《The Band Played Waltzing Matilda》歌词

[00:04:52] The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues

[00:04:52] When I was a young man I carried my pack

[00:04:52] And I lived the free life of a rover

[00:04:52] From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback

[00:04:52] I waltzed my Matilda all over

[00:04:52] Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son

[00:04:52] It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be

[00:04:52] done

[00:04:52] So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

[00:04:52] And they sent me away to the war

[00:04:52] And the band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] As we sailed away from the quay

[00:04:52] And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the

[00:04:52] cheers

[00:04:52] We sailed off to Gallipoli

[00:04:52] How well I remember that terrible day

[00:04:52] When the blood stained the sand and the water

[00:04:52] And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay

[00:04:52] We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

[00:04:52] Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well

[00:04:52] He showered us with bullets, he rained us with

[00:04:52] shells

[00:04:52] And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell

[00:04:52] Nearly blew us right back to Australia

[00:04:52] But the band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] As we stopped to bury our slain

[00:04:52] And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs

[00:04:52] Then it started all over again

[00:04:52] Now those who were living did their best to survive

[00:04:52] In that mad world of blood, death and fire

[00:04:52] And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive

[00:04:52] While the corpses around me piled higher

[00:04:52] Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit

[00:04:52] And when I woke up in my hospital bed

[00:04:52] And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was

[00:04:52] dead

[00:04:52] Never knew there were worse things than dying

[00:04:52] And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] To the green bushes so far and near

[00:04:52] For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs

[00:04:52] No more waltzing Matilda for me

[00:04:52] So they collected the cripples, the wounded and

[00:04:52] maimed

[00:04:52] And they shipped us back home to Australia

[00:04:52] The legless, the armless, the blind and insane

[00:04:52] Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

[00:04:52] And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay

[00:04:52] I looked at the place where me legs used to be

[00:04:52] And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me

[00:04:52] To grieve and to mourn and to pity

[00:04:52] And the band played Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] As they carried us down the gangway

[00:04:52] But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared

[00:04:52] And they turned all their faces away

[00:04:52] And now every April I sit on my porch

[00:04:52] And I watch the parade pass before me

[00:04:52] I see my old comrades, how proudly they march

[00:04:52] Reliving the or their dreams of past glory

[00:04:52] I see the old men, all twisted and torn

[00:04:52] The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war

[00:04:52] And the young people ask me, What are they

[00:04:52] marching for?

[00:04:52] And I ask myself the same question

[00:04:52] And the band plays Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] And the old men still answer to the call

[00:04:52] But year after year their numbers get fewer

[00:04:52] Some day no one will march there at all

[00:04:52] Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda

[00:04:52] Who'll go a-waltzing Matilda with me?