Tom Trauberts Blues Waltzing Matilda

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[Verse 1]
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Wasted and wounded, it ain’t what the moon did,
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I’ve got what I paid for now.
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See you tomorrow, hey, Frank, can I borrow
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a couple of bucks from you to go


[Chorus]
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Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
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you’ll go waltzing, Matilda, with me.


[Verse 2]
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I’m an innocent victim of a blinded alley,
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and I’m tired of all these soldiers here.
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No one speaks English and everything’s broken,
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and my strength is soaking away to go

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[Chorus]
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Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
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you’ll go waltzing, Matilda, with me.


[Verse 3]
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Now I’ve lost my St. Christopher, now that I’ve kissed her
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and the one-armed bandit knows.
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And the maverick Chinaman with the cold blooded sigh,
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and the girls down by the striptease shows go

[Chorus]
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Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
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you’ll go waltzing, Matilda, with me.


[Verse 4]
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No, I don’t want your sympathy, the fugitives say,
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that the streets aren’t for dreaming now.
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Manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,
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what a piece of the action, anyhow go

[Chorus]
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Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
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you’ll go waltzing, Matilda, with me.

[Verse 5]
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And it’s a battered old suitcase in a hotel someplace,
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and a wound that will never heal,
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no primadonnas, the perfume is on
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and an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey.
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And it’s good-night for the street-sweepers,
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the nightwatchmen, flame-keepers,
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and goodnight, Matilda, too.
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Goodnight Matilda, too.