Tom Trauberts Blues

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1.: Wasted and wounded, it ain?t what the moon did

I?ve got what I paid for now

See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow

A couple of bucks from you to go

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, you?ll go waltzing

Matilda with me

2.: I?m an innocent victim of a blinded alley
And I?m tired of all these soldiers here
No one speaks english and everything?s broken
And my strength is soaking away to go
Waltzing Matilda,...

3.: Now I?ve lost my St. Christopher
Now that I?ve kissed her
And the one-armed bandit knows
And the maverick chinaman with the cold blooded signs
And the girls down by the striptease shows go
Waltzing Matilda,...

4.: No, I don?t want your sympathy
The fugitives say, that the streets aren?t for dreaming now
Manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories
They want a piece of the action anyhow go
Waltzing Matilda,...

5.: And it?s a battered old suitcase
To a hotel someplace
And a wound that will never heal
No primadonnas, the perfume is on

An old shirt that is stained

With blood and whiskey

And it?s good-night for the street-sweepers,

The nightwatchmen, flame-keepers

And goodnight matilda, too

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Goodnight Matilda, too