And The Band Played "waltzing Matilda" Uke tab by Eric Bogle

G       C           G          Em
When I was a young man I carried my pack
      G              D         G
And I lived the free life of a rover
         G       C                  G       Em
From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback
  G              D         G
I waltzed my matilda all over
        D                   C            G
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son
     D                                   C           G
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be Done
        G          C               G          Em
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
      G              D         G
And they sent me away to the war

[Chorus]
        G           C         G 
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
                   C            D    Dsus4 D
As the ship pulled away from the quay
    C              Am                 G          Em
And amidst all the tears and the flag-waving and cheers
  G              D      G  Gsus4 G
We sailed off to Gallipoli

    G       C           G          Em
How well I remember that terrible day
         G                 D         G
When our blood stained the sand and the water
     G          C                G          Em
And how in that hell that they called suvla bay
          G            D            G
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
       D                     C              G
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
   D                           C               G
He rained us with bullets, he showered us with shells
       G            C               G          Em
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
       G             D       G
Nearly blew us right back to Australia

[Chorus]
        G           C         G 
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
                 C         D    Dsus4 D
As we stopped to bury our slain
C          Am           G           Em
we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
        G           D       G  Gsus4 G
Then we started all over again
  
    G              C              G          Em
Now those who were left, well, we tried to survive
        G             D               G
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
       G           C          G       Em
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
      G              D         G
While the corpses around me piled higher
       D                            C          G
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head
     D                   C        G
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
      G           C             G             Em
I saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was dead
       G              D                 G
Never knew there were worse things than dying

[Chorus]
        G           C       G 
So I'll go no more waltzing Matilda
                    C               D    Dsus4 D
All around the green bush near and far
       C             Am      G            Em
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
        G         D         G  Gsus4 G
No more waltzing Matilda for me.

         G           C             G            Em
So they Gathered the wounded, the crippled, the maimed
          G              D         G
And they shipped us back home to Australia
     G            C           G          Em
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
       G            D         G
Those proud wounded heroes of suvla,
     D                        C        G
And when the ship pulled into circular quay
    D           C                           G
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
          G               C       G           Em
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
   G             C            G 
To grieve and to mourn and to pity

[Chorus]
        G           C         G        
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
                    C           D    Dsus4 D
As they carried us down the gangway
 C          Am                 G           Em 
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
        G                 D      G  Gsus4 G
And they turned all their faces away


    G         C        G          Em
And now every April I sit on my porch
     G          D             G
And I watch the parade pass before me
    G         C            G            Em
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
   G                    D            G
Reliving the or their dreams of past glory
     D                         C              G
The old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore
    D                      C        G
The tired old heroes of a forgotten war
        G             C              G            Em
And the young people ask, "what are they Marching for?"
    G      D               G
And I ask myself the same question

[Chorus]
G                  C         G
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
                      C              D  Dsus4 D      
And the old men still answer to the call
    C          Am            G         Em
But year after year more old men disappear
         G           D               G  Gsus4 G
Some day no one will march there at all

G                 C 
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
G                                 D
Who'll go a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
          G             D            Em            C 
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the Billabong
C             G        D7           G
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Songwriters: Eric Bogle