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.
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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.
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[Gm] I'm tired of all [C] these soldiers [F] here.
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[Am] [F] [Bb] No one speaks English, [F] everything's broken.
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[G] And my Stacy's a so good [C] way to go.
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Hossie [Gm] Matilda, [F] .
[Bb] Hossie Matilda, [F] you go [Dm] Hossie [Gm] .
[F] Matilda with [C] me.
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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.
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[C] And [Bb] all the bush mills are staggered.
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[F] And as you buried the dagger [G] in your silhouette window.
[C] And I'm to go.
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Hossie [Gm] Matilda, [F] [A] .
Hossie [Bb] Matilda, [F] you go [Dm] Hossie [Gm] .
Matilda with [C] me.
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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.
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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.
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[C] And he howls, go.
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Hossie [Gm] Matilda, [A] .
[Bb] Hossie Matilda, [F].
you come [Dm] Hossie .
[Gm] Matilda [C] with me.
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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.
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[F] .
Hossie [Gm] Matilda, [F] [A] .
Hossie [Bb] Matilda, [F] you come [Dm] Hossie [Gm] .
Matilda [C] with me.
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And it's [Bb] a battered old suitcase,.
[F] Into a hotel someplace,.
And [Gm] a wound that will [C] never [F] heal.
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[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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