《The Band Played Waltzing Matilda》歌词

歌曲： The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

所属专辑：Red Roses for Me (Expanded Edition) [Explicit]

歌手： The Pogues

时长： 04:52

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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues[00:04:52]

When I was a young man I carried my pack[00:04:52]

And I lived the free life of a rover[00:04:52]

From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback[00:04:52]

I waltzed my Matilda all over[00:04:52]

Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son[00:04:52]

It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be [00:04:52]

done[00:04:52]

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun[00:04:52]

And they sent me away to the war[00:04:52]

And the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

As we sailed away from the quay[00:04:52]

And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the [00:04:52]

cheers[00:04:52]

We sailed off to Gallipoli[00:04:52]

How well I remember that terrible day[00:04:52]

When the blood stained the sand and the water[00:04:52]

And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay[00:04:52]

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter[00:04:52]

Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well[00:04:52]

He showered us with bullets, he rained us with [00:04:52]

shells[00:04:52]

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell[00:04:52]

Nearly blew us right back to Australia[00:04:52]

But the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

As we stopped to bury our slain[00:04:52]

And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs[00:04:52]

Then it started all over again[00:04:52]

Now those who were living did their best to survive[00:04:52]

In that mad world of blood, death and fire[00:04:52]

And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive[00:04:52]

While the corpses around me piled higher[00:04:52]

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit[00:04:52]

And when I woke up in my hospital bed[00:04:52]

And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was [00:04:52]

dead[00:04:52]

Never knew there were worse things than dying[00:04:52]

And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

To the green bushes so far and near[00:04:52]

For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs[00:04:52]

No more waltzing Matilda for me[00:04:52]

So they collected the cripples, the wounded and [00:04:52]

maimed[00:04:52]

And they shipped us back home to Australia[00:04:52]

The legless, the armless, the blind and insane[00:04:52]

Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla[00:04:52]

And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay[00:04:52]

I looked at the place where me legs used to be[00:04:52]

And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me[00:04:52]

To grieve and to mourn and to pity[00:04:52]

And the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

As they carried us down the gangway[00:04:52]

But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared[00:04:52]

And they turned all their faces away[00:04:52]

And now every April I sit on my porch[00:04:52]

And I watch the parade pass before me[00:04:52]

I see my old comrades, how proudly they march[00:04:52]

Reliving the or their dreams of past glory[00:04:52]

I see the old men, all twisted and torn[00:04:52]

The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war[00:04:52]

And the young people ask me, What are they [00:04:52]

marching for?[00:04:52]

And I ask myself the same question[00:04:52]

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

And the old men still answer to the call[00:04:52]

But year after year their numbers get fewer[00:04:52]

Some day no one will march there at all[00:04:52]

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda[00:04:52]

Who'll go a-waltzing Matilda with me?[00:04:52]