When Margaret was Eleven - Pete St. John

Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" as far as "lyrics : fact" is a mess.

Example:

"Oh its well I remember that terrible day
When our blood stained the sand and the water
How in that hell they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter"

Fact of the matter: The Landings at Suvla Bay were completely unopposed nobody died. The scenes Bogle is trying to described happened a couple of weeks earlier with the initial landings at ANZAC Cove.

If you are going to write a retrospective song "in the tradition" you should at least make some sort of effort to get it right.