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100 Years On
He came in from Melbourne on a Pioneer Adelaide morning, warm and clear And a past that wasn't quite Within the law
And he opened yet another ten dollar room To a broken blind and a rising gloom And a threadbare cotton carpet On the floor
And the musac piping through the corridor Played that song he heard before It went :-
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? A suitcase held with rope and twine Cleaner's shirt and an open mind A trail of debts
To mark where he had been A million miles of racetracks And torn tickets on the ground And his only son cut down in Phnom Penh green
Police car crawled down coogie street As he looked for some place cheap to eat It was just another Curb's eye interview
With a warrant out in Adeliade For a bad decision that he once made An instinct took his tongue And pulled him through
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com So he left his hotel room that night In time to make a midnight flight With an overloaded truckie Going east
And the line ran round inside his head Was it something that his best friend said 'Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?'
A billabong's just a grubby pond That's busy washing ore The squatter drives a thoroughbred steel And if he runs forever Will his life be all in vain? At least that's how it makes him feel
And the truckie pushed a casette in As they rumbled through the Grampians It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And the truckie pushed a casette in As they rumbled through the Grampians It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
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