Roving Matilda - Graham Dodsworth & Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson
this version 2016-05-21

There was a young swagman down by the river,
He lay in the shade of a coolabah tree,
He laughed and he sang while he boiled his black billy,
'You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me'.

Along came a jumbuk to drink at the billabong,
The swaggie crept out and grabbed him with speed,
He laughed and he sang as he filled up his dillybag,
'You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me'.

Then came the squatter riding his stockhorse,
The troopers behind him for flash company,
'Whose is the jumbuk I see in your dillybag,
You'll come a waltzing, you'll come with me.'

You'll come a waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.
He laughed and he sang while he boiled his black billy,
'You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me'.

You'll come a waltzing, waltzing, waltzing Matilda with me,
leading a waterbag,


Out stepped the swagman into the cool river,
I'll never surrender, I'll die first says he,
He sang as he sank down into the deep billabong,
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me, with me, down by the billabong.

You'll come a waltzing, waltzing, waltzing Matilda with me,
leading a waterbag.

You'll come a waltzing Matilda, you'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.
He sang as he sank down into the dark billabong,
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.