Waltzing Mathilda Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MickyD 

Cover art for Waltzing Mathilda lyrics by Tom Waits

I love this song. End of it made me cry the first time I heard it, while reading this.

For me it captures the same feel from the original, but in a metropolitan setting. The loneliness, the desperate connection made (swag vs prostitute), the day-to-day survival in your current sitation, as an outcast, the deep resignation that this is your life.

The fact that you only really see jazz in cities adds to this as well.

Same problems within themselves, just different place and differently expressed.