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Be warned: I know absolutely nothing about playing a guitar ("don't blame me, I'm only the piano player"??).
Here are three sets of guitar chords, which I understand to relate to the popular 'Victorian version' of Waltzing Matilda', and which I've copied directly from the emails that I've received from the contributers.
A colleague at the A.N.U., David Walsh, provided me with what he assures me are the chords for accompanying Waltzing Matilda on the guitar.
I subsequently received a revision from Peter McPhee, virtually at colosseum.com, and physically just north of Toronto (who was actually looking for the chords for 'Star-Spangled Banner' - and fell over this instead).
D A Bm G D
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
D A7 D A7 D
Under the shade of coolibah tree
D A Bm G
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
Chorus:
D G D
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
D G D D A
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
D A7 Bm G
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
D A Bm G D
Down came a jumbuck to dri-ink at that billabong
D A7 D A7 D
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
D A Bn G
And he sang as he stuffed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
D A Bm G D
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred
D A7 D A7 D
Up rode the troopers, one, two, three
D A Bm G
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?"
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
D A Bm G D
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into that billabong
D A7 D A7 D
"You'll never take me alive!", said he
D A Bm G
And his ghost may be heard as you pa-ass by that billabong
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
And here is what was supplied to me by Nick R. virtually from Geocities, and physically who-knows-where:
C G Am F
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
C G
Under the shade of coolibah tree
C G Am F
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
C G C
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
Chorus:
C F
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
C G
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
C G Am F
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
C G C
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
And I pick it like this:
C:
|-0---------------|
|-----------1-----|
|-------0---------|
|-----2-------2---|
|-3-------3-------|
|-----------------|
G:
|-3---------------|
|-----------0-----|
|-------0---------|
|-----0-------0---|
|-----------------|
|-3-------3-------|
Am:
|-0---------------|
|-----------1-----|
|-------2---------|
|-----2-------2---|
|-0-------0-------|
|-----------------|
C:
|-1---------1-----|
|-------1---------|
|-----2-------2---|
|-3-------3-------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
David Walsh's chords, as revised by Peter McPhee:
D A Bm G
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
D A7
Under the shade of coolibah tree
D A Bm G
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
Chorus:
D G
Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
D A
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
D A7 Bm G
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
D A Bm G
Down came a jumbuck to dri-ink at that billabong
D A7
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
D A Bm G
And he sang as he stuffed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred
D A7
Up rode the troopers, one, two, three
D A Bm G
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?"
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into that billabong
D A7
"You'll never take me alive!", said he
D A Bm G
And his ghost may be heard as you pa-ass by that billabong
D A7 D
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me
[Chorus]
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Original Version: 29 March 1997
Last Amended: 10 July 1999
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