C      G    C
When the swaggies have all waltzed Matilda away


C      F       C     G
Driven like dogs from your own native home,
F      C    Am      G
Hardship and poverty caused you to roam
C    F      C    G
Over the bracken and over the foam:
F         G7     C
Blood stained the soil of Australia.


C      F       C     G
Then in the fever for fortune and fame
  F        C     Am     G
You caused the poor blacks to suffer the same
C       F      C     G
Imprisoned on missions or hunted for game
F         G7     C
Blood stained the soil of Australia.


(chorus)

C        F        C      G
Its two hundred years since you came to this land,
 F       C       Am      G
Betrayed by the girl with the black velvet band
C         F    C     G
And still to this day you don~Rt understand:
F         G7     C
Blood stained the soil of Australia.


C     F       C      G
Koori and white, old Australian and new
F      C     Am  G
Brothers and sisters of every hue
C       F       C        G
The future is ours, take the wealth from the few
  F       G7     C
And raise the Red Flag in Australia.


Chorus 2

    G      C   C/G
Let it quicken your heart beat
  F       C  Am
The road~Rs at your own feet
F     C      Am    G
Travel it lightly and travel it well
  G       C C/G
And don~Rt speak of success
  F      C Am
Or christen it progress
    F       C     G    C
Til the swaggies can all waltz Matilda as well.


Chords by Peter Jenner 2005
E-Mail:peter@bob.sh
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