100 Years On

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He came in from Melbourne on a 
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Pioneer
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Adelaide morning, warm and clear
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And a past that wasn't quite 
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within the law

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And he opened yet another ten 
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dollar room
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To a broken blind and a rising gloom
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And a threadbare cotton carpet on
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 the floor

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And the muzak piping through the 
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corridor
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Played that song he heard before
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It went, who'll come a-waltzing 
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Matilda with me?

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A suitcase held with rope and twine
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Cleaner's shirt and an open mind
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A trail of debts to mark where he
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 had been

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A million miles of racetracks
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And torn tickets on the ground
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And his only son cut down in 
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Phnom Penh green

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A police car crawled down Gouger 
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street
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As he looked for some place cheap to
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 eat
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It was just another curbside 
   A
interview

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With a warrant out in Adelaide
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For a bad decision that he once made
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An instinct took his tongue and 
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pulled him through

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So he left his hotel room that night
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In time to make a midnight flight
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With an overloaded truckie going 
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east

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And the line ran round inside his 
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head
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Was it something that his best 
         A
friend said
F#m            G        A       
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda 
     D
with me?"

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A billabong's just a grubby pond 
         D            A
that's busy washing ore
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The squatter drives a 
     D
thoroughbred of steel
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And if he runs forever, will his 
               G
life be all in vain?
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At least that's how it makes him 
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feel

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And the truckie pushed a cassette in
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As they rumbled through the 
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Grampians
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It played Who'll come a-waltzing 
A            D
Matilda with me?

F#m
Waltzing Matilda
F#m
Waltzing Matilda
              G        A          
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda 
  D
with me?

F#m
Waltzing Matilda
F#m
Waltzing Matilda
              G        A          
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda 
  D
with me?

D                        A
And the truckie pushed a cassette in
        G
As they rumbled through the 
Grampians
   D                    G      
It played Who'll come a-waltzing 
               A
Matilda with me?