View Guitar Chords for And the band played waltzing matilda - chords ver. 1
Written By Eric Bogle Recorded by many, Liam Clancy's version in my opinion best captures the emotion of the song tuning pending on your voice, i play this half step down, standard works fine too 3/4 time at 105 bpm last section is 4/4 time chords and picking patterns (last a chord to chorus 5 is a single A note (open 5th string) x02220 A 543234 xx0232 D 432123 244222 F#m 543123 020100 E7 543234 022100 E 643234 xx4432 Bm 432123 xx0230 Dsus2 not picked Intro A A each verse & chorus A D A F#m A E7 A A A D A F#m A E7 A A E E D A E E D A A D A F#m A E7 A A A D A A A D E7 E7 D Bm A D A E7 A A ive deliberately broken it into 3 sections to make the patterns stand out and make it easy to remember, its almost like a sonnet in its symmetry IntroA A Now when Verse 1 AI was a Dyoung man I Acarried me F#mpack And I Alived the free E7life of a Arover A From the AMurray's green Dbasin to the Adusty Out-F#mback I Awaltzed my MaE7tilda all Aover AThen in Enineteen fif-Eteen me Dcountry said, ASon It's Etime to stop Erambling there's Dwork to Abe done So they Agave me a Dtin hat, and they Agave me a F#mgun And they Asent me E7away to the Awar AChorus 1And the Aband played DWaltzing Ma-Atilda A When the Aship pulled E7away from the Aquay A And a-Dmid all the Bmtears, flag-Awaving and Dcheers We Asailed off for E7Ga-llip-o-Ali Averse 2And Ahow I re-Dmember that Aterrible F#mday When our Ablood stained the E7sand and the Awater A And Ahow in that Dhell that they Acall Suvla F#mBay We were Abutchered like E7lambs at the Aslaughter AJohnny ETurk he was Eready, he'd Dprimed himself Awell He Erained us with Ebullets, and he Dshowered us with Ashells And in Afive minutes Dflat we were Aall blown to F#mhell Nearly Ablew us back E7home to Au-Astralia AChorus 2And the Aband played DWaltzing Ma-Atilda A When we Astopped to E7bury our AslainA DWe buried Bmours, and the ATurks buried Dtheirs Then we Astarted all E7over a-AgainAVerse 3And Athose that were Dleft, just Atried to sur-F#mvive In that Amad world of E7blood, death and Afire A And for Aten weary Dweeks I kept Amyself a-F#mlive While a-Around me the E7corpses piled Ahigher AThen a Ebig Turkish Eshell knocked me Darse over Ahead And Ewhen I a-Ewoke in me Dhospital Abed And Asaw what it had Ddone, well, I Awished I was F#mdead Never Aknew there was E7worse things than Adying AChorus 3So no Amore I'll go DWaltzing Ma-Atilda A All a-Around the green E7bush far and Anear A For to Dhump tent and Bmpegs a Aman needs both Dlegs No more AWaltzing Ma-E7tilda for Ame AVerse 4So they Agathered the Dwounded, the Acrippled, the F#mmaimed And they Ashipped us back E7home to Au-Astralia A The Aarmless, the Dlegless, the Ablind, the in-F#msane Those Aproud wounded E7heroes of ASuvla AAnd Ewhen the ship Epulled into DCircular AQuay I Elooked at the Eplace where me Dlegs used to Abe And thanked AChrist there was Dno one there Awaiting for F#mme To Agrieve and to E7mourn and to Apity AChorus 4And the Aband played DWaltzing Ma-Atilda A When they Acarried us E7down the Agangway A But Dnobody Bmcheered, they just Astood there and Dstared Then they Aturned all their E7faces a-Away AVerse 5So Anow every DApril I Asit on my F#mporch And I Awatch the par-E7ade pass be-Afore me A I Asee my old Dcomrades how Aproudly they F#mmarch Re-Anewing old E7dreams of past Aglory AI Esee the old Emen, all Dtired, stiff and Asore The Eweary old Eheroes from a Dforgotten Awar And the Ayoung people Dask, "WhatA are they marcF#mhing for?" And AI ask my-E7self the same AquestionAChorus 5And the Aband plays DWaltzing Ma-Atilda A And the Aold men still E7answer the Acall A But Dyear after Bmyear their Anumbers get Dfewer Someday Ano one will E7march there at Aall AVerse 6 is strumming - 4/4 timingAWaltzing Matilda, DWaltzing Matilda AWho'll come a-DWaltzing Ma-Atilda with E7me? E7And their Aghosts may be E7heard as F#mthey march by the DBillabong AWho'll come a-Dsus2Waltzing Ma-E7tilda with Ame?i have no idea how to notate the strumming pattern for the last verse i suspect there is an offbeat at the start of line 3 (1 bar of 1 beat) for the words "and their" A 4 beats D 4 beats A 2 beats D 2 beats A 2 beats E7 2 beats E7 1 beat A 2 beats E7 2 beats F#m 2 beats D 2 beats A 2 beats D5 2 beats E7 2 beats A 6 beats