The Band Played Waltzing Matilda-Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy

[ti:The Band Played Waltzing Matilda] [ar:Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy] [al:Makem & Clancy Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy [00:06.00]Now when i was a young man and i carried my pack [00:10.22] [00:10.92]And i lived the free life of the rover [00:14.81] [00:15.98]From the murray's green basin to the dusty out back [00:20.35] [00:21.13]I waltzed my matilda all over [00:24.50] [00:26.40]Then in 1915 my country said 'son [00:31.48]It's time to stop rambling there's work to be done' [00:36.30] [00:36.87]And they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun [00:42.44] [00:43.27]And they sent me away to the war [00:46.29] [00:48.59]And the band played waltzing matilda [00:51.89] [00:53.32]As the ships pulled away from the quay [00:57.00] [00:58.89]And amid all the tears flag waving and cheers [01:04.27] [01:05.05]We sailed off to galipolli [01:08.95] [01:10.52]And how i remember that terrible day [01:15.24]How our blood stained the sand and the water [01:18.66] [01:20.43]And how in that hell that they called suvla bay [01:25.00] [01:25.58]We were butchered like lambs to the slaughter [01:29.48] [01:30.50]Johnnie turk was ready oh he primed himself well [01:35.96]He rained us with bullets and he showered us with shell [01:40.95]And in five minutes flat we were all blown to hell [01:46.14] [01:47.48]Nearly blew us all back home to australia [01:51.50] [01:52.91]But the band played waltzing matilda [01:56.22] [01:57.83]As we stuck to bury our slain [02:00.83] [02:03.71]We burned ours and the turks buried theirs [02:07.55] [02:09.36]And we started all over again [02:13.00] [02:15.11]Those who were living just tried to survive [02:19.81]In a mad world of blood death and fire [02:24.02] [02:25.11]And for ten weary weeks i kept myself alive [02:29.41] [02:30.08]While around me the corpses piled higher [02:33.67] [02:34.87]Then a big turkish shell knocked me arse over head [02:39.64] [02:40.44]And when i awoke in my hospital bed [02:44.62] [02:45.13]And saw what it had done and i wished i was dead [02:50.21] [02:52.10]Never knew there were worse things than dying [02:55.93] [02:57.67]For no more i'll go waltzing matilda [03:01.42] [03:02.77]All round the green bush far and near [03:06.49] [03:07.77]For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs [03:13.37] [03:14.36]No more waltzing matilda for me [03:18.27] [03:19.75]They collected the wounded the crippled the maimed [03:24.91]And they shipped us back home to australia [03:29.39] [03:30.13]The armless the legless the blind the insane [03:34.37] [03:35.02]Those proud wounded heroes of suvla [03:39.01] [03:40.27]And as our ship pulled in to circular key [03:44.94] [03:45.47]And i looked at the place where my legs used to be [03:50.10]I thanked christ there was no one there waiting for me [03:54.49] [03:56.44]To grieve and to mourn and to pity [04:00.99] [04:01.64]And the band played waltzing matilda [04:05.90] [04:06.73]As they carried us down the gangway [04:10.51] [04:12.24]But nobody cheered they just stood there and stared [04:17.33] [04:18.50]And turned all their faces away [04:23.07] [04:26.60]So now every april i sit on my porch [04:31.47] [04:32.30]And i watch the parade pass before me [04:35.79] [04:37.69]And i see my old comrades how proudly they march [04:41.77] [04:42.52]Renewing their dreams of past glory [04:47.12] [04:47.98]I see the old men all tired stiff and sore [04:52.94] [04:53.47]The weary old heroes of a forgotten war [04:58.95]And the young people ask 'what are they marching for ' [05:04.88] [05:06.09]And i ask myself the same question [05:10.27] [05:11.15]And the band played waltzing matilda [05:15.03] [05:16.45]And the old men still answer the call [05:20.79] [05:21.97]But year after year the numbers get fewer [05:26.67] [05:28.25]Some day none will march there at all [05:32.70] [05:35.30]Waltzing matilda waltzing matilda [05:42.72] [05:43.91]Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me [05:49.78] [05:50.99]And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong [05:58.12] [05:59.22]Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me