Testo Tom Taubert's Blues

Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did I got what I paid for now see you tomorrow hey Frank can I borrow a couple of bucks from you, to go waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me 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 are soaking away to go waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me now the dogs they are barking and the taxi cabs parking a lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me you tore my shirt open and I'm down on my knees tonight Old Bushmills I staggered you buried the dagger in your silhouette window light to go waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me now that 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 sign and the girls down by the striptease shows go waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me 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 Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me and you can ask any sailor and the keys from the jailor and the old men in wheelchairs know that Mathilda's the defendent, she killed about a hundred and she follows wherever you may go waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda, you'll go waltzing Mathilda with me and it's a battered old suitcase in a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal no prima donnas the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey and goodnight to the street sweepers the night watchman flame keepers and goodnight Mathilda too