"at the water hole, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him in glee, And he sang as he put him away in the tucker bag, You'll come a waltzin' Matilda with me. ""Chorus"": You'll come a waltzing Matilda my darling, You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda and leading a water bag, You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.</poem> Some corrections in the manuscript are evident; the verses originally read (differences in italics): <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he looked"
"Waltzing Matilda ""Waltzing Matilda"" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's ""unofficial national anthem"". The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a ""matilda"" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or ""swagman"", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (landowner), and three mounted policemen pursue the swagman for theft, he declares ""You'll never catch me alive!"" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a"
"swag. Lawson states,""Travelling with the swag in Australia is variously and picteresguely described as ""humping bluey"", ""walking Matilda"", ""humping Matilda"", ""humping your drum"", ""being on the wallaby"", ""jabbing trotters"", and ""tea and sugar burglaring"". Swagmen travelled with fellow 'swaggies' for periods, walking where they had to go, hitch hiking or stowing aboard cargo trains to get around. They slept on the ground next to a campfire, in hollowed out trees or under bridges. In the 19th century, Australian bush poetry grew in popularity alongside an emerging sense of Australian nationalism. The swagman was venerated in poetry and literature as symbolic"
"the younger generation becomes apathetic to the veterans and their cause. At its conclusion, the song incorporates the melody and a few lines of lyrics of the 1895 song ""Waltzing Matilda"" by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. Many cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded, as well as many versions in foreign languages. The song is an account of the memories of an old Australian man who, as a youngster had travelled across rural Australia with a swag (the so-called Matilda of the title) and tent. In 1915 he had joined the Australian armed forces and been sent"
"Under Arms"", first published in serial form in 1882. Two biographies have been written about Morgan: Margaret Carnegie's ""Morgan: The Bold Bushranger"" (1974), and Edgar F. Penzig's ""Morgan the Murderer"" (1989). Banjo Paterson wrote the words of ""Waltzing Matilda"", Australia's most famous folk song, to a tune played on the zither by the grown Christina Macpherson (who was the infant in the 1865 incident above). Morgan is referenced in the song ""Billabong Valley"" by Australian psychedelic rock group King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, released on their 2017 album, ""Flying Microtonal Banana"". Dan Morgan (bushranger) Dan Morgan (30 April 1830"
"mounted on his thoroughbred. Down came the troopers, one, two, and three. ""Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag? You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."" ""(Chorus)"" Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong. ""You'll never catch me alive!"" said he And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong: ""You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."" ""(Chorus)""</poem> The lyrics contain many distinctively Australian English words, some now rarely used outside the song. These include: The lyrics of ""Waltzing Matilda"" have been changed since it was written. In a facsimile of the first part"
"Westfall was the lone staffer at Visto Grande (then called Cimarron Bench Camp) at the time. Westfall, who at the time was a student at Pittsburg State University wrote the song on a trip home to Kansas on a train from Philmont influenced by the ""click-click, click-click"" of the tracks. He later became a professional Scouter in Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma and worked as a salesman for Phillips Petroleum. <poem>Silver on the sage, Starlit skys above, Aspen-covered hills, Country that I love."" Philmont, here's to thee, Scouting paradise, Out in God's country, Tonight."" Wind in whispering pines, Eagle soaring high,"
"months before the Suvla landing. He might have been killed at some point after the April landing at Anzac, but not at Suvla; there was no one there who had ""played their part"" in April. Suvla Bay is ostensibly the setting for the song ""And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"", written by Eric Bogle in 1971, although Bogle admits to having changed the location from Anzac Cove to Suvla, for several reasons, one of them being that he found many Australians mistakenly believed that the ANZAC landing had taken place at Suvla. The song has been recorded by numerous artists,"
"animated feature segment featuring Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians performing the song in the 1948 animated film ""Melody Time"", the last of the short-film anthology features produced by Walt Disney, showing bucolic scenes seen through the changing of the seasons.. Rasbach's setting has also been lampooned, most notably in the ""Our Gang"" short film ""Arbor Day"" (1936), directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, in which Alfalfa (played by Carl Switzer), sings the song in a whiny, strained voice after a ""woodsman, spare that tree"" dialogue with Spanky (George McFarland). Film critic Leonard Maltin has called this ""the poem's all-time worst rendition""."
"The Rattlin' Bog ""The Rattlin' Bog"" is an Irish folk song. It is a version of an internationally distributed folk song type. In the Roud Folk Song Index it has the number 129, and carries such titles as ""The Everlasting Circle,"" ""The Tree on the Hill,"" ""The Green Grass Grew All Around,"" and ""Down in the Lowlands,"" as well as ""The Rattlin' Bog."" The adjective ""rattlin<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" means ""splendid"" in the context of this song. It is a cumulative song, similar to ""The Twelve Days of Christmas"", as it has a list at the end of each verse which grows throughout"
"as ""An Spailpín Fánach"" (translated into English as ""The Rambling Labourer""), ""The Rare Old Mountain Dew"" (published New York, 1882) and in the 20th century, such as ""Waxie's Dargle"". In England the tune is often known as ""Brighton Camp"" and is used for Morris dancing. The song was popular in the US regular army, who adopted it during the War of 1812 after they heard a British prisoner singing it. The song was used by the Army as a marching tune throughout the 19th century. These are the lyrics popular by the army in the 19th century: During the Civil"
"On Springfield Mountain ""On Springfield Mountain"" or ""Springfield Mountain"" (Laws G16) is an American ballad which recounts the tragic death of a young man who is bitten by a rattlesnake while mowing a field. Historically, the song refers to the death of Timothy Merrick, who was recorded to have died on August 7, 1761 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts by snakebite. It is commonly included in collections of American folksong, and is one of the earliest known American ballads. The ballad has been cited as representative of elegiac verse tradition which later gained status as folklore throughout the United States. Due to"
"was available. Some were especially noted for their hospitality, such as Canowie Station in South Australia which around 1903 provided over 2,000 sundowners each year with their customary two meals and a bed. A romanticised figure, the swagman is famously referred to in the song ""Waltzing Matilda"", by Banjo Paterson, which tells of a swagman who turns to stealing a sheep from the local squatter. The economic depressions of the 1860s and 1890s saw an increase in these itinerant workers. During these periods it was seen as 'mobilising the workforce'. At one point it was rumoured that a ""Matilda Waltzers'"
"Walter Kittredge Walter Kittredge (October 6, 1834 – July 8, 1905), was a famous musician during the American Civil War. Born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, the tenth of eleven children, Kittredge was a talented self-taught musician who played the seraphine, the melodeon (types of reed-like organs), and the violin. Kittredge toured solo and with the Hutchinson Family, a musical troupe. Over his career he wrote over 500 songs, many of them dealing with themes of the American Civil War. His most famous song, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, also known as ""Tenting Tonight"", was sung by both sides of"
"nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site. The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and were first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback, where Paterson wrote the lyrics. In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance. The song was first recorded"
"peaks in the Capitol State Forest in Washington State is named ""Big Rock Candy Mountain"". Big Rock Candy Mountain ""Big Rock Candy Mountain"", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. It is a place where ""hens lay soft boiled eggs"" and there are ""cigarette trees."" McClintock claimed to have written the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States, but some believe that at least aspects of the song have existed for far longer. It"
"in what usually is an adult world. The theme song ""My Secret Valley"" was sung to the tune of ""Waltzing Matilda"" and composed by Bob Young, with lyrics by series producer Roger Mirams (credited as David Phillips). ""I had a dream I could ride across the mountaintops"" ""Ride on the waves where the sea turns blue"" ""Gum trees, some trees rise until they touch the sky"" ""I know a place where it all comes true"" Chorus: ""I know a valley, I know a valley"" "" My Secret Valley the world has to see"" ""One place for children, welcome from around"
"and wound up at the Port Alberni. This expedition led to the 1911 opening of the first park in British Columbia called Strathcona Provincial Park. On 7 August 1912 he and his cousin climbed Mount Little which is on the border between Alberta and British Columbia. He took many photos of these mountains. He had a very good singing tenor voice. He rode horses in Oklahoma Valley, Vernon, British Columbia, and on his Uncle Price Ellison's Ranch. He died at the age of 46 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he was visiting his mother (Elizabeth ""Gaga"" Breading Mcilvaine Johnson), from"
"or the lives of bushrangers, swagmen, drovers, stockmen and shearers, continue to influence the genre. This strain of Australian country, with lyrics focusing on Australian subjects, is generally known as ""bush music"" or ""bush band music"". ""Waltzing Matilda"", often regarded as Australia's unofficial national anthem, is a quintessential Australian country song, influenced more by British and Irish folk ballads than by American country and western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet Banjo Paterson in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include ""The Wild Colonial Boy"", ""Click Go the Shears"", ""The Queensland Drover"" and ""The Dying Stockman"". Later"
"called ""The Swagman"", heard on an old music box, plays an important role in solving the mystery. Swagman A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a swag (bedroll). The term originated in Australia in the 19th-century and was later used in New Zealand. Swagmen were particularly common in Australia during times of economic uncertainty, such as the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Many unemployed men travelled the rural areas of Australia on foot, their few meagre possessions rolled up"
"Big Rock Candy Mountain ""Big Rock Candy Mountain"", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. It is a place where ""hens lay soft boiled eggs"" and there are ""cigarette trees."" McClintock claimed to have written the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States, but some believe that at least aspects of the song have existed for far longer. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 6696. The song was first recorded by"
"in the woods but rather near or in water. The reference may be to the native Atakapa tribe who lived in southwestern Louisiana and were, probably incorrectly, said to be cannibals, hence the line in the song, ""if it weren't for the alligators/Atakapans, I'd sleep out in the woods."" The traditional tune is a version of that also commonly used for the folk song Lily of the West. Among the best-known versions of the song are those recorded by the Irish traditional musical group Planxty on ""Cold Blow and the Rainy Night"" in 1974 where they give Mike Waterson as"
"soldiers from Texas. According to historian John D. Winters, they built wooden huts to shelter themselves from the icy winds and rain. At night, after the usual camp routines, the men amused themselves around their campfires with practical jokes and group singing or sat listening to the music of a regimental band. Some of the soldiers often gathered under an arbor of boughs to dance jigs, reels, and doubles to the music of several fiddles. On the opposite side of the camp, another arbor served as a church. There at night with the area lighted by pine knots, men listened"
"the song ""Waltzing Matilda"", which was written by Paterson. In addition, the melody for ""Waltzing Matilda"" can be heard near the end of the film. A Bible Passage from Genesis 30:27, which talks about cattle, goats, and sheep is read aloud in a scene in the middle of the film. The film was not shot in the actual Snowy Mountains but in the Victorian High Country near Mansfield, Victoria, where Burrowes' wife's family had lived for several generations, which was logistically easier.Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum were considered for the dual role of Harrison and Spur before Kirk Douglas was"
"held in Brisbane, Queensland. Matilda was a cartoon kangaroo, who appeared as a high mechanical kangaroo at the opening ceremony, accompanied by Rolf Harris singing ""Waltzing Matilda"". The Australian women's national soccer team is nicknamed the Matildas after this song. It is used as the quick march of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and as the official song of the US 1st Marine Division, commemorating the time the unit spent in Australia during the Second World War. Partly also used in the British Royal Tank Regiment's slow march of ""Royal Tank Regiment"", because an early British tank model was"
"references people that live in trees, particularly Tarzan and The Berenstain Bears. Also, upon learning that Maya finds him attractive, Moe joyfully utters the nonsense phrase ""Oh, frabjulous day, calloo callay!"" which is a reference to a similar line in the Lewis Carroll poem ""Jabberwocky"". When Moe turns on the television in Maya's house, it is showing a scene from ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" featuring the Oompa Loompas singing. Maya tells Moe that the photo of herself she shared with Moe over the internet was taken at Legoland. When Moe meets Maya in person he tears down an"
"fishing guide. He survives mostly by dining on roadkill, but sometimes fresh fish. In the later books, he has become more of a nomad, camping rough in the wilds, often close to the Everglades. Wherever he goes, he travels with an immense library of books, stored at various times in his shack, or in old junker cars parked near his camps. He listens exclusively to music from the 1960s and 70s: the Who, the Beatles, the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Eagles, Moody Blues, etc. In ""Stormy Weather"", he sings ""Box of Rain"" by the Grateful"
"was called Black Morrow"". However, in the ballad, Murray is the surname of the bandit which is unlikely to have derived in etymology from the word Moor. The meaning and origin of ""Black"" is also disputed (see below). The ballad is different to the Mackenzie/Crawford tradition, although both take place during the late 15th century and the outlaw, or bandit, lives in a Scottish forest (but in the ballad, the outlaw owns an entire stronghold in the woodland). Both are also connected to the names Murray, or Morrow. Walter Scott describes the Outlaw Murray of the ballad: ""as a man"
"Union"" had been formed to give representation to swagmen at the Federation of Australia in 1901. During the early years of the 1900s, the introduction of the pension and the dole reduced the numbers of swagmen to those who preferred the free lifestyle. During World War One many were called up for duty and fought at Gallipoli as ANZACs. The song ""And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"" tells the story of a swagman who fought at Gallipoli. The numbers of swagmen have declined over the 20th century, but still rising in times of economic depression. Swagmen remain a romantic icon"
"the great depression it was common for itinerant workers to walk from town to town in search of work - these men (they were almost always men) were known at the time as ""swaggies"". One such worker is celebrated in the ""Henty Man"" tree, located on the Olympic Highway about 7 km south of the township. Although the original has since been replaced, the local folklore is that a ""swaggie"" painted the words, ""Henty 5mi"" onto a stump that resembled a pointing man. The stump was whitewashed, with gloves, boots, a belt, and a swag strap in black. The comical"
"bushranger verses often railed against government tyranny. Classic bush songs on such themes include: The Wild Colonial Boy, Click Go The Shears, The Eumeralla Shore, The Drover's Dream, The Queensland Drover, The Dying Stockman and Moreton Bay. Later themes which endure to the present include the experiences of war, of droughts and flooding rains, of Aboriginality and of the railways and trucking routes which link Australia's vast distances. Isolation and loneliness of life in the Australian bush have been another theme. ""Waltzing Matilda"", often regarded as Australia's unofficial National anthem, is a quintessential Australian folk song, influenced by Celtic folk"
"Eric Bogle Eric Bogle AM (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25, to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of topics, and have been performed by many artists. Two of his best known songs are ""No Man's Land"" (or ""The Green Fields of France"") and ""And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"", with the latter being named one of the APRA Top 30 Australian songs in 2001, as part of the celebrations for the Australasian Performing Right Association's 75th anniversary."
"smithy, surrounded by his tools, at Halton, Lancashire, and fleeing from his royal captor by clinging to a flying bird, on crosses at Leeds, West Yorkshire, and at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Bedale, both in North Yorkshire. English literature was also aware of his giant father Wade. Both the Austrian composer Siegmund von Hausegger (1904) and the Russian composer Leopold van der Pals (1913) used the Wayland saga as inspiration for symphonic poems. Wayland is associated with Wayland's Smithy, a burial mound in the Berkshire Downs. This was named by the English, but the megalithic mound significantly predates them. It is from"