Waltzing Matilda - 橄欖球

澳洲有名的民謠，不只橄欖球，在很多比賽都聽的到澳洲人唱這首愛國歌曲。
歌詞有許多版本，並且用了許多澳洲俚語。
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以下的歌詞是最常見的版本︰

Waltzing Matilda

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

Chorus

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me
And he sang as he watched and waited til his billy boiled
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tuckerbag
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

(Chorus)

Up rode the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred
Down came troopers one two three
Whose that jumbuck you've got in the tuckerbag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

(Chorus)

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong
You'll never catch me alive said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me


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(安靜︰一位天使穿過這漫長的瞬間，它漫長得像一百個太陽的生命)

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