Matilda No More chords by Slim Dusty

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
E MajorE

Verse:
BB                  E MajorE
Once Jolly swagmen went humpin their swags
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And stuffed jolly jumbucks in their tuckerbags
   BB      F#F#     BB       E MajorE
These days jolly junkies go on bag snatchin jags
   BB             C# minorC#m
And steal to buy the poison they need
    F#F#          BB
The old swaggie just wanted a feed

E MajorE             BB
And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
  F#F#                   BB
Oh Banjo this countrys not what it used to be
   E MajorE              BB       G# minorG#m
We've changed all your words and rewritten your score
     E MajorE     F#F#    BB
Now it's waltzing Matilda no more
E MajorE       F#F#      BB

               E MajorE
Once Henry and Mary on a warm afternoon
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Rode down a reedy river to the broad bright lagoon
BB        F#F#     BB       E MajorE
The song of the river is a long vanished tune
      BB         C# minorC#m
Since they built the uranium mine
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What's just left now is just toxic slime

E MajorE             BB
And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Oh Henry this countrys not what it used to be
  E MajorE            BB      G# minorG#m
Days pass with a whimper and not with the roar
     E MajorE    F# minorF#m    BB
And it's waltzing Matilda no more
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                   E MajorE
We cut down the trees and the land we reclaimed
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We ploughed and we planted then we ploughed once again
   BB     F#F#    BB     E MajorE
And again and again and again and again
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So now on a hot windy day
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We can watch our topsoil blown away

      E MajorE         BB
And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
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The desert is marching down to the sea
    E MajorE             BB       G# minorG#m
On the day that it stretches from shore to far shore
    E MajorE    F#F#     BB
Well go waltzing Matilda no more


                   E MajorE
Saturday night outside a Kings Cross hotel
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Kids with hard drugs and soft bodies to sell
 BB       F# minorF#m     BB     E MajorE
Australia these children are halfway to hell
      BB           C# minorC#m
Oh is this the best deal you can give?
    F# minorF#m        BB
Well I find that hard to believe


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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
  F# minorF#m                  BB
Hey ANZAC is this what you fought to keep free?
E MajorE            BB      G# minorG#m
A augmentedA land fit for heroes or homeless and poor
    E MajorE     F# minorF#m    BB
And it's waltzing Matilda no more

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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
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This country could still be what we want it to be
   E MajorE            BB     G# minorG#m
With care and compassion the dream well restore
      E MajorE     F# minorF#m     BB
And well go waltzing Matilda once more, yeah
    E MajorE     F# minorF#m     BB
Well go waltzing Matilda once more