歌曲名 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda 歌手名 Nathan Lay

作词：Eric Bogle

作曲：Eric Bogle

When i was a young man i carried my pack

And i lived the free life of a rover

From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback

I waltzed my matilda all over

Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son

It's time to stop rambling cause there's work to be done

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

And they sent me away to the war

And the band played waltzing matilda

As we sailed away from the quay

And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers

We sailed off to gallipoli

How well i remember that terrible day

The blood stained the sand and the water

And how in that hell that they called suvla bay

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

Johnny turk he was ready he primed himself well

He us with bullets he rained us with shells

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell

Nearly blew us right back to australia

But the band played waltzing matilda

As we stopped to bury our slain

And we buried ours and the turks buried theirs

Then it started all over again

Oh those that were living just tried to survive

In that mad world of blood death and fire

And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive

While around me the corpses piled higher

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head

And when I awoke in me hospital bed

And saw what it had done I wished I was dead

I never knew there was worse things than dying

Oh no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda

All around the green bush far and near

For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs

No more waltzing Matilda for me

They collected the wounded the crippled the maimed

And they shipped us back home to Australia

The armless the legless the blind and the insane

Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

And when the ship pulled into Circular Quay

I looked at the place where me legs used to be

And thank Christ there was no one there waiting for me

To grieve and to mourn and to pity

And the Band played Waltzing Matilda

When they carried us down the gangway

Oh nobody cheered they just stood there and stared

Then they turned all their faces away

Now every April I sit on my porch

And I watch the parade pass before me

And I see my old comrades how proudly they march

Renewing their dreams of past glories

I say the

New men much slowly you bunch handsome

The forgotten heroes a forgotten war

And the young people ask what are they marching for

And i ask myself the same question

And the band plays waltzing matilda

And the old men answer to the call

But year after year their numbers get fewer

Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing matilda waltzing matilda

Who'll a waltzing matilda with me

And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong

So who'll come a waltzing matilda with me