All Music & Lyrics by
Chris Gleason
Mule-in-a-Swamp Music / ASCAP

All instruments, vocals, engineering, mixing, production & photography
by Chris Gleason
at Noise Floor Delirium, Roslindale, MA

Lyrics

MATILDA STOMP (NEW CHEMIROCHA BLUES)

Words & Music by Chris Gleason
Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
© 2021

Halt! Waltz!
Halt! Waltz!
Halt! Waltz!
Halt!
Whup!
Waltz!

Great Rift Valley
Wind-up gramophone
Six-string chepkong
Yellow-wood tree
Great Rift Valley
Sing to me, Chemirocha
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.

Praise the lord and cover your eyes
One will be taken
and slaughtered inside
Down to the hospital
Blood for the military
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.

Halt! Matilda
Waltz! Matilda
Halt! Matilda
Whup!
Waltz!
Halt! Matilda
Waltz! Matilda
Halt! Matilda
Whup!
Waltz!

Why do they ask us to cover our eyes?
What are they hiding?
What do they eat?
Slow, nice music
Sing with me, Chemirocha
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.

We danced and danced ‘til our pants fell off
Under the shade of a yellow-wood tree,
Danced until our pants fell off
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.

Halt! Matilda.
Waltz! Matilda.
Halt! Matilda.
Whup!
Waltz!
Halt! Matilda.
Waltz! Matilda.
Halt! Matilda.
Whup!
Waltz!

Halt! Blue Yodeler.
Waltz! Chemirocha.
Halt! Blue Yodeler
Whup!
Waltz!
Blue Yodeler. Halt!
Chemirocha. Waltz!
Blue Yodeler. Whup! Halt! Waltz!