And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (2003 Digital Remaster)-Skids

[00:00.30]When I was a young man I carried my pack [00:05.77]And I lived the free life of a rover [00:10.32]From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback [00:15.21]I waltzed my matilda all over [00:19.62]Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son [00:24.16]It's time to stop rambling cause there's work to be done [00:29.36]So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun [00:33.77]And they sent me away to the war [00:38.79]And the band played waltzing matilda [00:43.47]As we sailed away from the quay [00:47.79]And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers [00:53.36]We sailed off to gallipoli [00:58.79]How well I remember that terrible day [01:03.80]The blood stained the sand and the water [01:08.36]And how in that hell that they called suvla bay [01:13.30]We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter [01:18.25]Johnny turk he was ready he primed himself well [01:23.35]He us with bullets he rained us with shells [01:28.59]And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell [01:33.98]Nearly blew us right back to australia [01:39.53]But the band played waltzing matilda [01:44.07]As we stopped to bury our slain [01:48.36]And we buried ours and the turks buried theirs [01:56.06]Then started all over again [01:58.96]Now those try to survive [02:03.81]In mad world of blood death and fire [02:08.41]And for weeks I kept myself alive [02:13.92]Around me they cought hear [02:18.61]Then a big turkish shell knocked me arse over tit [02:23.00]And when I woke up in my hospital bed [02:27.66]And saw what it had done I wished I was dead [02:33.44]Never knew there were worse things than dying [02:39.27]No more I'll go waltzing matilda [02:44.12]The green far and near [02:48.46]For to hump tent and pegs a man needs two legs [02:54.11]No more waltzing matilda for me [02:59.71]So they collected the cripples the wounded maimed [03:04.70]And they shipped us back home to australia [03:09.08]The blind insane the young bluse black down thing [03:14.07]Those proud wounded heroes of suvla­­­ [03:18.64]And as our ship pulled into circular quay [03:22.66]I looked at the place where legs used to be [03:27.11]And thank christ there was nobody waiting for me [03:33.83]To grieve and to mourn and to pity [03:39.32]And the band played waltzing matilda [03:44.03]As they carried us down the gangway [03:48.19]But nobody cheered they just stood and stared [03:54.25]Turned all their faces away [03:59.75]And now every april I sit on my porch [04:04.53]And I watch the parade pass before me [04:09.30]And now my old comrades how proudly they march [04:14.31]Reliving dreams of past glory [04:19.06]New men much slowly you bunch handsome [04:24.36]The forgotten heroes a forgotten war [04:29.00]And the young people ask what are they marching for [04:33.96]And I ask myself the same question [04:39.39]And the band plays waltzing matilda [04:44.25]And the old men answer to the call [04:48.55]But year after year their numbers get fewer [04:54.22]Some day no one will march there at all [05:01.08]Waltzing matilda waltzing matilda [05:07.70]Who'll a-waltzing matilda with me [05:14.01]And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong [05:22.16]So who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me [05:28.94]