Members Picker Posted July 17, 2004 Members Share Posted July 17, 2004 found the author and the lyrics... here they are The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Words and Music: Eric Bogle. Copyright: Larrikin Music, Sydney, Australia Reproduced here by kind permission of the author. When I was a young man I carried my pack And I 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 nineteen fifteen the country said, "Son, It's time to stop rambling, there's work to be done." And they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun, And they marched me away to the war. And the band played Waltzing Matilda As our ship pulled away from the quay, And amidst all the cheers, flag-waving and tears We sailed off to 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 call Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter. Johnny Turk he was waiting, he primed himself well, He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell, And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, Nearly blew us right back to Australia. But the band played Waltzing Matilda, As we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, Then we started all over again. Now those that were left, well, we tried to survive In that mad world of blood, death and fire. And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive, But around me, the corpses piled higher. Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, And when I woke up in me 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, To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs, No more Waltzing Matilda for me. So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, And they shipped us back home to Australia. The armless, the legless, the blind and insane, Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla. And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay I looked at the place where me legs used to be, And thanked Christ there was nobody 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 and stared, Then they turned all their faces away. And so now every April I sit on my porch And I watch the parade pass before me. And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, Reviving old dreams of past glory. And the old men marched slowly, all bones stiff and sore, They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war, And the young people ask,"What are they marching for?", And I ask meself 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, Someday no one will march there at all. Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me ? And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong, Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Canadian_Guitar_Guy Posted July 17, 2004 Members Share Posted July 17, 2004 Tears in Heaven, by Eric Clapton and Don't Follow, by Alice in Chains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yearofthespider Posted July 20, 2004 Members Share Posted July 20, 2004 Nirvana- You know You're Right ( Nirvana's last song released, always brings a tear.) Oh me (actually a meatpuppet song but the way kurt sings it, its just great.) Cold- Black Sunday, Cure My tragedy, Sick of Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LanRover Posted July 20, 2004 Members Share Posted July 20, 2004 I generally prefer songs that are more symbolic and less straightforward in their meaning. But I'd have to cast my vote for: Pictures of You - The Cure Change - Blind Melon (Not neccesarily sad, but it makes me cry.) "When you feel life aint worth livin' you got to stand up and take a look around. Look away to the sky. And when your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreamin, cause when you stop dreamin its time to die." -- RIP Shannon Hoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zanadu Posted July 21, 2004 Members Share Posted July 21, 2004 Hows about: Losing It - Rush Fast Car- Tracy Chapman -Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members src053 Posted July 21, 2004 Members Share Posted July 21, 2004 johny cash - ballad of Ira Hayes that story kills me for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MoonSlick Posted July 21, 2004 Members Share Posted July 21, 2004 Calling Elvis, Dire Straits. Some poor sad lonely soul, sitting alone in a mid western farm house, juiced up on moon shine, calls anybody asking for Elvis. "why don't you go get him - I'm his biggest fan you gotta tell him - he's still the man" How sad it that? JetCityMatt: Do you know the tuning Stills used on 4 and 20? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JetCityMatt Posted July 21, 2004 Members Share Posted July 21, 2004 Originally posted by MoonSlick JetCityMatt: Do you know the tuning Stills used on 4 and 20? I've never heard the song- I don't even know how it goes! JCIsbell, do you know the tuning. Can't believe I forgot about "Tears In Heaven" as 'the saddest song'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JSimms Posted July 21, 2004 Members Share Posted July 21, 2004 Originally posted by wooderson "It Makes No Difference" - The Band Yeah man!! What a great song!! Rick Danko had such emotion in his voice, but when Garth Hudson comes in with the saxaphone... Uhhhhh... It kills me every time, especially the version on The Last Waltz. The Band gets overlooked so much. I would also mention Nobidy Home from Pink Floyd. That has to be one of the saddest songs ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MoonSlick Posted July 22, 2004 Members Share Posted July 22, 2004 Sorry JetCityMatt, still getting used to the board The song goes: Four and twenty years ago, I come into this life, the song of a woman and a man who lived in strife. He was tired of being poor and he wasn't into selling door to door and he worked like the devil to be more. A different kind of poverty now upsets me so. Night after sleepless night, I walk the floor and I want to know- why am I so alone? Where is my woman can I bring her home? Have I driven her away? Is she gone? Morning comes to sunrise and I'm driven to my bed. I see that it is empty and there's devils in my head. I embrace the many colored beast. I grow weary of the torment, can there be no peace? And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease. The tuning is something like all Es with one string different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackmaildesigns Posted July 22, 2004 Members Share Posted July 22, 2004 I used to play it in open d but, yes, I've heard it is in this tunning from top to bottom EEEEBE. I do know that's the tuning used in Suite Judy Blue Eyes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Picker Posted July 22, 2004 Members Share Posted July 22, 2004 That has got to be the weirdest tuning I've ever seen.... How do you tune to all E's??? :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JCIsbell Posted July 22, 2004 Members Share Posted July 22, 2004 Originally posted by Picker That has got to be the weirdest tuning I've ever seen.... How do you tune to all E's??? :eek: Or you can use all d's and an a.6 = normal e5 = down to e4 = up to e3 = down to e2 = normal b1 = normal e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wickedman Posted July 23, 2004 Members Share Posted July 23, 2004 "The Show must go on" by queen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kranak Posted July 23, 2004 Members Share Posted July 23, 2004 Space Oddity - David Bowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stronbeki Posted July 25, 2004 Members Share Posted July 25, 2004 ;( Muse - unintended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Irish Wolf Posted July 26, 2004 Members Share Posted July 26, 2004 "asleep" by the smiths mutha{censored}as Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wpear1 Posted July 27, 2004 Members Share Posted July 27, 2004 How about "Tears In Heaven" (Clapton), and "All of My Love (Plant)". Also, "Love Hurts" (Nazareth)...guitar solo screams pain. A newer one would be Evenscence's "Hello"...very sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lyonsshare Posted July 27, 2004 Members Share Posted July 27, 2004 Millworker by Taylor It's not so much sad, as inescapably depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roughtrade Posted August 3, 2004 Members Share Posted August 3, 2004 Looks like Johnny Cash is all over this The Mercy Seat Cocaine Blues Frankie and Johnny Hank Williams has to be the king of this...damn near everything he did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kranak Posted August 3, 2004 Members Share Posted August 3, 2004 Down in a Hole - AIC Jeff patterson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eddieboston Posted August 4, 2004 Members Share Posted August 4, 2004 They Never Came Home, by Christy Moore. The closest I've ever come to crying upon hearing a song for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blackberry Posted August 4, 2004 Members Share Posted August 4, 2004 It Makes No Difference was a great pick. I'd also say Descending by the Black Crowes. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young River by Joni Mitchell Pretty Angry by Blues Traveler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jakks Posted August 6, 2004 Members Share Posted August 6, 2004 I would have to say Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel...it's the saddest song I know of. Mercy Street from the PoV tour too. River by Joni Mitchell is a good one. Jakks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EnzyteMan Posted August 7, 2004 Members Share Posted August 7, 2004 "Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel "Song to the Siren" - This Mortal Coil "Gray Sky Morning" - Verical Horizon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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