Waltzing Matilda
Words: A.B.[Banjo]Patterson
Music: Scottish march 'Craigielee', Slim Dusty, Becky Deano
 

Midi 1(Eb78)   Midi 2(G116)   Midi 3(C100)*    Midi 4(D100)
Midi 5(C90)   Midi 6(D100)   Midi 7(Eb100)   Midi 8(F100)
Tabbed by Mark Purintun 6-05
For Diatonic harmonica
See YouTube videos below
Recipe for Jolly Jumbuck in a Tucker Bag  (not tried...)
Jumbuck Leather     Midi 9(C100)*-harp
(With assistance from Chris Brunner)


 

 

Lead in(to words of:)
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| "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda | with me".

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Once a jolly | swagman camped by a billa | bong under the shade of a |
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| coolabah tree. And he | sang as he watched and waited |
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| 'til his billy boiled, "you'll come a | waltzing Matilda with me". |

REFRAIN
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| Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, you'll | come a waltzing Matil |
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| da with me". And he sang as he | watched and waited 'til his billy |
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| boiled, "You'll come a Waltzing | Matilda with me". |

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| Down came a jumbuck to drink | at the billabong. Up jumped the |
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| swagman and grabbed him with glee. | And he sang as he stowed that |
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| jumbuck in his tucker bag, "You'll | come a waltzing Mathil |
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| da with me."  Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathil | da, you'll come a waltzing |
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| Mathilda with me." And he sang | as he stowed that Jumbuck |
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| in his tucker bag, "You'll come a | waltzing Mathilda with me".  |

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| Up rode the squatter, | mounted on his thorough bred, |
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| down came the troopers, one, | two, three. "Where's that jolly |
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| jumbuck you've got in your tuck | er  bag"?  "You'll come a waltzing |
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| Mathilda with me". Waltzing Mathilda, waltz | ing Mathilda, you'll come a |
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| waltzing Mathilda with me". |

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| "Where's that jolly jumbuck | you've got in your tucker bag"? You'll |
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| come a waltzing Mathil | da with me". Up jumped the |
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| swagman, and sprang into this bill | abong, "you'll never catch me |
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| alive", said he. And his | ghost may be heard as you pass |
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| by that billabong, "you'll come a | waltzing, Mathilda with me". |

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| Waltzing Mathilda, | waltzing Mathilda, you'll | come a waltzing Mathil |
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| da with me."  And he sang as he | watched and waited 'til his billy |
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| boiled, "you'll come a waltzing | Mathilda with me."   |

Explanation of Australian Slang As Used in the Song

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From June 30, 2006

     
Wendy Matthews, John Schumann, & Brian Cadd (Australia Day 2009                                                                     Slim Dusty


Becky Deano

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