And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Chords by John Williamson

_ _ _ Well I've got heaps of lively numbers coming up on the last set, _ but _ right now I'd like to do one that's been probably one of the most requested songs _ _ that I get around the pubs, and I've been dying to record this one. _ _
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_ _ _ _ It needs no [A] introduction.
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_ _ [A] _ [D] was a young man [A] I carried a pack _ I lived the [E] free life of a [A] rover _ _
From the Murray's [D] green basin [E] to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over _ _ _
Then in _ _ [B] 1915 [D] my country [A] said son [E] there's no [B] time for roving [D]
there's work to [A] be done
And they gave me [D] a tin hat and [A] they gave [C#] me a gun _ _
_ [A] And they sent [E] me away to [A] the war _
_ And the band [D]
played [A] waltzing Matilda
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_ As a ship pulled away from the [B] quay
_ [D] And amidst [A] all the cheers the flag waving [F#] and tears [C#] _ we [A] set off [E] for _ [A] Gallipoli
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_ _ _ _ How well I [D] remember [A] that terrible [E] day _ when our blood stained the sand and the water
_ _ _ [A] And how in [D] that hell they [A]
called Suvla Bay we were butchered [E] like lambs at the slaughter
_ _ _ Johnny Turkey was waiting he [D]
primed himself [A] well
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Showered us with bullets and [D] he rained us [A] with shells and in five minutes [D] flat
_ [A] Well he blew us [F#] to hell _ _ [A] he nearly blew us [E] right back to Australia _ _
_ And the band [D] played waltzing [E] Matilda _ _ as we stopped to bury our slain _
_ _ [D] _ We [A] buried ours and the Turks [F#] buried _ theirs [E] then we started all over again _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So [A] those who were [D] left just [A]
tried to survive in a mad world [E] of blood death and fire
_ _ _ And [A] for ten [D] weary weeks I kept [A]
myself alive as the corpses [E] around me piled higher
_ _ Then a big turkey shell knocked [D] me arse [A] overhead
_ [E] And when I awoke [D] in my hospital [A] bed I saw what I'd [D] done _ [A] and I wished [F#] I was dead _ _
[A] Then I knew there [E] were worse things than dying _ _
And I'll go [D] no more waltzing [A] Matilda _ [E] _
_ all through the green bush far and free
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Cause [D] to hunt and ten [A]
peg a man [F#] needs both legs [C#] _ no [E] more waltzing Matilda for me _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] They collected [D] the crippled [A] the [E] wounded the _ maimed shipped us all back to Australia
_ _ _ [A] The legless [D] the armless [A] the blind and insane the brave [E] wounded heroes [A] of Subla
_ _ _ [E] And as our ship pulled in [D] the circular [A] quay _ _ [E]
I looked at the place [D] where my legs used [A] to be
And I thank Christ [D] there was [A] nobody waiting [F#] for me _ _ [E] to mourn and to grieve and to be jeered
_ [A] And the band [D]
played [A] waltzing Matilda [E] _
_ as they carried us down the [E] _ gangway
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_ _ [D] Nobody _ [A]
cheered they just stood [F#] and stared _ _ [A] then turned [E] all their faces _ away _ _ _ _
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[A] And now [D] every April [A] I sit on the porch as I watch the [E] parade [A] pass before me
_ _ I see my [D] old comrades [A] how proudly they march _ reviving [E] old dreams and past glories
_ But the old men march slowly [D] bone stiff [A] and sore _
[E] tired [B] old men [D] from a tired [A] old war
And the young [D] people ask _
[A] what are they [F#] marching for? _
_ _ _ [E] And I ask myself the same question _ _ and the band [D] plays waltzing [A] Matilda
_ [E] _ As the old men still answer the call [B] _ _ [E] and year [A] after year more old men _ [F#] disappear _ _ _
[E] Soon none of them will march there at all _ _
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