100 Years On

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He came in from Melbourne on a Pioneer
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Adelaide morning, warm and clear
D                      A                G
And a past that wasn't quite within the law

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And he opened yet another ten dollar room
G                              A
To a broken blind and a rising gloom
D                       A             G
And a threadbare cotton carpet on the floor

D                                A
And the muzak piping through the corridor
G                         A
Played that song he heard before
D                      G                     A
It went, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

D                             A
A suitcase held with rope and twine
G                           A
Cleaner's shirt and an open mind
D                   G                 A
A trail of debts to mark where he had been

D                      A
A million miles of racetracks
G                       A
And torn tickets on the ground
D                    G                  A
And his only son cut down in Phnom Penh green

D                                A
A police car crawled down Gouger street
G                                 A
As he looked for some place cheap to eat
D                   G        A
It was just another curbside interview

D                     A
With a warrant out in Adelaide
G                               A
For a bad decision that he once made
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An instinct took his tongue and pulled him through

D                              A
So he left his hotel room that night
G                          A
In time to make a midnight flight
D                  G             A
With an overloaded truckie going east

D                                 A
And the line ran round inside his head
G                                     A
Was it something that his best friend said
F#m            G        A            D
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Bm                                      D            A
A billabong's just a grubby pond that's busy washing ore
G                     A               D
The squatter drives a thoroughbred of steel
D                       A                       G
And if he runs forever, will his life be all in vain?
D               A                G
At least that's how it makes him feel

D                                 A
And the truckie pushed a cassette in
G                           A
As they rumbled through the Grampians
D         A             G        A            D
It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

F#m
Waltzing Matilda
F#m
Waltzing Matilda
              G        A            D
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

F#m
Waltzing Matilda
F#m
Waltzing Matilda
              G        A            D
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

D                        A
And the truckie pushed a cassette in
        G
As they rumbled through the Grampians
   D                    G                     A
It played Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?