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Tom Traubert´s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)




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Watch the video and do the following exercises.

 

Unscramble the words in brackets.

 

Wasted and wounded
And it ain't what the  (nmoo) did
I’ve got what I paid for now
See you  (roootrmw)
Hey Frank can I borrow
A (peoucl) of bucks from you
To go waltzing Matilda (tginalwz) Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Unscramble the following lines.

 

  And I'm tired of all these soldiers here

  And my strength is soaking away

  And everything's broken

  of a blinded alley

  I'm an innocent victim

  To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

  No-one speaks English

  You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Write in the missing words. The images may help.


Now the they are barking
and the cab's parking
A lot they can do for me
I you to stab me
You tore my open
And I'm down on my   tonight

Old bush mills I staggered
You buried the  
Your silhouette window 
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Write in the suitable forms of the verbs in brackets.


Now I  (lose) my St. Christopher
Now that I  (kiss) her
And the one-armed bandit  (know)
And the maverick Chinaman
with the cold-blooded sigh
And the girls down by the striptease shows  (go)
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You  (go) waltzing Matilda with me

No I  (not want) your sympathy
Fugitives  (say)
that the streets  (not be) for dreaming now
Manslaughter dragnet
and the ghost that  (sell) memories
(want) a piece of the action anyhow
Go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

Write in or choose the missing words.


And you can ask any
And the from the jailor
And the old men in know
That Matilda's the defendant
She about a hundred
And she follows   you may go
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

And it's a old
in a someplace
And a that would never heal
No donnas the is on
and old shirt is stained with and whiskey
And goodnight to the street ,
The night watchmen keepers
And goodnight Matilda too
Goodnight Matilda too.