{"id":19553,"date":"2024-01-31T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=19553"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:10:34","slug":"waltzing-matilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/waltzing-matilda\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltzing Matilda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Waltzing Matilda Chords\r\n<\/span>Banjo Paterson 1893\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>            G<\/span>        C<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Once a Jolly swagman, camped a by a billabong\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                    G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>under the shade of a coolabah tree\r\n<\/span><\/span>       C<\/span>            G<\/span>               C<\/span>               F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And he sang, and he watched, and he waited till his billy boiled\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>you'll come a waltzing Matilda with me\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>             F<\/span>          C<\/span>          G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me\r\n<\/span><\/span>       C<\/span>           G<\/span>              C<\/span>               F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And he sang and he watched and he waited till his billy boiled\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>you'll come a waltzing Matilda with me\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>            G<\/span>        C<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                          G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,\r\n<\/span><\/span>       C<\/span>            G<\/span>           C<\/span>               F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\".\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>              F<\/span>        C<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\"\r\n<\/span><\/span>       C<\/span>           G<\/span>           C<\/span>               F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\".\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>            G<\/span>        C<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Down came the troopers, one, two, three,\r\n<\/span><\/span>       C<\/span>            G<\/span>         C<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?\"\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\".\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>             F<\/span>          C<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\"\r\n<\/span><\/span>   C<\/span>           G<\/span>              C<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?\",\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\".\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>            G<\/span>        C<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                       G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll never catch me alive\", said he,\r\n<\/span><\/span>         C<\/span>           G<\/span>              C<\/span>               F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\".\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nC<\/span>                 F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>             F<\/span>          C<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me\"\r\n<\/span><\/span>         C<\/span>           G<\/span>              C<\/span>          F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>                        G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.\"\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nSet8\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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Waltzing Matilda Chords Banjo Paterson 1893 C G C F Once a Jolly swagman, camped a by a billabong C G under the shade of a coolabah tree C G C F And he sang, and he watched, and he waited till his billy boiled C G7 C you’ll come … CLICK TO VIEW SONGWaltzing Matilda<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,120,133,126,265,116,117,123,115,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30271,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions\/30271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}