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Australian folk music is the traditional music from the large variety of immigrant cultures and those of the original Australian inhabitants. Celtic , English, German and Scandinavian folk traditions predominated in the first wave of European immigrant music.
Pages in category "Australian folk songs" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and The Wild Colonial Boy heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.
Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (Roud 5478) [1] is a traditional Australian folk ballad dating from the early 19th-century. The narrator, Jim Jones, is found guilty of poaching and sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of New South Wales. En route, his ship is attacked by pirates, but the crew holds them off.
Australian Folk Songs (Decca DL 8749) is a 1958 album by Burl Ives. During his visit to Australia in 1952, invited there by the Australian Broadcasting Commission , Ives met the Reverend Percy Jones, a professor of music at the University of Melbourne .
Alex Hood sings Australian folk songs in the Alex Hood folklore collection - Recorded on 11 April 2002 in Canberra A.C.T. (not for commercial release, recording available via the National Library of Australia, catalogue record available here) Included on Various artists: The Songs of Chris Kempster CKP041 2006
The counsel for the band's record label and publishing company (Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia) claimed that, based on the agreement under which the song was written, the copyright was actually held by the Girl Guides Association. [5]
Brisbane Ladies" is an Australian folksong and is one of many adaptations of the traditional British naval song "Spanish Ladies". The song is also known as "Augathella Station". It is numbered 21114 on the Roud Folk Song Index. [1]