The Pogues - The band played waltzing matilda

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 pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli

How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again

Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then turned all their faces away

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?

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[BoredNutrition]

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[Ml White]

@AuldSuper. Just a bit of a retard? John Taylor is like a huge spider sitting in a dark, dank cave spinning his venom and vitriol at the rest of us (think Lord of the Rings).

So, John Taylor, I will say this one last time and then it's over. Got it?

I am a dual Candian and Irish Citizen. My family was Irish Protestant, so I've your shite for my whole 60 years. I have a BA in the history of the British Isles.

I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS WHAT YOU THINK.

Bother me again; I'll report u.

[bisento]

It is the foundational story, and inescapably in some respects foundational myth, of the twentieth century Australian identity. Very much in the Australian consciousness.

[Ieuan Evans]

Beautiful song, the lyrics are so powerful!

[BesCanKeanRob2]

Cromwell went into Ireland to fight the Irish royalists who conspired with Charles 1st in order for him to give catholism back to Ireland.He did anything he could to fight the 2nd civil war,the Irish had it coming to them there i`m afraid.The damage done beforehand to Ireland was from King Henry 8th. I agree,the English were the initial perpetrators of Ireland.BTW where`s this 800 year imposing will come from? Garbage.

[zsazsa1011]

Thank you ANZAC's, see your graves in Ieper ( Belgiuml). This battefield is to be seen.

[GratefulJWB]

Non necessarily anti-war, but it sure shows the senselessness of war. As an American, I had previously never heard of the Gallipoli campaign. I might wonder if Australian children learn of it in school today?

[john taylor]

Ireland has admitted for the first time that its 'morally bankrupt' regime of the 1930s denied visas to desperate Jews trying to escape from Nazi persecution.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter said that, following Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Ireland's anti-semitic Berlin ambassador Charles Bewley ensured 'the doors to this state were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee'.

[Oilisdeathtomany]

I will take your recommendation on board. Seems we're both on the same page. It's a funny world that competition is given higher ranking than co-operation. Surely working together as a species has to be better for every organism (we know of) than competing for the resources at hand. Maybe I'm too hippy at heart.

[jackHNv]

Listen to The Green Fields of France by Eric Bogle (who wrote this). I think this is the 2nd best anti-war song.