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Title: The Pogues - The band played waltzing matilda
Added: Aug 30, 2008
Author: majorsnag
Duration: 8:11
Description:
Alec Campbell,the last known survivor of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli (and the last known survivor of Gallipoli) died on Thursday, May 16, 2002 at the age of 103. Mr. Campbell enlisted at 16, and served at Gallipoli in 1915. He led Hobart's ANZAC Day parade three weeks prior to his death. Lyrics:When I was a young man I carried my packAnd I lived the free life of a roverFrom the Murrays green basin to the dusty outbackI waltzed my Matilda all overThen in nineteen fifteen my country said SonIt's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be doneSo they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gunAnd they sent me away to the warAnd the band played Waltzing MatildaAs we sailed away from the quayAnd amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheersWe sailed off to Gallipoli How well I remember that terrible dayHow the blood stained the sand and the waterAnd how in that hell that they called Suvla BayWe were butchered like lambs at the slaughterJohnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself wellHe chased us with bullets, he rained us with shellsAnd in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hellNearly blew us right back to AustraliaBut the band played Waltzing MatildaAs we stopped to bury our slainWe buried ours and the Turks buried theirsThen we started all over again Now those that were left, well we tried to surviveIn a mad world of blood, death and fireAnd for ten weary weeks I kept myself aliveBut around me the corpses piled higherThen a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over titAnd when I woke up in my hospital bedAnd saw what it had done, I wished I was deadNever knew there were worse things than dyingFor no more I'll go waltzing MatildaAll around the green bush far and nearFor to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legsNo more waltzing Matilda for me So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimedAnd they shipped us back home to AustraliaThe armless, the legless, the blind, the insaneThose proud wounded heroes of SuvlaAnd as our ship pulled into Circular QuayI looked at the place where my legs used to beAnd thank Christ there was nobody waiting for meTo grieve and to mourn and to pityAnd the band played Waltzing MatildaAs they carried us down the gangwayBut nobody cheered, they just stood and staredThen turned all their faces away And now every April I sit on my porchAnd I watch the parade pass before meAnd I watch my old comrades, how proudly they marchReliving old dreams of past gloryAnd the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and soreThe forgotten heroes from a forgotten warAnd the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"And I ask myself the same questionAnd the band plays Waltzing MatildaAnd the old men answer to the callBut year after year their numbers get fewerSome day no one will march there at all Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing MatildaWho'll come a waltzing Matilda with meAnd their ghosts may be heard as you pass the BillabongWho'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
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Youtube Comments: 254
BogantownSlasher70 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - LEST WE FORGET....
qwertylikecrazy Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - my family lost an entire male generation in flanders field. then both grandfathers & all but one great-uncle to the heathen japs...all for what? ...a broken fecked-up Britain that ANZACS are no longer even welcome in, a britain full of foreigners....what a fecking waste
kjpg83 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - don't forget the Indians
whawh556 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - LEST WE FORGET.
haynesiest215 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - They went with songs to the battle, they were young.Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,They fell with their faces to the foe.They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning,We will remember them.
willeppille Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - Lest we forget
Kristov8100 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - Noone mentions the thousands of British and Irish troops killed..but then again Mel Gibson films ruined it. The Brits sat on the beach drinking tea? Dont make me laugh
sliva666 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - Lest We Forget
yutu34 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - Lest We Forget
kutzicotl Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - hear hear fuck war
Oilisdeathtomany Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Thank you so much for this. So many have died for rich man's wars. When we look at our planet from space, we do not see political borders. We do not see religion. We do not see men and women. We see a perfection that, if we weren't such selfish fools, could be appreciating this paradise.
ninteenseventyfree Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Well said.
6974danny Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - the british suck dicks ...bring on the australian republic
swerdna1970 Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Lest we forget.
tonypap1 Says:
May 4, 2012 - You really are a c*nt.God bless the Aussies. Those lads were so brave.The idea of a Republic is a decent one........... but you're just a pr1ck
6974danny Says:
May 4, 2012 - to tonypap ...you anglophile bitch ...its because of cunts like you that we arent a republic now ...so fuck you
sisyphian54 Says:
May 8, 2012 - The Irish? Most of the Irish were in the trenches in Europe fighting a war for an occupying power except for the few who were smart enough on Easter 1916 to show the British that they didn't care for their bloody racist empire. The Brits never gave to anyone, they only took and stole from them, especially their lives and freedoms.
sisyphian54 Says:
May 8, 2012 - Kissinger was a war criminal who sabotaged the peace talks while working for one president in order to gain favor for his next boss. Johnson was a glorified store clerk in the war and a combat veteran only because he was in a "combat zone." As a disabled combat vet who was shot at I resent people who sent men and boys to combat knowing what they were doing was wrong. Kissinger here was especially sick, he negotiated a settlement to Vietnam exactly the same as the one he sabotaged in 68.
sisyphian54 Says:
May 8, 2012 - Churchill, your typical Brit racist, just look at his actions toward Ireland and India. He refused to talk to Mountbatten after he "gave India away."
bristolcityifcation Says:
May 9, 2012 - fuck u prick you sure aint english !! CHURCHILL even though he was a tory was a great englishman ! only one who kept us figting against hitlers fucking nazis ! so think on before u run him down u fucking wanker ! god knows where we would have been without him ! so fuck off and thimk on cunt !
katie gabrielle head Says:
May 13, 2012 - you arse these were my countrymen that fought and and died for you friggin pommy bastardstmost australians from my generation had familly that fought and died in these senslless wars
thomas byrne Says:
May 18, 2012 - this is a song about a man any man from any country that did not start the war but had to suffer for the rest of his life
revol148 Says:
May 20, 2012 - oh well let's hope your ancestors managed to exterminate a few Turkish parasites before they died.
AidanDonnelly Says:
May 23, 2012 - Actually "We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again."It is a reference to a truce on the Anzacs front to bury those killed in a large Turkish assault several days before. Both sides soldiers mingled between the lines as the dead were buried as quickly as possible. A Turkish soldier, watching the scene remarked:"At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage must weep."
circle43cm Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - is this Credit as opposed to Debit ?