Tom Waits. Waltzing Matilda [aka: Tom Traubert's Blues] Live at Rockpalast 1977.

[lennydylan]

fucking legend,,,say no more...x

[Herve1955]

Tom Waits donne à ce chant du folklore australien une profondeur, une émotion et une intensité qu'il ne contient pas à l'origine. Rien n'est plus superbe !!!

[TheWASSERLASSER]

Klingt als würde ihm das Erbrochene in der Kehle blubbern.



[philagerryberry714]

Saw Tom in Phila 1976 , At U of Penn.. Best Tom I've ever seen. Tom Thank's for being you!

[westport999]

Wish I'd been there!

[na5om]

I don't understand why too many people find here a reason to mind or to be nervous . Tom is singing song, as you see, and he isn't doing anything else. Why can't we simple be listening to him?

[MrSpitfire61]

Actually ive heard the origional was written in the 1630s'......apparently often sung during the English civil war.

With deportation the song reached Australia.

[naills100]

poet

[matseman46]

Love u Tom u are a poet and u the best ever...Saw u live where u did "Raindogs" in Malmö sweden. The song i love the most is Rubys arms (not from raindogs)

[Tamilicious1990]

Happy birthday, Tom !!! : )

[youknowsheshalfcrazy]

Everybody just has to listen to the different versions of the songs to hear they are two completely different songs with only the same refrain. If you look at the record`s cover you can read who wrote this song: Mr Waits himself. And the australian nearly anthem - version tells a different story. You can listen to it on youtube, too. That should be enough to get it.

[youknowsheshalfcrazy]

Am I the only one who thinks that he was a damn handsome guy in the late 70s? I never heard anyone else saying it, so i wonder if it`s just me...

[pnkgtr]

It's hard to believe that he's only 28 in this video.

[gordygrierson]

he is simply magic!! and it never fails to bring a tear to my eye when ever i listen to his unique voice

[polmaccaba01]

to the 2 top comments......he did not write it.....and the Pogues version of waltzing matilda is a lot better....having said that i love Tom's version.

[Muppet1950]

@polmaccaba01 @polmaccaba01 Please get your facts correct....Might be Waits' most famous song. Covered by artists like: Rod Steward, The Pogues, The Dubliners, Rolf Harris, John McDermott and Dave Gannet.

Tom Traubert's Blues is evidently based on the Australian hymn Waltzing Matilda (written by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson). So it's tempting to assume both songs deal with the same subject-matter. But this is not the case. The only thing similar in both songs is the chorus.

[Bartjebart2]

@Muppet1950 Waltzing Mathilda was actually written around 1895,.. If you don't believe it: Google is your friend. So maybe you should get your own facts straight first ;-)

[Muppet1950]

@Bartjebart2 You 'my friend' need to google 'Tom Traubert's Blues' and read Wikipedia.......We all know when the original was written [A.B. "Banjo" Paterson] but Tom Traubert's Blues is a completely different song that Tom Waits wrote and it only shares a similar chorus..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­­!!!!!!!

[MrSzczepanek1994]

@Muppet1950 who care...Its an amazing song :D

[bf1255]

@Muppet1950 Wikipedia is NOT a resource that can be trusted. It is not to be taken as fact as there is no real fact checking.

[pking4hjg]

@Bartjebart2 Muppet1950 is correct. This song is NOT Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Patterson. It is Tom Traubert's Blues by Tom Waits, from his 1976 album release, Small Change, an historic perfect album with every cut a gem. The term "waltzing Matilda" in both songs, is the Australian colloquial expression meaning having no home and travelling on foot with a knapsack. The knapsack is 'Matilda.' Nobody does this song better than Waits.

[klpklp1971]

@Bartjebart2

Dumbshit.

[klpklp1971]

Dumbsh... 

[kevinxmc]

@Muppet1950

There's this which is Tom's Version.

Then There's the old banjo paterson version which i believe is the original as stated by someone else.

The one performed by the pogues, dubliners, john mcdermott and others is "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by eric bogle. a great song about the horrors of WWI. Parts of the original banjo paterson version are used in both this and Tom's versions.

[75arkle]

@polmaccaba01 'the Pogues version'? I assume you mean their cover of Eric Bogle's 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' which bears no relation to this song other than the use of the chorus of Banjo Patterson's folk song. They are three different songs.

[turneric70]

@polmaccaba01 the name of the song is Tom Trauberts blues he did write it and he only uses 2 lines of waltzing matilda which is a totally different song. You all need to get your facts straight it was released in the 1970s.

[hoghash78]

The lyrics, the story...touches

aww fuck no more from me

[jpsspark]

why do my eyes leak when i hear this ????thanks tom blinding

[euroman32589]

he needs to cough...not a clue what he's singing

[shadowsdarkrealm]

(@)

[sternenstaub1012]

wow i love it

[GamlaGossen]

Who is Tom Traubert ?

I love the song but I don't understand it.

[easkoda]

reminds me so much of SACHMO.

[LadyTrinity53]

Either you get it or you don't. He takes my breath away. He is the real deal.

[autostopowicz70]

This is real music..

[VientDeMee]

REVELATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lovethemick]

MMMMMM

[cassleung2007]

His voice is tailor made for this song. Hearing this, you can really hear the the heart and the emotions of a broken down hopeless man who's watching the world around him go by. I love it!

[jayweh]

I love that song and rod stewart´s version so I thought I´d check out tom waits. I have to say I don´t get his voice, I really want him to clear his throat. it´s feels like a parody. sry

[silverstartrucker]

What a unique voice. Love you Tom...

[ventreacle]

I signed up youtube to write this:

I saw him in Sydney in 1979 (or was it 80?). Best concert I've ever seen. Tom Traubert's Blue (this) was his encore, of course. He graveled... "Um..., er... I've um... y'know... I've kinda stolen your unofficial national anthem on this next one."

*Wild applause*

*A pause...*

"I'll give it back when I'm done..."

Thank you Tom.

[timothymorganevans]

almost painfully beautiful.

[beekaye1]

chapeau!!!!!!!!!

[smithk9equine]

Real music, genuine story, honest presentation...beats the hell out of the 'Pop-music oh baby, baby, Bieber (sorry Justin)sh*t out today. THIS is a s good as it gets!

[UkkoA]

@RoseJnr, Right-o, scrw the monarchs! :D BTW, our local supermarket had got a consignment of pretty fresh VB, I'm into third bottle and thinking highly of Australia right now. Well travelling stuff and at home even on other side of the world, just like Australians themselves!

[flight1100]

Damn! I um er speechless 

[dromede]

This is great. Tom you're the best

[muzglimy]

the picture in the back looks like it was taken that same day,lol.

[MrFTLWilson]

IMHO: The Defining Moment in American Artistic History.

Redefining the word Genius. I doubt anything will surpass this i my lifetime.

Thanks for posting this. Tom - please make it an official authorized release.

[TheBlueGuitar2]

Wow.. This is just so good. It hits everything just right. A true Classic act, one of the most genuine singer songwriters of our time.

[gaguy1967]

worst singer every

[MacJARedd]

@gaguy1967 you serious?

[muzglimy]

@gaguy1967 uhhh

[Lordofdorkness4ever]

Tom Waits...Worst...Voice...ever.

[UkkoA]

SuperCookguy, this is not the same 'Waltzing Mathilda' which is the unofficial national anthem of Australia. Ok, maybe the title and chorus, but the rest is something else. If you're an Australian, learn your anthem, which is 'God Save the Queen', ffs. P.S. 'And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda' by the Pogues isn't Ozzie national anthem either, even though it should be!

[koeppi56]

Hey hier hört man einen Künstler der sei Handwerk wirklich beherscht, Gruß Mitti

[mountainat85]

Great song, he is one of a kind!

[RythmOfMyHeart]

Rod's version is more accessable to the public, but let's be honest, this one is exceptionally awesome

[Reen4943]

Yeah, Tom Waits does this song justice...

[Deathsiren]

@Reen4943 You know that Tom wrote it, right?

[virnalisi]

no one gets emotion out of me more quickly as this man

[sodarepsed]

Just perfect!!

[watersong111]

Want to know what's wrong with all organized religions? There is no room in them for beauty like this......

Sing it for me, Tom.......

[ACE7639]

Beautiful song!

[WebsterAnn]

@ACE7639 sorry! I'm the one who disliked! It was an accident!

[caspar2403]

zum Niederknien

[khororu]

Good stuff !!!!

[ScarryInnocence]

this is one of the best songs i´ve ever hesrd.and tom waits is one of the best singers in the world.so what can i say........???nothing listen to the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rickmatousek]

you know, I have always loved to hear great singers or great players on their repective instruments. The performances move me. Waits is not a great virtuoso pianist and his voice isn't even like anything human, but I defy anyone to try to do this song better. It's like he has bared his soul, or the soul of anyone who is feeling depressed, sad, lonely...a true blues number, and very moving and heartfelt for sure. Makes me tear up everytime i hear it. Thanks for posting.

[lovinair]

@rickmatousek : you're right, thks for your comment

[silverstartrucker]

@rickmatousek - I agree 100%

[nanovianna]

now I know where Bed of Roses comes from

[Deathsiren]

@nanovianna ????????

[esme7272]

Mr. tom waits!!! young, drunken and PERFECT! thank you ;-)

[Abrown465]

We are all so fortunate to be sharing the same moment in time as such fabulous poet/songwriters as Waits, Dylan, Cohen, Prine, Morrison and so many others.

[designermite]

Remember the moments...great song..great artist...

[ralf20168]

ein super geiler Künstler

[SuperstarNeilC]

One of ~the~ best and most moving songs ever

[ubeautmate75]

ya think life is tough eh..............get real

[Lancealotbob]

I have a Queensland Heeler (my best friend) named after this song.

[dohertykaki]

Great!!

[SELECTER73]

WOW...

[CatScratchFEVAA]

he brings me to tears every time.. i love him..

[ispinimor]

@CatScratchFEVAA same here.

[RFO1983]

OBEY THE GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[baggiboxer]

absolut Spitze, gefühlvoll, einfach aus dem Leben!

[Muppet1950]

What a sad little comment..............

[lovinair]

@Muppet1950 : you're right, how can we juge someone, whatever is his apearance or status. Only people who don't have in their character or not heritated a piece of humanity or/and few possibility to ever continue to open his mind can think he had some reason to judge or give a not completely opened advice.

[electricsheep0191]

You are a clown if you don't get where he is coming from. This isnt pretty music but it has real feeling and its about having desperate emotions not some light weight pop shit.

[trumpzero2]

fuck COMPLETELY off. Moron.

[gefan3]

How did the voices of all the brokenhearted drunks in the world fit inside one man?

I think he's still in his twenties here.

How the fuck do you write this song in your twenties?

[trumpzero2]

that's a damn good question. And yes, he'd be about 28.

[LandoftheShanks]

@gefan3 A lot of young people go through a lot of crap man. You'd be surprised how much certain events in life can age you inside.

[clustergarde]

@gefan3

Son, "Waltzing matilda" was nurtured 100 years before Tom Waits was born. Not the voice of a brokenheated man but a man-heart, rough-but-full-of-feeling. Best from Spain.

[LandoftheShanks]

@gefan3 some young people have experiences that older people havent and will never have. just because it doesnt show on the outside, doesnt mean it isnt there internally. old soul.

[LandoftheShanks]

@LandoftheShanks and excuse that comment because it was left previously and someone i know likes to repeat what i say and then post under my name you bastard.

[facefacts911]

@gefan3 You don't, it's a cover of an old folk song, dumb ass.

[mudron]

@facefacts911 Waits quotes "Waltzing Matilda" in the refrain for this song, but the rest of it was actually written by him, dumb ass.

[facefacts911]

@mudron I know that, I just like pissing off Tom Waits fans because it is SO EASY. Like this... HIS VOICE IS TERRIBLE (here comes the flood of insults my way).

[dalt013]

@facefacts911 Flood??? How about the APOCALYPSE!!!

[RobotNinjaShark09]

@facefacts911 You need a new hobby.

[SuperCookguy]

@gefan3 its australias national anthem and or theme song, just his rendition

[SuperCookguy]

@gefan3 fff

[Gintodalbert]

@gefan3 : Right , he was 28! How can you write with such wit at 28 remains a mystery...

[candyxapples1]

@gefan3 not impossible. Joy division wrote all of their songs by the time Ian Curtis was about 20. Being a Musician, and looking back to these particular musical acts, i am completely blown away. If i had that that kind of ability at that age, let alone that kind of focus and determination, I probably wouldn't be some nerd on the internet TALKING about it :0/

[Studeman51]

@gefan3 You're right he was 28 in 1977 and I too wonder where genius like this come from.

[dwtubman]

Great soundhis best version of this number

[clustergarde]

I like this version. There is feeling in this. It appears it comes out of the heart.

All the best from Spain.

[GrigoriSom]

Bless him.

[19caribou61]

Yes amazing..

[lozorzz]

that was amazing, not much else to say