The Band Played Waltzing Matilda-Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy

[ti:The Band Played Waltzing Matilda] [ar:Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy] [al:Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy [00:06.21]Now when i was a young man and i carried my pack [00:10.82] [00:11.38]And i lived the free life of the rover [00:15.71] [00:16.83]From the murray's green basin to the dusty out back [00:21.91]I waltzed my matilda all over [00:26.34] [00:27.54]Then in 1915 my country said 'son [00:32.18] [00:32.87]It's time to stop rambling there's work to be done' [00:38.05]And they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun [00:42.98] [00:44.81]And they sent me away to the war [00:47.86] [00:49.85]And the band played waltzing matilda [00:54.77] [00:55.53]As the ships pulled away from the quay [01:00.32] [01:01.27]And amid all the tears flag waving and cheers [01:07.06] [01:07.59]We sailed off to galipolli [01:11.96] [01:13.71]And how i remember that terrible day [01:18.95]How our blood stained the sand and the water [01:23.10] [01:24.46]And how in that hell that they called suvla bay [01:29.83]We were butchered like lambs to the slaughter [01:34.27] [01:35.01]Johnnie turk was ready oh he primed himself well [01:40.62]He rained us with bullets and he showered us with shell [01:46.07]And in five minutes flat we were all blown to hell [01:51.56] [01:53.07]Nearly blew us all back home to australia [01:56.82] [01:57.82]But the band played waltzing matilda [02:02.49] [02:03.98]As we stuck to bury our slain [02:08.34] [02:09.63]We burned ours and the turks buried theirs [02:14.98] [02:16.06]And we started all over again [02:19.84] [02:21.95]Those who were living just tried to survive [02:27.31]In a mad world of blood death and fire [02:31.05] [02:32.61]And for ten weary weeks i kept myself alive [02:37.55] [02:38.20]While around me the corpses piled higher [02:41.63] [02:43.37]Then a big turkish shell knocked me arse over head [02:48.86]And when i awoke in my hospital bed [02:54.31]And saw what it had done and i wished i was dead [03:00.16] [03:01.43]Never knew there were worse things than dying [03:05.74] [03:06.96]For no more i'll go waltzing matilda [03:11.14] [03:12.51]All round the green bush far and near [03:17.03] [03:18.33]For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs [03:24.49]No more waltzing matilda for me [03:29.25] [03:30.57]They collected the wounded the crippled the maimed [03:36.15]And they shipped us back home to australia [03:40.52] [03:41.76]The armless the legless the blind the insane [03:46.50] [03:47.10]Those proud wounded heroes of suvla [03:51.27] [03:52.63]And as our ship pulled in to circular key [03:58.00]And i looked at the place where my legs used to be [04:03.38]I thanked christ there was no one there waiting for me [04:08.79] [04:10.44]To grieve and to mourn and to pity [04:15.05] [04:15.88]And the band played waltzing matilda [04:21.03]As they carried us down the gangway [04:26.27] [04:27.30]But nobody cheered they just stood there and stared [04:33.26] [04:34.08]And turned all their faces away [04:38.53] [04:42.93]So now every april i sit on my porch [04:47.97] [04:48.58]And i watch the parade pass before me [04:53.16] [04:54.02]And i see my old comrades how proudly they march [04:59.09] [04:59.71]Renewing their dreams of past glory [05:04.38] [05:05.28]I see the old men all tired stiff and sore [05:10.92]The weary old heroes of a forgotten war [05:16.32]And the young people ask 'what are they marching for' [05:21.56] [05:23.68]And i ask myself the same question [05:27.50] [05:29.20]And the band played waltzing matilda [05:33.49] [05:35.30]And the old men still answer the call [05:39.99] [05:41.01]But year after year the numbers get fewer [05:46.60] [05:47.73]Some day none will march there at all [05:52.03] [05:54.83]Waltzing matilda waltzing matilda [06:02.11] [06:03.10]Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me [06:09.02] [06:09.94]And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong [06:17.48] [06:18.70]Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me