Matilda No More

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[Verse]
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Once Jolly swagmen went humpin their swags
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And stuffed jolly jumbucks in their tuckerbags
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These days jolly junkies go on bag snatchin jags
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And steal to buy the poison they 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 used to be
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We've changed all your words and 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 afternoon
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Rode down a reedy river to the broad bright lagoon
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The song of the river is a long vanished tune
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Since they built the uranium mine
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What's just left now is just toxic slime

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And wholl come a waltzing Matilda with me
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Oh Henry this countrys not what it used to be
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Days pass with a whimper and not 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 we reclaimed
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We ploughed and we planted then we ploughed once again
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And again and again and again and 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 sea
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On the day that it stretches from shore to far shore
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Well go waltzing Matilda no more


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Saturday night outside a Kings Cross hotel
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Kids with hard drugs and soft bodies to sell
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Australia these children are halfway to hell
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Oh is this the best deal you can 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 to keep free?
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A land fit for heroes or homeless 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 want it to be
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With care and compassion the dream well restore
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And well go waltzing Matilda once more, yeah
       E         F#m          B
Well go waltzing Matilda once more