《The Band Played Waltzing Matilda》歌词

[00:00:00] The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Dubliners/Ronnie Drew

[00:00:04] When I was a young man I carried me pack

[00:00:09] And I lived the free life of the rover

[00:00:15] From the Murray's green basin

[00:00:18] To the dusty outback

[00:00:21] I waltzed my Matilda all over

[00:00:26] Then in 1915 my country said: Son

[00:00:32] It's time to stop rambling

[00:00:34] There's work to be done

[00:00:37] So they gave me a tin hat

[00:00:40] And they gave me a gun

[00:00:44] And they sent me away to the war

[00:00:50] And the band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:00:55] When the ship pulled away from the quay

[00:01:01] And amid all the tears

[00:01:04] Flag waving and cheers

[00:01:08] We sailed off for Gallipoli

[00:01:14] It well I remember that terrible day

[00:01:19] When our blood stained the sand and the water

[00:01:25] And how in that hell they call Suvla Bay

[00:01:30] We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

[00:01:36] Johnny Turk he was ready

[00:01:39] He primed himself well

[00:01:42] He rained us with bullets

[00:01:44] And he showered us with shell

[00:01:47] And in five minutes flat

[00:01:50] We were all blown to hell

[00:01:54] He nearly blew us back home to Australia

[00:02:00] And the band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:02:05] When we stopped to bury our slain

[00:02:11] Well we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs

[00:02:18] Then it started all over again

[00:02:24] Oh those that were living

[00:02:26] Just tried to survive

[00:02:29] In that mad world of blood

[00:02:32] Death and fire

[00:02:35] And for ten weary weeks

[00:02:37] I kept myself alive

[00:02:40] While around me the corpses piled higher

[00:02:46] Then a big Turkish shell

[00:02:48] Knocked me arse over head

[00:02:51] And when I awoke in me hospital bed

[00:02:56] And saw what it had done I wished I was dead

[00:03:03] I never knew there was worse things than dying

[00:03:09] Oh no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda

[00:03:14] All around the green bush far and near

[00:03:20] For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs

[00:03:27] No more waltzing Matilda for me

[00:03:33] They collected the wounded

[00:03:35] The crippled the maimed

[00:03:38] And they shipped us back home to Australia

[00:03:44] The armless the legless

[00:03:46] The blind and the insane

[00:03:49] Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

[00:03:55] And when the ship pulled into Circular Quay

[00:04:00] I looked at the place where me legs used to be

[00:04:05] And thank Christ there was

[00:04:07] No one there waiting for me

[00:04:12] To grieve and to mourn and to pity

[00:04:18] And the Band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:24] When they carried us down the gangway

[00:04:29] Oh nobody cheered

[00:04:32] They just stood there and stared

[00:04:36] Then they turned all their faces away

[00:04:42] Now every April I sit on my porch

[00:04:47] And I watch the parade pass before me

[00:04:53] I see my old comrades how proudly they march

[00:04:58] Renewing their dreams of past glories

[00:05:04] I see the old men all tired stiff and worn

[00:05:09] Those weary old heroes of a forgotten war

[00:05:14] And the young people

[00:05:16] Ask "What are they marching for "

[00:05:21] And I ask myself the same question

[00:05:27] And the band plays Waltzing Matilda

[00:05:32] And the old men still answer the call

[00:05:38] But year after year their numbers get fewer

[00:05:44] Someday no one will march there at all

[00:05:51] Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda

[00:05:56] Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me

[00:06:01] And their ghosts may be heard as

[00:06:03] They march by the billabong

[00:06:06] So who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me