|
|
 |
|
|
| Waltzing Matilda |
 |
Rendition of Waltzing Matilda, once sung once
brass instrumental.
Honors for This Video-18th September 2006(YT
TIME)
#2 - Most Discussed (Today) - Travel & Places
#5 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Travel &
Places
#48 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Travel &
Places
#6 - Top Rated (Today) - Travel & Places
#31 - Top Rated (This Week) - Travel & Places
#49 - Most Viewed (Today) - Travel & Places
#4 - Top Favorites (Today) - Travel & Places
#12 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Travel &
Places
For More Australian Videos PLease check out
the Australia, Now and Always Group here on
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/group/Australia1
Tags : Gigolo8 Chook bird waltzing matilda Australia once jolly swagman billabong squatter jumbuck trooper coolabah tree |
|
Affichage : 251413
Durée : 259 s |
| And the band played Waltzing Mathilda |
 |
http://www.atheturk.com
In memoriam of thoses, anzacs, turks, frenchs
who lost their lives in Gallipoli. The song
"Waltzing Mathilda" is performed by the
Pogues.
When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty
outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's
work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a
gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and
the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla
Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself
well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with
shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to
hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again
Now those that were left, well we tried to
survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over
tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two
legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me
So they collected the cripples, the wounded,
the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the
insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to
be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for
me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and
stared
Then turned all their faces away
And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they
march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff
and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they
marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the
Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Tags : Atatürk The pogues waltzing mathilda gallipoli çannakale gelibolu dardanelles turquie turkey anzac day Türkiye |
|
Affichage : 253637
Durée : 489 s |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
