Chords for Waltzing Matilda

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_ [Fm] _ _ [Ebm] Waltzing Matilda is a song about an Australian [Dm] hobo, I guess you'd call him.
He wanders through the [F] bushland of Australia and he [C] takes all his meagre
belongings wrapped up in [Cm] an old blanket [Eb] which is strung across his shoulders
with an old piece of twine and this is [F] called his swag, hence the name Swagman.
Now affectionately or otherwise he refers to this swag [Eb] as Matilda, like his
only companion and as he wanders [Bm] through the bush tracks he finds himself
talking [Eb] to it as if it's a real person.
So the term Waltzing [Ab] Matilda has nothing
to [Abm] do with dancing at all, it means in fact [Eb] carrying this thing on your back
through the long lonely [F] stretches of the Australian bush.
[Fm] A couple of other terms
quickly, _ pay attention [Eb] because I will be asking questions afterwards about this.
_ _ A couple of other terms, a billabong is a pool of deep water, a [F] billy is a little
tin can they boil [C] the tea in, a [Eb] jumbuck is a sheep, _ [G] a tucker bag is [Ebm] a bag for
carrying tucker. _
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A food [Eb] bag, a tucker is food, it's a [Bm] food bag, sorry like a knapsack.
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_ [Bb] What else, the squatter is the big landowner.
_ _ That's enough, let's get on with the song. _
_ Once a jolly [Eb] swagman camped by a billabong under [Bb] the shade of the
koolabah tree [Eb] and he sang [Bb] as he watched [Eb] and waited till his billy boiled.
You'll come a [Bb] Waltzing Matilda with me.
[Eb] _
Waltzing [Ab] Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, [Eb] you'll come a Waltzing [Bb]
Matilda with [Eb] me.
And he sang as [Bb] he watched [Eb] and waited till his billy boiled.
You'll come a [Bb] Waltzing Matilda with me.
_ _ Then down came a jumbuck to [Eb] drink at that billabong.
Up jumped the [Dm] swagman and grabbed him with [Bb] glee.
And he sang as he [Eb] shoved that jumbuck in his tucker [Bb] bag.
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
[Eb] _ Waltzing [Ab] Matilda, Waltzing [Eb] Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing [Bb] Matilda with me.
And [Eb] he sang [Bb] as he shoved [Eb] that [Ab] jumbuck in his tucker [Eb] bag.
You'll come a Waltzing [Bb] Matilda with me. _
[Eb] Then down came the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred.
Down came the troopers.
One, two, three. _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] Righto, where's that jolly jumbuck that you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a [Bb] Waltzing Matilda with me.
[Eb] _ Waltzing Matilda, [Ab] _
Waltzing [Eb] Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing [Bb] Matilda with me.
[Eb] Righto, where's that jolly [Bb] jumbuck [Eb] that you've got in [Ab] your tucker bag?
[Eb] You'll come a [Bb] Waltzing Matilda with me. _ _
So [Eb] up jumped [Bb] the swagman and he [Eb] sprang into that billabong.
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_ [Bb] _ _ You'll never take me alive, said [Eb] he. _ _
_ _ [Cm] And his ghost _ [G] may be heard _ as you pass [Abm] by that billabong.
_ [Eb] _ You'll [F] come a _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Waltzing Matilda, [Ab] _
Waltzing Matilda, _ [Eb] you'll come a Waltzing [Bb] Matilda with me.
[Eb] And his ghost [Bb] may be heard as [Eb] you pass by [Ab] that [Eb] billabong.
You'll come a Waltzing [Bb] Matilda [Eb] with me.
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