Chords for Tom Waits. Waltzing Matilda [aka: Tom Traubert's Blues] Live at Rockpalast 1977.

[F] _ [Gm] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ .
_ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ [F] Well I close with [Bb] a song called [F] Hossie Matilda.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ .
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ .
[F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ .
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ .
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_ [F] _ _ _ Hossie [Gm] Matilda, _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] Hossie _ Matilda, [F] you _ go [Dm] _ .
Hossie _ [Gm] _ Matilda with [C] me.
_ And _ _ I'm [Bb] an innocent victim _ _ of [F] a blinded alley.
_ _ .
_ [Gm] I'm tired of all [C] these _ _ soldiers [F] here.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ .
[Am] _ [F] _ [Bb] No one speaks English, _ _ [F] _ everything's broken.
_ .
_ [G] And my _ _ Stacy's a so good _ _ [C] _ way _ to go.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ .
Hossie [Gm] Matilda, _ _ [F] _ _ .
_ [Bb] Hossie _ Matilda, [F] you _ go [Dm] _ Hossie _ [Gm] _ .
[F] Matilda with [C] _ me.
_ .
_ _ And all [Bb] the dogs are barking, _ _ _ [F] and the taxi cab's parking.
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] Lord, they [C] can do [F] for me.
_ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ And [Bb] I beg you to stamp me.
[F] And as you tore my shirt open,.
_ [G] And I'm towing on my _ knees.
_ .
[C] _ _ _ And _ _ [Bb] all the bush mills are staggered.
_ .
[F] And as you buried the dagger _ [G] in your _ silhouette _ window.
_ [C] And _ _ I'm to _ go.
_ [F] _ _ _ .
Hossie [Gm] Matilda, _ _ [F] _ [A] _ .
Hossie [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [F] you _ go [Dm] _ Hossie _ [Gm] _ .
Matilda with [C] _ me.
_ _ .
_ And though [Bb] I've lost my Saint Christopher,.
_ _ _ [F] _ Though that I've kissed her,.
_ [Gm] And the one-armed _ [C] man didn't know [F] her, _ .
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Am] _ [F] [Bb] And the maverick gentleman,.
_ _ And [F] all these cold-blooded signs,.
_ And [Gm] the girls down by the [C] _ .
strip-tee show,.
And I'm to _ go.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ .
Hossie [Gm] _ Matilda, [A] _ _ _ .
Hossie [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [F] you _ go [Dm] _ Hossie _ [Gm] _ .
_ Matilda [C] with me.
_ .
_ _ _ And [Bb] no, I don't want your sympathy.
_ As _ [F] the fugitives say,.
_ [Gm] That the streets aren't [C] for _ dreaming, [F] no.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] And the manslaughtered dragnet say,.
_ [F] And all these ghosts that sell memory,.
_ [Gm] They're but a piece of the action.
_ .
[C] _ _ And he _ _ howls, go.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ .
_ Hossie [Gm] _ Matilda, _ [A] _ .
_ _ [Bb] Hossie _ Matilda, [F].
you _ come [Dm] _ Hossie _ .
[Gm] _ Matilda [C] with me.
_ .
_ _ _ _ And you [Bb] can ask any _ _ sailor,.
_ [F] And the kids from the jailer,.
_ [D] [Gm] But the old man in [C] the _ wheelchair [F].
knows,.
_ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _ [F] _ [Bb] That Matilda's the defendant,.
_ _ And [F] she's killed about a hundred,.
_ And [Gm] she follows wherever _ _ _ .
[C] you _ may go.
_ .
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ .
Hossie [Gm] Matilda, _ _ [F] _ [A] _ .
Hossie [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [F] you _ come [Dm] _ Hossie _ [Gm] _ .
Matilda [C] with me.
_ _ .
_ _ _ And it's [Bb] a battered old suitcase,.
_ _ _ [F] Into a hotel someplace,.
_ And [Gm] a wound that will [C] _ never [F] heal.
_ .
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] No prima _ _ _ donna,.
[F] And not a _ perfumison,.
_ _ An old [Gm].
shirt that is [C] _ stained with [F].
blood and whiskey.
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] And good night to the street sweepers,.
_ [F] And all the night watchmen, flame _ _ keepers,.
And good night _ _ _ [C] _ .
Matilda.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ .
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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_ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ .
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ .