Waltzing Matilda [Dm]

artist:Uke Nomad

, writer:Banjo Paterson

Chords:

 {t: Waltzing Matilda [Dm]}  
{key: Dm}  
{artist:Uke Nomad}  
https://youtu.be/2gi6ShIpers Arrangement Anu Grace 2019 - https://www.anugrace.com/        {sob} 92 bpm {eob}played on the offbeat
{c: Part 1 tabs - play over verse pattern }
{sot}
.  Dm    A7    Dm   Gm    Dm         Dm       A7       A7
A|----8--7--10----8--8--5----0--5--7--8--5----8--7--5--7----5--7-
E|---------------------------------------------------------------
C|---------------------------------------------------------------
g|---------------------------------------------------------------
{eot}
{sot}
.  Dm    A7    Dm   Gm    Dm         Dm      A7   Dm
A|----8--7--10----8--8--5----0--5--7--8--5---4-5-7-5--
E|----------------------------------------------------
C|----------------------------------------------------
g|----------------------------------------------------
{eot}
{c: Part 2 tabs - harmonises line 2 of Part 1}
{sot}
A|----12-10-13----12-12-10--------10-12---------------
E|--------------------------10-13---------13-12-13-10-
C|----------------------------------------------------
g|----------------------------------------------------
{eot}
{c: play part 1 & 2 tabs over the verse pattern}
{c:Verse 1}
[Dm] Once a jolly [A7] swagman [Dm] camped by a [Gm] billabong,    
[Dm] Under the [Dm] shade of a [Dm] coolibah [A7] tree,    
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] watched and [Dm] waited till his [Gm] billy boiled    
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me    
{c:Chorus} 
[Dm] Waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda, [Gm] Waltzing Ma-[Gm]tilda   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda with [A7] me    
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] watched and [Dm] waited till his [Gm] billy boiled  
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me. 
{c: play part 1 & 2 tabs over the verse pattern}
{c:Verse 2}
[Dm] Down came a [A7] jumbuck to [Dm] drink at the [Gm] billabong    
[Dm] Up jumped the [Dm] swagman and [Dm] grabbed him with [A7] glee    
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] shoved that [Dm] jumbuck in his [Gm] tucker bag    
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me.    
{c:Chorus} 
[Dm] Waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda, [Gm] Waltzing Ma-[Gm]tilda   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda with [A7] me    
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] shoved that [Dm] jumbuck in his [Gm] tucker bag   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me. 
{c: play part 1 & 2 tabs over the verse pattern}
{c:Verse 3}
[Dm] Up rode the [A7] squatter [Dm] mounted on his [Gm] thoroughbred,    
[Dm] Up rode the [Dm]  troopers, [Dm] one, two, [A7] three.    
"Who's [Dm] that jolly [A7] jumbuck [Dm] you've got in your [Gm] tucker bag?   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me.  "   
{c:Chorus} 
[Dm] Waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda, [Gm] Waltzing Ma-[Gm]tilda   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda with [A7] me    
Who's [Dm] that jolly [A7] jumbuck [Dm] you've got in your [Gm] tucker bag   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing, you [A7] scoundrel, with [Dm] me.
{c: play part 1 & 2 tabs over the verse pattern}
{c:Verse 4}
[Dm] Up jumped the [A7] swagman and [Dm] sprang into the [Gm] billabong,    
(slowing) [Dm] "You'll never [Dm] take me {soi}(slow from here){eoi} a-[Dm]live," said [A7] he    
And his [Dm] ghost may be [A7] heard as you [Dm] pass by that [Gm] billabong,    
"[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me. "   
{c: diminuendo - slowly} 
[Dm] Waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda, [Gm] Waltzing Ma-[Gm]tilda   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda with [A7] me    
And his [Dm] ghost may be [A7] heard as you [Dm] pass by that [Gm] billabong,
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me.
{c:Chorus - back to normal speed}
[Dm] Waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda, [Gm] Waltzing Ma-[Gm]tilda   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[Dm]tilda with [A7] me    
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] watched and [Dm] waited till his [Gm] billy boiled
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing {soi}(slow){eoi}  Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me.
{c:Instrumental fading}
{sos}
And he [Dm] sang as he [A7] watched and [Dm] waited till his [Gm] billy boiled   
[Dm] You'll come a [Dm] waltzing Ma-[A7]tilda with [Dm] me. 
{eos}

Song Info

Title: Waltzing Matilda [Dm]

Artist: Uke Nomad

Writer: Banjo Paterson

Song Types: Folk, OldTime, Ukulele

Key: Dm

Info: This version is a minor key version arranged by Anu Grace with Laurie Bycroft  of Uke Nomad. To quote Anu Grace : "We tour small communities in both Australia and New Zealand, writing songs about the people & landscapes we encounter. Our contemporary and original music is alive, elevating and harmonic, striking a chord within, acknowledging both heart and struggle in the everyday.

Anu Grace Music seeks to inspire the creative process in others, creating  collaborative spaces to express your own musical spirit through the Pop-Up Ukestra  Singing and Ukulele workshops �" connecting through creativity.  "

"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".

The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (ram) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (landowner), and three mounted policemen pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never catch me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site.

The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and were first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback, where Paterson wrote the lyrics. In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance.

Ownership:
In 1903 Marie Cowan was hired to alter the song lyrics for use as an advertising jingle for Billy Tea, making it nationally famous. A third variation on the song, with a slightly different chorus, was published in 1907. Paterson sold the rights to "Waltzing Matilda" and "some other pieces" to Angus & Robertson for five Australian pounds.

Although no copyright applied to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to an American publisher, Carl Fischer Music, following the song being played at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta. According to some reports, the song was copyrighted by Carl Fischer Music in 1941 as an original composition. However, The Sydney Morning Herald said that Carl Fischer Music had collected the royalties on behalf of Messrs Allan & Co, an Australian publisher that claimed to have bought the original copyright, though Allan's claim "remains unclear" .Arrangements such as those claimed by Richard D. Magoffin remain in copyright in America

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Waltzing Matilda [Dm]

artist:Uke Nomad

, writer:Banjo Paterson

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