{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":891528,"song":"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda","artist":"The Pogues","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/891528-and-the-band-played-waltzing-matilda-chords-by-the-pogues/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/891528?type=chord","rating":4.97961,"votes":345,"content":"***Waltzing Matilda - Axxchor\r\nfrom the album \"Rum Sodomy & The Lash\"\r\n\r\nAn alteration of a version by Eric Bogle. This version should match the \r\narpeggiated chords the banjo plays in the album version of \"The Band Played \r\nWaltzing Matilda\" by The Pogues. \r\n\r\nWaltzing Matilda - as perfomed by The Pogues\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen I was a young man, I carried my pack.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I lived the free life, of a rover.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\n>From the Murray's green basin,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo the dusty outback,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI waltzed my matilda all over.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen in 1915, my country said \"son\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]           \r\n\"It's time to stop rambling,\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"Cos there's work to be done.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo they gave me a tin hat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]        \r\nAnd they gave me a gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd they sent me away to the war.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the band played Waltzing Matilda,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs we sailed away from the quay.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd amidst all the tears,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the shouts and the cheers,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe sailed off for Galipoli[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHow well I remember that terrible day,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwhen the blood stained the sand and the water.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]            \r\nAnd how in that hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthat they called Souvla Bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJohnny Turk, he was ready, He'd primed himself well.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                \r\nHe showered us with bullets,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he rained us with shells.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd in five minutes flat,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nhe'd blown us all to hell.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNearly blew us right back to Australia.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the band played Waltzing Matilda,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs we stopped to bury our slain.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd we buried ours[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand the Turks buried theirs,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd it started all over again.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNow those who were living, Did their best to survive,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn that mad world of guts, blood, and fire.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]          \r\nAnd for seven long weeks,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI kept myself alive,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAs the corpses around me piled higher.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen a big Turkish shell, Knocked me arse over tit.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]      \r\nAnd when I awoke[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nin my hospital bed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd saw what it had done,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nChrist I wished I was dead.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNever knew there were worse things than dying.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd no more I'll go Waltzing Matilda,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo the green bushes so far and near.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor to hang tent and pegs[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA man needs two legs.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNo more Waltzing Matilda for me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                      [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo they collected the crippled, The wounded and maimed,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd they shipped us back home to Australia.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe legless, the armless,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthe blind and insane.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThose proud wounded heroes of Souvla[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd as our ship pulled into Circular Quay[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]             \r\nI looked at the place[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwhere my legs used to be.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd thank Christ, there was nobody[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nwaiting for me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo grieve and to mourn and to pity.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the band played Waltzing Matilda,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs they carried us down the gangway.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut nobody cheered,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey just stood and stared,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd they turned their faces away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd now every April, I sit on my porch,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I watch the parades pass before me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]          \r\nI see my old comrades,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHow proudly they march.[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nReliving the dreams of past glory.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI see the old men, all twisted and torn.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]         \r\nThe forgotten heroes[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nof a forgotten war.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the young people ask me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhat are they marching for?[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I ask my self the same question.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the band plays Waltzing Matilda,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the old men still answer the call.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut year after year,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTheir numbers get fewer,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSomeday no-one will march there at all.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWaltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWho'll come a waltzing matilda with me?[/tab]\r\n\r\nOutro:  [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]","plain_text":"***Waltzing Matilda - Axxchor\nfrom the album \"Rum Sodomy & The Lash\"\n\nAn alteration of a version by Eric Bogle. This version should match the \narpeggiated chords the banjo plays in the album version of \"The Band Played \nWaltzing Matilda\" by The Pogues. \n\nWaltzing Matilda - as perfomed by The Pogues\n\nIntro: A A A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutro:  A A E A","chords":["A","D","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}