This music video about Australia and the first world war is called The Pogues – The band played Waltzing Matilda.
The lyrics are:
When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all overThen in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It’s time to stop rambling ’cause there’s work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the warAnd the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to GallipoliHow well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they…
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