[00:07.00] [00:09.77]When I was a young man I carried my pack [00:15.70]And I lived the free life of a rover [00:22.81]From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback [00:29.62]I waltzed my matilda all over [00:36.61]Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son [00:43.46]It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done [00:50.15]So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun [00:57.15]And they sent me away to the war [01:01.15] [01:03.95]And the band played Waltzing Matilda [01:10.53]As we sailed away from the quay [01:17.38]And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers [01:24.03]We sailed off to Gallipoli [01:31.18]How well I remember that terrible day [01:37.58]When the blood stained the sand and the water [01:45.07]And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay [01:51.42]We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter [01:58.38]Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well [02:05.58]He showered us with bullets, he rained us with shells [02:12.03]And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell [02:18.98]Nearly blew us right back to Australia [02:23.00] [02:25.71]But the band played waltzing Matilda [02:32.36]As we stopped to bury our slain [02:39.41]And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs [02:46.31]Then it started all over again [02:53.29]Now those who were living did their best to survive [03:00.04]In that mad world of death, blood and fire [03:07.08]And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive [03:13.93]While the corpses around me piled higher [03:20.78]Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit [03:27.59]And when I woke up in my hospital bed [03:34.49]And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was dead [03:41.27]Never knew there were worse things than dying [03:48.62]And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda [03:55.31]To the green bushes so far and near [04:02.14]For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs [04:09.00]No more waltzing Matilda for me [04:21.19] [04:33.19] [04:45.19] [04:48.27]So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed [04:55.07]And they shipped us back home to Australia [05:02.10]The legless, the armless, the blind and insane [05:08.85]Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla [05:15.70]And as our ship pulled into circular quay [05:22.75]I looked at the place where me legs used to be [05:29.25]And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me [05:36.08]To grieve and to mourn and to pity [05:40.00] [05:42.92]And the band played Waltzing Matilda [05:49.72]As they carried us down the gangway [05:57.07]But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared [06:03.71]And they turned all their faces away [06:10.75]And now every April I sit on my porch [06:17.11]And I watch the parade pass before me [06:24.17]I see my old comrades, how proudly they march [06:30.60]Reliving the or their dreams of past glory [06:37.85]i see the old men, all twisted and torn [06:44.60]The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war [06:51.29]And the young people ask me, "what are they marching for?" [06:58.15]And I ask myself the same question [07:04.89]And the band plays Waltzing Matilda [07:11.64]And the old men still answer to the call [07:18.64]But year after year their numbers get fewer [07:25.14]Some day no one will march there at all [07:32.55]Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda [07:39.30]Who'll go a-Waltzing Matilda with me? [07:49.17]