《Band Played Waltzing Matilda》歌词

歌曲： Band Played Waltzing Matilda

所属专辑：Behind the Lines (Expanded Edition)

歌手： John Schumann and The Vag

时长： 04:41

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Band Played Waltzing Matilda - John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew[00:00:00]

Written by：Eric Bogle[00:00:00]

When I was a young man I carried my pack[00:00:09]

And I lived the free life of a rover[00:00:14]

From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback[00:00:18]

I waltzed my Matilda all over[00:00:23]

Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son[00:00:28]

It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done[00:00:32]

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun[00:00:37]

And they sent me away to the war[00:00:42]

And the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:00:47]

As we sailed away from the quay[00:00:51]

And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers[00:00:56]

We sailed off to Gallipoli[00:01:00]

How well I remember that terrible day[00:01:13]

How the blood stained the sand and the water[00:01:18]

And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay[00:01:22]

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter[00:01:27]

Johnny Turk he was ready he primed himself well[00:01:32]

He chased us with bullets he rained us with shells[00:01:36]

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell[00:01:41]

Nearly blew us right back to Australia[00:01:46]

But the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:01:50]

As we stopped to bury our slain[00:01:55]

We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs[00:01:59]

Then we started all over again[00:02:05]

Now those that were left well we tried to survive[00:02:17]

In a mad world of blood death and fire[00:02:21]

And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive[00:02:26]

But around me the corpses piled higher[00:02:31]

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit[00:02:36]

And when I woke up in my hospital bed[00:02:40]

And saw what it had done I wished I was dead[00:02:45]

Never knew there were worse things than dying[00:02:50]

For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda[00:02:54]

All around the green bush far and near[00:02:59]

For to hump tent and pegs a man needs two legs[00:03:04]

No more waltzing Matilda for me[00:03:08]

And now every April I sit on my porch[00:03:30]

And I watch the parade pass before me[00:03:35]

And I watch my old comrades how proudly they march[00:03:39]

Reliving old dreams of past glory[00:03:44]

And the old men march slowly all bent stiff and sore[00:03:49]

The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war[00:03:54]

And the young people ask What are they marching for[00:03:58]

And I ask myself the same question[00:04:03]

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda[00:04:07]

And the old men answer to the call[00:04:12]

But year after year their numbers get fewer[00:04:16]

Some day no one will march there at all[00:04:23]