pela cochlea>> June Tabor-The Band Played Waltzing Matilida

So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve, to mourn and to pity

But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then they turned all their faces away