Текст песни: The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away + перевод

You came to this country in fetters and chains

Outlaws and rebels with numbers for names

And on the triangle were beaten and maimed

Blood stained the soil of Australia

Dookies and duchesses, flash lads and whores

You worked their plantations and polished their floors

Lived in their shadow and died in their wars

Blood stained the soil of Australia

Does it quicken your heart beat

To see tar and concrete

Cover the tracks of the old bullock dray

Have you grown so heartless

To christen it progress

When the swaggies have all waltzed Matilda away

Driven like dogs from your own native home

Hardship and poverty caused you to roam

Over the bracken and over the foam

Blood stained the soil of Australia

Then in the fever for fortune and fame

You caused the poor blacks to suffer the same

Imprisoned on missions or hunted for game

Blood stained the soil of Australia

Its two hundred years since you came to this land

Betrayed by the girl with the black velvet band

And still to this day you don’t understand

Blood stained the soil of Australia

Koori and white, old Australian and new

Brothers and sisters of every hue

The future is ours, take the wealth from the few

And raise the Red Flag in Australia

Let it quicken your heart beat

The road’s at your own feet

Travel it lightly and travel it well

And don’t speak of success

Or christen it progress

Til the swaggies can all waltz Matilda as well

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