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The song "Waltzing Matilda", by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, is the almost national anthem [3] [4] to which the young Australian volunteers of Bogle's song march to war and return from war and which is played when the war is remembered. At the conclusion of Bogle's song, its melody and a few of its lyrics, with modifications, are incorporated.
Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is an Australian folk singer-songwriter. ... Prominent among these is "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", ...
Eric Bogle's 1971 song "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" relates the story of a former swagman whose comrades got killed in the Gallipoli campaign and who himself lost his legs. The end of the song includes a fragment of "Waltzing Matilda".
The Bushwackers Band, often simply the Bushwackers, are an Australian folk and country music band or bush band founded in 1970. Their cover version of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (1976) was listed in the APRA Top 30 Australian songs in 2001, alongside its writer Eric Bogle's 1980 rendition.
It consists almost entirely of cover songs and musical renditions of poems. The album includes covers of artists and groups such as Eric Bogle, Judy Small, Cold Chisel, as well as a number of songs previously released by Schumann, either as a solo artist or during his time with Redgum.
[5] [6] [7] The band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash (1985), continued such themes on tracks such as "The Old Main Drag", which depicts a teenager arriving in London and descending into addiction and sex work, [8] and also included cover versions of songs by the folk singers Ewan MacColl and Eric Bogle. [5]
With Paul Wishart on saxophone "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a cover version of the song by Eric Bogle. Release
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