《And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda(2003 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda(2003 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：The Very Best Of The Skids

歌手： Skids

时长： 05:33

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When I was a young man I carried my pack [00:00:00]

And I lived the free life of a rover [00:00:05]

From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback [00:00:10]

I waltzed my matilda all over [00:00:15]

Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son [00:00:19]

It's time to stop rambling cause there's work to be done [00:00:24]

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun [00:00:29]

And they sent me away to the war [00:00:33]

And the band played waltzing matilda [00:00:38]

As we sailed away from the quay [00:00:43]

And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers [00:00:47]

We sailed off to gallipoli [00:00:53]

How well I remember that terrible day [00:00:58]

The blood stained the sand and the water [00:01:03]

And how in that hell that they called suvla bay [00:01:08]

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter [00:01:13]

Johnny turk he was ready he primed himself well [00:01:18]

He us with bullets he rained us with shells [00:01:23]

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell [00:01:28]

Nearly blew us right back to australia [00:01:33]

But the band played waltzing matilda [00:01:39]

As we stopped to bury our slain [00:01:44]

And we buried ours and the turks buried theirs [00:01:48]

Then started all over again [00:01:56]

Now those try to survive [00:01:58]

In mad world of blood death and fire [00:02:03]

And for weeks I kept myself alive [00:02:08]

Around me they cought hear [00:02:13]

Then a big turkish shell knocked me arse over tit [00:02:18]

And when I woke up in my hospital bed [00:02:23]

And saw what it had done I wished I was dead [00:02:27]

Never knew there were worse things than dying [00:02:33]

No more I'll go waltzing matilda [00:02:39]

The green far and near [00:02:44]

For to hump tent and pegs a man needs two legs [00:02:48]

No more waltzing matilda for me [00:02:54]

So they collected the cripples the wounded maimed [00:02:59]

And they shipped us back home to australia [00:03:04]

The blind insane the young bluse black down thing [00:03:09]

Those proud wounded heroes of suvla­­­ [00:03:14]

And as our ship pulled into circular quay [00:03:18]

I looked at the place where legs used to be [00:03:22]

And thank christ there was nobody waiting for me [00:03:27]

To grieve and to mourn and to pity [00:03:33]

And the band played waltzing matilda [00:03:39]

As they carried us down the gangway [00:03:44]

But nobody cheered they just stood and stared [00:03:48]

Turned all their faces away [00:03:54]

And now every april I sit on my porch [00:03:59]

And I watch the parade pass before me [00:04:04]

And now my old comrades how proudly they march [00:04:09]

Reliving dreams of past glory [00:04:14]

New men much slowly you bunch handsome [00:04:19]

The forgotten heroes a forgotten war [00:04:24]

And the young people ask what are they marching for [00:04:29]

And I ask myself the same question [00:04:33]

And the band plays waltzing matilda [00:04:39]

And the old men answer to the call [00:04:44]

But year after year their numbers get fewer [00:04:48]

Some day no one will march there at all [00:04:54]

Waltzing matilda waltzing matilda [00:05:01]

Who'll a-waltzing matilda with me [00:05:07]

And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong [00:05:14]

So who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me [00:05:22]