Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?" 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 up the billabong Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred Up rode the troopers, one, two, three "Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?" "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" Up jumped the swagman, and sprang into the billabong "You'll never take me alive," said he And his ghost may be heard as you pa** by the billabong "You'll never take me alive," said he Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me And his ghost may be heard as you pa** by the billabong "You'll never take me alive," said he Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me And his ghost may be heard as you pa** by the billabong "You'll never take me alive," said he