Tom Traubert`s Blues(waltzing Matilda) lyrics

Artist  : Rod Stewart 
Song : Tom Traubert`s Blues(waltzing Matilda)
 


(Tom Waits)

Wasted and wounded
And it
ain't what the moon did
I got what I paid for
now
See you tomorrow
Hey Frank can I
borrow
A couple of bucks from you
To go
waltzing Matilda waltzing Matilda
You'll go
waltzing Matilda with me

I'm an innocent
victim
of a blinded alley
And I'm tired of
all these soldiers here
No-one speaks
English
And everything's broken
And my
strength is soaking away
To go waltzing
Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing
Malitda with me

Now the dogs they are
barking
and the taxi cab's parking
A lot
they can do for me
I begged you to stab
me
You tore my shirt open
And I'm down on
my knees tonight

Old bushmills I
staggered
You buried the dagger
Your
silhouette window light
To go waltzing
Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing
Matilda with me

Now I've lost my St.
Christopher
Now that I kissed her
And the
one-arm bandit knows
And the maverick
Chinaman
with the cold-blooded sigh
And the
girls down by the striptease shows go
Waltzing
Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing
Matilda with me

No I don't want your
sympathy
Fugitives say
that the streets
aren't for dreaming now
Manslaughter
dragnet
and the ghost that sells
memories
Want a piece of the action
anyhow
Go waltzing Matilda, waltzing
Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with
me

And you can ask any sailor
And the
keys from the jailor
And the old men in
wheelchairs know
That Matilda's the
defendant
She killed about a hundred
And
she follows wherever you may go
Waltzing
Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go waltzing
Matilda with me

And it's a battered old
suitcase
in a hotel someplace
And a wound
that would never heal
No prima donnas the
perfume is on
and old shirt that is stained
with blood and whiskey
And goodnight to the
street-sweepers,
The night watchmen
flame-keepers
And goodnight Matilda
too
Goodnight Matilda too.