Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I've got what I paid for now
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See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you
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To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley
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And I'm tired of all these soldiers here
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No one speaks English, and everything's broken,
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and my Stacys are soaking wet
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To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking
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A lot they can do for me
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I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open,
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And I'm down on my knees tonight
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Old Bushmill's I staggered, you'd bury the dagger
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In your silhouette window light go
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To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her
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And the one-armed bandit knows
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And the maverick Chinamen, and the cold-blooded signs,
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And the girls down by the strip-tease shows, go
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Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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No, I don't want your sympathy, the fugitives say
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That the streets aren't for dreaming now
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And manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,
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They want a piece of the action anyhow
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Go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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And you can ask any sailor, and the keys from the jailor,
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And the old men in wheelchairs know
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And Mathilda's the defendant, she killed about a hundred,
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And she follows wherever you may go
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Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,
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You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me
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And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel
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Tom Traubert`s Blues
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| Tom Waits |
