Matilda No More

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[Verse]
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Once Jolly swagmen went humpin 
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their swags
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And stuffed jolly jumbucks in their
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 tuckerbags
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These days jolly junkies go on 
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bag snatchin jags
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And steal to buy the poison they 
C#m
need
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The old swaggie just wanted a feed


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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda 
with me
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Oh Banjo this countrys not what it 
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used to be
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We've changed all your words and 
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rewritten your score
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Now it's waltzing Matilda no more
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Once Henry and Mary on a warm 
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afternoon
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Rode down a reedy river to the 
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broad bright lagoon
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The song of the river is a long 
         E
vanished tune
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Since they built the uranium mine
Continúa después del anuncio
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What's just left now is just toxic 
B
slime

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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda 
with me
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Oh Henry this countrys not what it 
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used to be
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Days pass with a whimper and not 
           G#m
with the roar
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And it's waltzing Matilda no more
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We cut down the trees and the land 
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we reclaimed
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We ploughed and we planted then we 
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ploughed once again
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And again and again and again and 
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again
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So now on a hot windy day
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We can watch our topsoil blown away


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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda 
with me
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The desert is marching down to the 
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sea
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On the day that it stretches from 
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shore to far shore
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Well go waltzing Matilda no more


Saturday night outside a Kings Cross
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 hotel
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Kids with hard drugs and soft 
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bodies to sell
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Australia these children are 
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halfway to hell
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Oh is this the best deal you can 
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give?
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Well I find that hard to believe


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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda 
with me
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Hey ANZAC is this what you fought 
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to keep free?
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A land fit for heroes or homeless
     G#m
 and poor
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And it's waltzing Matilda no more

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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda 
with me
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This country could still be what we
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 want it to be
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With care and compassion the dream
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 well restore
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And well go waltzing Matilda once 
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more, yeah
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Well go waltzing Matilda once more