Waltzing Matilda Lyrics - Bon Jovi

1 Original title: Tom Traubert's Blues

2 Written by: Tom Waits (1976)

3 (Sung by Tico Torres)

4 Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the mood did,

5 I've got what I prayed for now

6 I'll see you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you

7 To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,

8 You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

9 I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley

10 And I'm tired of all these soldiers here

11 No one speaks English, and everything's broken, and my Stacys are

12 soaking wet to go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,

13 You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

14 Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her

15 And the one-armed bandit knows

16 That the maverick Chinaman with his cold-blooded style

17 And the girls stand by the strip-tease shows, go

18 Waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,

19 You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

20 Now I don't want your sympathy, the fugitive says

21 That the streets ain't for dreaming now

22 Manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,

23 want a piece of the action anyhow

24 Go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda,

25 You'll go waltzing Mathilda with me

26 It's a battered old suitcase in a hotel someplace,

27 And a wound that will never heal

28 No prima donnas, the perfume is on

29 It's an old shirt that's stained with blood and whiskey

30 And goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen, the flame

31 keepers

32 Goodnight Mathilda, too

33 And Goodnight Mathilda, too