Kan noen fortelle meg hva sangen handler om?

[JoeDohn]

Har hørt den bli spilt av Dubliners og Pogues, skal ikke se bort ifra at andre har spilt den også.

 

Uansett lurer jeg på om noen kan fortelle meg hva den handler om, det høres ut som om det er en historisk begivenhet - men jeg klarer ikke å finne ut hvilken det i tilfelle er snakk om.

 

Hovedpersonen er australier (er det nasjonalitetspronomenet for en fra Austraila?), og i 1915 drar han ut for å slåss. Lurer bl. a. på hvem "Turks" er, er det tyrkere? De var jo rimelig store på den tida? Men det er jo et stykke unna Australia.

 

Huff, jeg skjønner ingenting, kan noen klarne opp for meg?

 

Anbefaler forresten sangen med de to nevnte grupper, veldig veldig fin sang.

[DrDoogie]

Selve "Waltzing Matilda", den opprinnelige sangen, var kandidat nr. to til Australias nasjonalsang. "Advance Australia Fair" vant.

 

Anyway, sangen handler om en omstreifende fant som stjæler og eter en sau, så blir han forfulgt av lensmannen, og hopper uti ei elv og drukner.

 

"Matilda" er da sekkebylten han har på skuldra, som dobler som soveunderlag.

 

EDIT: Ga-dunk!

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong

Under the shade of a Coolibah tree

And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling

Who'll come a waltzing Matilda [1] with me

-

Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda [1] my darling

Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

Waltzing Matilda leading [?] a water bag [2]

Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

-

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water hole

Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him in glee

And he said as he put him away in the tucker bag

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

-

You'll come a Waltzing Matilda my darling

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

Waltzing Matilda leading [?] a water bag

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

-

Down came the squatter a riding on his thoroughbred

Down came policemen one two three

Where [3] is the jumbuck you've got in the tuckerbag

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

-

You'll come a Waltzing Matilda my darling

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

Waltzing Matilda leading [?] a tucker bag

You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

-

But the swagman he up and he jumped in the waterhole

Drowning himself by the Coolibah tree

And his ghost can be heard as it sings in the billabong

Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

Endret 21. januar 2004 av DrDoogie

[sofokles]

Teksten i låta er sjølforklarende : En loffer kan ei loffe uten bortsprengte ben.

 

Se filmen " Slaget om Gallipoli" som handler om det samme.

 

Handler kort sagt om meningsløs krig. Australere dro ut for å sloss for Imperiet. Slaget om Gallipoli i Tyrkia var særdeles blodig - derfor refereres det stadig til dette. Samtidig gjorde krigens opplevelser at Australerne endret syn på seg selv og sin egen nasjon - den førte til at de ikke lenger så seg som Briter i Australia - men som Australere, som en egen nasjon.

 

Se her Australia in World War One - BBC for mer info

 

Now when I was a young man I carried my pack

And lived the free life of the rover

From the Murray's Green Basin to the dusty outback

I waltzed my Matilda all over

Then in 1915 my country said "Son,

It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done."

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

And they mached me away to the war

 

 

And the band played Waltzing Matilda

As the ship pulled away from the quay

And amidst all the cheers, flag waving and tears

We sailed off for Gallipoli

 

 

And how well I remember that terrible day

How our blood stained the sand and the water

And of how in that hell that they called Souvla Bay

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

'Johnny Turk' he was ready, he'd primed himself well

He rained us with bullets and he showered us with shell

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell

Nearly blew us right back to Australia

 

 

 

And the band played Waltzing Matilda

While we stopped to bury our slain

We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs

Then it started all over again

 

And those that were left, well we tried to survive

In that mad world of death, blood and fire

And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive

Though around me the corpses piled higher

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse-over-head

And when I awoke in my hospital bed

And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead

Never knew there was worse things than dying

 

 

 

For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda

All around the green bush far and free

For to hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs

No more waltzing Matilda for me

 

So, they collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed

And shipped us back home to Australia

The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane

The proud, wounded heroes of Souvla

And when our ship pulled into Circular Quay

I looked at the place where my legs used to be

And thanked Christ there was no one there waiting for me

To grieve and to mourn and to pity

 

 

 

But the band played Waltzing Matilda

As they carried us down the gangway

But nobody cheered, they just stood there and stared

Then they turned all their faces away

 

So now every April I sit on my porch

And I watch the parade pass before me

I see my old comrades, how proudly they march

Reliving old dreams and past glories

And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore

They're tired old heroes of a forgotten war

And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"

And I ask myself the same question

 

 

 

But the band plays Waltzing Matilda

And the old men still answer the call

But as year follows year, more old men disappear

Some day no one will march there at all

 

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda

Who'll go a'waltzing Matilda with me?

And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong

Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me?

 

 

Edit jadda og mathilda uten H for fucksake

Endret 21. januar 2004 av sofokles

[JoeDohn]

Jess, hadde en anelse om dette, takk for opplysningene.

 

Og til deg, doogie; du bomma grovt. Vet for øvrig hva waltzing matilda handler om, Rolf Harris forklarer det så fint før han synger.