Matilda No More-Slim Dusty

[ti:Matilda No More] [ar:Slim Dusty] [al:Looking Forward Looking Back] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Matilda No More - Slim Dusty (西林·得斯提) [00:05.54]Once Jolly swagmen went humpin' their swags [00:09.77]And stuffed jolly jumbucks in their tuckerbags [00:13.67] [00:15.01]These days jolly junkies go on bag snatchin jags [00:19.42] [00:20.67]And steal to buy the poison they need [00:23.83] [00:24.84]The old swaggie just wanted a feed [00:27.80] [00:29.65]And who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me [00:33.15] [00:34.07]Oh Banjo this country's not what it used to be [00:38.23]We've changed all your words and rewritten your score [00:42.53] [00:43.64]Now it's waltzing Matilda no more [00:47.26] [00:52.51]Once Henry and Mary on a warm afternoon [00:56.94]Rode down a reedy river to the broad bright lagoon [01:01.27] [01:02.67]The song of the river is a long vanished tune [01:06.75] [01:07.77]Since they built the uranium mine [01:11.25] [01:12.27]What's just left now is just toxic slime [01:15.43] [01:16.70]And who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me [01:20.40] [01:21.17]Oh Henry this country's not what it used to be [01:25.30]Days pass with a whimper and not with the roar [01:29.44] [01:30.61]And it's waltzing Matilda no more [01:34.15] [01:39.64]We cut down the trees and the land we reclaimed [01:43.67]We ploughed and we planted [01:45.77]Then we ploughed once again [01:47.68] [01:49.10]And again and again and again and again [01:53.76] [01:54.43]So now on a hot windy day [01:57.59] [01:58.88]We can watch our topsoil blown away [02:01.97] [02:03.40]And who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me [02:07.01] [02:07.79]The desert is marching down to the sea [02:12.01]On the day that it stretches from shore to far shore [02:16.17] [02:17.39]We'll go waltzing Matilda no more [02:20.84] [02:26.46]Saturday night outside a Kings Cross hotel [02:30.09] [02:30.96]Kids with hard drugs and soft bodies to sell [02:34.80] [02:36.35]Australia these children are halfway to hell [02:40.41] [02:41.40]Oh is this the best deal you can give [02:44.31] [02:46.08]Well I find that hard to believe [02:48.98] [02:50.31]And who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me [02:54.42]Hey ANZAC is this what you fought to keep free [02:58.94]A land fit for heroes or homeless and poor [03:03.39] [03:04.03]And it's waltzing Matilda no more [03:07.29] [03:08.67]And who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me [03:12.33] [03:12.86]This country could still be what we want it to be [03:16.70] [03:17.27]With care and compassion the dream we'll restore [03:21.96] [03:22.47]And we'll go waltzing Matilda once more yeah [03:26.06] [03:26.85]We'll go waltzing Matilda once more