Waltzing Wharfie
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Waltzing Matilda - 1998 (rev.)
- This version was written for the 1998 Australian dockers
lockout, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda
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- Once a happy tradesman
- Worked by the waterside
- Under the shadow of a loading gantry
- And he sang as he worked
- And laboured by the waterside
- You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
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- CHORUS
- Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
- You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
- And he sang as he worked
- And laboured by the waterside
- You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
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- Up came a Squatter
- Resplendent in hypocrisy
- Supported by the troopers
- Three by three
- Where's your union ticket
- What's that in your tucker bag
- You'll not work this waterside
- We're going to break your solidarity
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- Waltzing Matilda (chorus)
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- Up jumped the Wharfie
- And called to his brotherhood
- Never a "SCAB"
- You'll ever see me
- And he sang
- As he stood
- A picket of solidarity
- Never a Scab will you make me
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- Waltzing Matilda (chorus)
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- Funded by the taxpayers
- The Squatters formed a company
- Supported by corruption
- and more political hypocrisy
- And they whined as they formed
- "It's for all our society"
- Although few taxes paid
- At all do we
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- Waltzing Matilda (chorus)
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- Along came the judges
- Members of the exclusive legal fraternity
- You've not "closed shop" rights like us
- Cried they
- We're the guardians of the corrupt establishment
- It's been our trust for a century
- We'll allow no honest equality
- Staying as decadent pedophilic and kinky as we please
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- Waltzing Matilda (chorus)
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- Banned were the exports
- Handled by Squatter's hypocrisy
- Grain, wool and cattle
- Internationally
- And they sang as they stood
- Firm in international solidarity
- "We are sisters and brothers in Union.
- Never to be broken are we"
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- Waltzing Matilda (CHORUS)
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- Forever firm in true solidarity, never to be broken are we
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[rewritten by Rick Finney. March 20, 1998]