The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (chrom)

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA chrom
Eric Bogle
Key: D
Time: 6/8

-2*  3  -3 -3 -3  -5   -5 -4 -3   -3 -4 -2*
Now when I was a young man I car-ried a pack
-2* 3  -3   -2*  -2*  3  -2* 2  2  -1
And I lived the free life of a rov-er
 -2*  3  -3   -3    -3   -5 -5
From the Mur-ray’s green ba-sin
5* -4   -3 -3 -4   -2*
To the dust-y out-back,
 -2* 3   -3   -2* -2* 3 -2*  2  2 -1
Well I waltzed my Ma-til-da all o-ver
 -5  -5  5*   5*  -4  -3-4
Then in nine-teen fif-teen 
 5*  -5  -5   6   -5
The coun-try said son
 -5   5*  -4    -3    -3  -4
It’s time you stopped rov-ing
   5*    -5  -5 -4  -3
There’s work to be done
-2* 3    -3  -3 -3 -5 -5
So they gave me a tin hat 
 5*  -4   -3  -3-4 -2*
And they gave me a gun
-2*3 -3  -3-2* 3 -2*  2  -1
And sent me a-way to the war
-2*  3   -3    -3    -5   -5  -4 -4  -3
And the band played Waltz-ing Ma-til-da
-2* 3   -3    -3  -5 -5   -5  -4   -3
As the ship pulled a-way from the quay
-3    -4   -4  -4   -4    -4   -4  -3  -3
And ‘midst all the tears, the flag wav-ing 
-3    -4    -4   -3   -3 -2*  3 -2* 2  -1
And cheers: we sailed off to Gal-li-po-li

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