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And the band played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle

from Mike Hiltonwood i951612@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au

CWhen I was a Fyoung man I Ccarried a pAmack and I Clived the free G7life of a Crover. >From Fthe Murray's Cgreen banAmks to the dusty outback I Cwaltzed my G7Matilda all Cover. ThG7en in nineteen fifteFen my country Csaid "son", ThG7ere's no time for rovin' thFere's work G7to be done! AndC they gaveF me a tin hCat and gaveAm me a gun AndC they seG7nt me away tCo the war.
Choruss
CAnd the band played FWaltzing MatCilda As the shDmip pulled away from the quay, G7 and amidst all the Fcheers, the flag Cwaving and Amtears, We Csailed off for G7GallipoCli
2. How well I remember that terrible day How our blood stained the sand and the water And how in that hell they called Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter Johhny Turk he was waiting, he'd primed himself well He showered us with bullets, and rained us with shell, And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us to hell Nearly blew us right back to Australia And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda As we stopped to bury the slain We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, Then we started all over again 3. They collected the crippled, the wounded and maimed And they shipped us back home to Australia The armless the legless, the blind and insane, All the brave heroes of Suvla And when our ship pulled in to Circular Quay, I looked at the place where my legs used to be, And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me - To grieve, to mourn and to pity. And the band played Waltzing Matilda, As they carried us down the gangway, But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared - And they turned all their faces away. 4. And so now every April I sit on my porch, And I watch the parade pass before me, And I see my old comrades how proudly they march, Reviving old dreams and past glories, But the old men march slowly their bones stiff and sore, Tired old men from a tired old war, And the young people ask what are they marching for, And I ask myself the same question. But the band played Waltzing Matilda And the old men still answer the call, But year by year more old men disappear Soon no one will march there at all. From: rodi@ikp.uni-koeln.de (Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg) Subject: Re: REQ: 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda' - Eric Bogle Date: 31 Aug 92 12:44:17 > Hi folks, > Does anyone have the chords for 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda', > by Eric Bogle? Well, I don't know the Eric Bogle version, but I once had a tape of some Tommy Makum & Ian Clency (Hope I spelled their names right..) live concert where they played this and they used the following cords. Just try 'em and see if they fit. It's in a swingy 3/4 or maybe 6/8. And the band played Waltzing Matilda
CWhen I was a Fyoung man I Ccarried my Apack and I Clived the free Glife of a Crover. C>From theF murray greenC basin to theC dusty ouAtback I Cwaltzed my GMatilda all Cover. Then Gnineteen fifteen my Fcountry said "Cson, It's Gtime you stopped ramblin' there's Fwork to be Cdone!" And they gave me a Atin hat and they Cgave me a Agun And they Csent me Gaway to the Cwar. C F? C But the band played "Waltzing Matilda" As the Cship pulled Faway from the Gquay, But Famid all the Dtears, the flag Cwaving and Fcheers, They Csent us to GGalipoliCs ^^^ sp.?
And so forth. Cheers, Rodi -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg | rodi@ikp.uni-koeln.de Institut fuer Kernphysik der | Tel ++221 / 470 3636 Universitaet zu Koeln | Fax ++221 / 470 5168 Zuelpicher Str. 77 | W-5000 Koeln 41 | Germany | ---------------------------------------------------------------------