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"Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". [1] The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" slung over one's back. [2]
The song is an account of the memories of an old Australian man who, as a youngster, had travelled across rural Australia as a swagman, "waltzing [his] Matilda" (carrying his "swag", a combination of portable sleeping gear and luggage) all over the bush and Outback.
"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" (commonly known as "Tom Traubert's Blues" or "Waltzing Matilda") is a song by American musician Tom Waits. It is the opening track on Waits' fourth studio album Small Change, released in September 1976 on Asylum Records.
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'.
The Seekers is the second studio album by the Australian group The Seekers.The album was released in 1964. In some countries, the album was titled Roving with the Seekers. "Waltzing Matilda" was released in November 1963 and peaked at number 74 on the Australian music report.
"The Song of Australia" was composed as the result of 1859 competition to create a "patriotic song", sponsored by the Gawler Institute in Adelaide. The winning lyrics were written by an English-born poet, Caroline Carleton , and the music chosen by the judges was composed by the German-born Carl Linger (1810-1862), [ 1 ] a prominent member of ...
You can't make a national song overnight. It just evolves. That's why holding competitions to find one are not successful." [4] O'Hagan also felt the original words to "Waltzing Matilda" were not suitable for an anthem as being undignified. [4] STW-9 in Perth used this for their sign offs from 1977 until they went 24/7 in 1983.
The 1st Marine Division Band was organized during World War II when the division was based in Australia to participate in the Pacific War.On the occasion of President George Washington's birthday in February 1943, the 1st MARDIV Band played Waltzing Matilda, an Australian bush ballad which would later be the official march of the division.