《The Band Played Waltzing Matilda》歌词

歌曲： The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

所属专辑：30 Years (Explicit)

歌手： The Pogues

时长： 08:15

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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues[00:00:01]

When I was a young man[00:00:10]

I carried my pack[00:00:13]

And I lived the free life of a rover[00:00:16]

From the Murrays green[00:00:23]

Basin to the dusty outback[00:00:25]

I waltzed my Matilda all over[00:00:30]

Then in nineteen fifteen[00:00:37]

My country said Son[00:00:40]

It's time to stop rambling[00:00:44]

'Cause there's work to be done[00:00:47]

So they gave me a tin hat[00:00:50]

And they gave me a gun[00:00:54]

They And sent me away to the war[00:00:57]

And the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:01:04]

As we sailed away from the quay[00:01:11]

And amidst all the tears[00:01:17]

And the shouts and the cheers[00:01:21]

We sailed off to Gallipoli[00:01:25]

How well I remember that terrible day[00:01:31]

The the blood stained the sand[00:01:38]

And the water[00:01:41]

And how in that hell[00:01:45]

That they called Suvla Bay[00:01:48]

We were butchered like[00:01:52]

Lambs at the slaughter[00:01:53]

Johnny Turk he was ready [00:01:59]

He primed himself well[00:02:02]

He chased us with bullets [00:02:06]

And he rained us with shells[00:02:09]

And in five minutes flat[00:02:13]

He'd blown us all to hell[00:02:16]

Nearly blew us[00:02:19]

Right back to Australia[00:02:21]

But the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:02:26]

As we stopped to bury our slain[00:02:34]

And we buried ours[00:02:40]

And the Turks buried theirs[00:02:44]

Then we started all over again[00:02:47]

Now those that were left [00:02:54]

Well we tried to survive[00:02:57]

In a mad world of blood [00:03:01]

Death and fire[00:03:05]

And for seven long weeks[00:03:08]

I kept myself alive[00:03:12]

While the corpses around[00:03:15]

Me piled higher[00:03:17]

Then a big Turkish shell[00:03:22]

Knocked me arse over tit[00:03:25]

And when I woke up[00:03:29]

In my hospital bed[00:03:32]

And saw what it had done [00:03:35]

Christ I wished I was dead[00:03:39]

Never knew there were worse[00:03:42]

Things than dying[00:03:45]

And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda[00:03:49]

To the green bushes so far and near[00:03:56]

For to hump tent and pegs [00:04:03]

A man needs two legs[00:04:07]

No more waltzing Matilda for me[00:04:10]

So they collected the cripples [00:04:50]

The wounded the maimed[00:04:54]

And they shipped us[00:04:57]

Back home to Australia[00:04:58]

The legless the armless [00:05:04]

The blind the insane[00:05:07]

Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla[00:05:11]

And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay[00:05:17]

I looked at the place[00:05:24]

Where me legs used to be[00:05:27]

And thank Christ[00:05:31]

There was nobody waiting for me[00:05:32]

To grieve and to mourn and to pity[00:05:38]

And the band played Waltzing Matilda[00:05:45]

As they carried us down the gangway[00:05:51]

But nobody cheered [00:05:58]

They just stood and stared[00:06:02]

Then turned all their faces away[00:06:05]

And now every April I sit on my porch[00:06:12]

And I watch the parade pass before me[00:06:19]

And I see my old comrades [00:06:26]

How proudly they march[00:06:29]

Reliving their dreams of past glory[00:06:33]

I see the old men all twisted and torn[00:06:39]

The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war[00:06:47]

And the young people ask me [00:06:53]

What are they Marching for [00:06:56]

And I ask myself the same question[00:07:00]

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

And the old men still answer to the call[00:07:14]

But year after year[00:07:21]

Their numbers get fewer[00:07:24]

Some day no one will march there at all[00:07:27]

Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda[00:07:35]

Who'll go a waltzing Matilda with me[00:07:41]