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Waltzing Matilda

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Australian bush ballad

"Waltzing Matilda"
Original manuscript, transcribed by Christina Macpherson, c. 1895
Song
Written	1895
Published	1903
Genre	Bush ballad
Lyricist(s)	Banjo Paterson
Music video
"Waltzing Matilda" by Slim Dusty on YouTube

"Waltzing Matilda" is Australiabush ballad^[1]

The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag^[2] 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 jumbucksquatter (landowner), and three troopers (mounted policemen) pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never catch me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong

The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo PatersonWaltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback^[3] 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.^[4][5]

The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow.^[6] In 2008, this recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the Sounds of Australia registry in the National Film and Sound Archive^[4]

Contents

• 1 History
  • 1.1 Writing of the song
  • 1.2 Alternative theories
  • 1.3 Ownership
• 2 Lyrics
  • 2.1 Typical lyrics
  • 2.2 Glossary
  • 2.3 Variations
• 3 Status
  • 3.1 Official use
  • 3.2 Sports
  • 3.3 Military units
• 4 Covers and derivative works
  • 4.1 Film
  • 4.2 Video games
  • 4.3 Sport
  • 4.4 Stage
  • 4.5 Derivative musical works
• 5 References
• 6 External links

History[edit]

Writing of the song[edit]

Combo Waterhole, thought to be the location of the story that inspired "Waltzing Matilda"

The Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote the words to "Waltzing Matilda" in August 1895^[7] while staying at Dagworth Station, a sheep and cattle station near Winton in Central West Queenslandzither or autoharp by 31‑year‑old Christina Macpherson (1864–1936),^[8][9] one of the family members at the station.

Macpherson had heard the tune "The Craigielee March" played by a military band while attending the Warrnambool steeplechase^[10][11]

The march was based on the music the Scottish composer James Barr composed in 1818 for Robert Tannahill^[12] In the early 1890s it was arranged as "The Craigielee" march music for brass band by Australian composer Thomas Bulch^[10]

Fortified temporary shearing shed at Dagworth Station^[10]

It has been widely accepted^[13] that "Waltzing Matilda" is probably based on the following story:

In Queensland in 1891 the Great Shearers' Strike brought the colony close to civil war and was broken only after the Premier of Queensland, Samuel Griffithstrike^[14] also known as "Frenchy".^[15] Rather than be captured, Hoffmeister shot and killed himself at the 4 Mile Creek south of Kynuna at 12.30pm on 2 September, 1894.

Bob Macpherson (the brother of Christina) and Paterson are said to have taken rides together at Dagworth. Here they would probably have passed the Combo Waterhole, where Macpherson is purported to have told this story to Paterson. Although not remaining in close contact, Paterson and Christina Macpherson had different recollections of where the song was first composed- Christina said it was composed "in Winton" while Paterson said it was at "Dick's Creek" on the road to Winton. Amongst Macpherson's belongings, found after her death in 1936, was an unopened letter to a music researcher that read "... one day I played (from ear) a tune, which I had heard played by a band at the Races in Warrnambool ... he [Paterson] then said he thought he could write some words to it. He then and there wrote the first verse. We tried it and thought it went well, so he then wrote the other verses." Similarly, in the early 1930s on ABCWaltzing Matilda."^[10]

The song itself was first performed on 6 April 1895 by Sir Herbert Ramsay, 5th Bart., at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton, Queensland

In February 2010, ABC News^[16]

Alternative theories[edit]

Several alternative theories for the origins or meaning of "Waltzing Matilda" have been proposed since the time it was written. Still, most experts now essentially agree on the details outlined above. Some oral stories collected during the twentieth century claimed that Paterson had merely modified a pre-existing bush song, but there is no evidence for this. In 1905, Paterson himself published a book of bush ballads he had collected from around Australia entitled Old Bush Songs, with nothing resembling "Waltzing Matilda" in it. Nor do any other publications or recordings of bush ballads include anything to suggest it preceded Paterson. Meanwhile, manuscripts from the time the song originated indicate the song's origins with Paterson and Christina Macpherson, as do their own recollections and other pieces of evidence.^[10]

There has been speculation^[17] about the relationship "Waltzing Matilda" bears to an English song, "The Bold Fusilier" (also known as "Marching through Rochester", referring to Rochester in Kent and the Duke of Marlborough^[18] There is, however, no documentary proof that "The Bold Fusilier" existed before 1900, and evidence suggests that this song was in fact written as a parody of "Waltzing Matilda" by English soldiers during the Boer War^[10] The first verse of "The Bold Fusilier" is:

A bold fusilier came marching back through Rochester
Off from the wars in the north country,
And he sang as he marched
Through the crowded streets of Rochester,
Who'll be a soldier for Marlboro and me?

In 2008 Australian amateur historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers' Strike, was false and a "misappropriation" by political groups.^[19] Forrest asserted that Paterson had in fact written the self-described "ditty^[20] This theory was not shared by other historians like Ross Fitzgerald, emeritus professor in history and politics at Griffith University^[20] Fitzgerald stated, "the two things aren't mutually exclusive"^[20]—a view shared by others who, while not denying the significance of Paterson's relationship with Macpherson, nonetheless recognise the underlying story of the shearers' strike and Hoffmeister's death in the lyrics of the song.^[10]

Ownership[edit]

Paterson sold the rights to "Waltzing Matilda" and "some other pieces" to Angus & Robertson for five Australian pounds

In 1903 Marie Cowan was hired by tea trader James Inglis to alter the song lyrics for use as an advertising jingle^[21] Cowan, who was married to Inglis's accountant, adapted the lyrics and set them to music in 1903.^[22][23]

A third variation on the song, with a slightly different chorus, was published in 1907.

Although no copyright applied to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to an American publisher, Carl Fischer Music, following the song being played at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta^[24] According to some reports, the song was copyrighted by Carl Fischer Music in 1941 as an original composition.^[25] However, The Sydney Morning Herald said that Carl Fischer Music had collected the royalties on behalf of Messrs Allan & Co, an Australian publisher that claimed to have bought the original copyright, though Allan's claim "remains unclear".^[26] Arrangements such as those claimed by Richard D. Magoffin remain in copyright in America.^[27]

Lyrics[edit]

Typical lyrics[edit]

There are no "official" lyrics to "Waltzing Matilda" and slight variations can be found in different sources.^[28] This version incorporates the famous "You'll never catch me alive said he" variation introduced by the Billy Tea^[21] Paterson's original lyrics referred to "drowning himself 'neath the Coolibah Tree^[29] The following lyrics are the Cowan version.

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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his "Billy" boiled,^[21]
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

Chorus:
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his "Billy" boiled,
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved^{[N 1]} that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

(Chorus)

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred.
Down came the troopers, one, two, and three.
"Whose is that jumbuck^{[N 2]} 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)

1. ^ sometimes "stowed"
2. ^ sometimes "Where's that jolly jumbuck"

Glossary[edit]

Photograph of a swagman

Painting of a swagman camped by a billabong, Gordon Coutts, 1889, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The lyrics contain many distinctively Australian English

waltzing 

derived from the German term auf der Walz, which means to travel while working as a craftsman

Matilda

a romantic term for a swagman's bundle. See below, "Waltzing Matilda".

Waltzing Matilda

from the above terms, "to waltz Matilda" is to travel with a swag, that is, with all one's belongings on one's back wrapped in a blanket or cloth. The exact origins of the term "Matilda" are disputed; one fanciful derivation states that when swagmen met each other at their gatherings, there were rarely women to dance with. Nonetheless, they enjoyed a dance and so danced with their swags, which was given a woman's name. However, this appears to be influenced by the word "waltz", hence the introduction of dancing. It seems more likely that, as a swagman's only companion, the swag came to be personified as a woman.

The National Library of Australia states:

Matilda is an old Teutonic female name meaning "mighty battle maid". This may have informed the use of "Matilda" as a slang term to mean a de facto wife who accompanied a wanderer. In the Australian bush a man's swag was regarded as a sleeping partner, hence his "Matilda". (Letter to Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, KG from Harry Hastings Pearce, 19 February 1958. Harry Pearce Papers, NLA Manuscript Collection, MS2765)^[30]

swagman

a man who travelled the country looking for work. The swagman's "swag

billabong

an oxbow lake

coolibah tree

a kind of eucalyptus tree which grows near billabongs

jumbuck

a sheep^[30]

billy

a can for boiling water in, usually 1–1.5 litres (2–3 pints)

tucker bag

a bag for carrying food

troopers

policemen

squatter

Australian squatters started as early farmers who raised livestock on land which they did not have the legal title to use; in many cases they later gained legal use of the land even though they did not have full possession, and became wealthy thanks to these large land holdings. The squatter's claim to the land may be as unfounded as is the swagman's claim to the jumbuck.

Variations[edit]

The lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda" have been changed since it was written.

In a facsimile of the first part of the original manuscript, included in Singer of the Bush, a collection of Paterson's works published by Lansdowne Press in 1983, the first two verses appear as follows:

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

Chorus:
Who'll come a waltzin' Matilda my darling,
Who'll come a waltzin' Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a water bag,
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

Down came a jumbuck to drink 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.

Some corrections in the manuscript are evident; the verses originally read (differences in italics):

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
Who'll come a roving Australia with me?

Chorus:
Who'll come a rovin (rest missing)
Who'll come a waltzin' Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a tucker bag.
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

It has been suggested that these changes were from an even earlier version and that Paterson was talked out of using this text, but the manuscript does not bear this out. In particular, the first line of the chorus was corrected before it had been finished, so the original version is incomplete.

The first published version, in 1903, differs slightly from this text:

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabongs,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
"Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?"

Chorus:
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda, my darling,
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a water-bag,
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the waterhole,
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 waltzing Matilda with me.

(Chorus)

Up came the squatter a-riding his thoroughbred,
Up rose the troopers—one, two, a and three.
"Whose the jolly jumbuck you've got in the tucker-bag?
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with we."

(Chorus)

Up sprang the swagman and jumped in the waterhole,
Drowning himself by the Coolibah tree.
And his voice can be heard as it sings in the billabongs,
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me.

(Chorus)

By contrast with the original, and also with subsequent versions, the chorus of all the verses was the same in this version. This is also apparently the only version that uses "billabongs" instead of "billabong".

Current variations of the third line of the first verse are "And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong" or "And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled". Another variation is that the third line of each chorus is kept unchanged from the first chorus, or is changed to the third line of the preceding verse.

There is also the very popular so-called Queensland version^[31][32] that has a different chorus, one very similar to that used by Paterson:

Oh there once was a swagman camped in a billabong
Under the shade of the coolibah tree
And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?

Chorus:
Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda my darling?
Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a water bag
Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me?

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water hole
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag
You'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me

(Chorus)

Down came the squatter a'riding his thoroughbred
Down came policemen one two three
Whose is the jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me

(Chorus)

But the swagman he up and he jumped in the water hole
Drowning himself by the coolibah tree
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the billabong
Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me?

(Chorus)

Status[edit]

Waltzing Matilda mural on the side of an Ansett Boeing 737-300

In May 1988 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Chief Executive, John Sturman, presented five platinum awards, "which recognised writers who had created enduring works which have become a major part of the Australian culture", at the annual APRA Awards ceremony as part of their celebrations for the Australian Bicentenary^[33] One of the platinum awards was for Paterson and Cowan's version of "Waltzing Matilda".^[33][34]

Official use[edit]

The song has never been the officially recognised national anthem in Australia. Unofficially, however, it is often used in similar circumstances. The song was one of four included in a national plebiscite to choose Australia's national song held on 21 May 1977 by the Fraser GovernmentAdvance Australia Fair", 19% for "God Save the Queen" and 10% for "Song of Australia^[35]

Australian passports issued from 2003 have had the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda" hidden microscopically in the background pattern of most of the pages for visas and arrival/departure stamps.^[36]

Sports[edit]

"Waltzing Matilda" was used at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and, as a response to the New Zealand All Blacks haka, it has gained popularity as a sporting anthem for the Australia national rugby union teamAFL

Matilda the Kangaroo was the mascot at the 1982 Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane^[37] accompanied by Rolf Harris

The Australian women's national soccer team^[38]

Military units[edit]

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^[39][40] Partly also used in the British Royal Tank Regiment's slow march of "Royal Tank Regiment", because an early British tank model was called "Matilda

Covers and derivative works[edit]

In 1995, it was reported that at least 500 artists in Australia and overseas had released recordings of "Waltzing Matilda", and according to Peter Burgis of the National Film and Sound Archive^[41] Among the artists and bands who have covered the song include Frank Ifield, Rod Stewart, Chubby Checker, Liberace, Harry Belafonte, Bill Haley and the Comets, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir,^[41] Helmut Lotti, Wilf Carter (Montana Slim), the Irish Rovers, and Burl Ives,^[42] The Swingle Singers and the Red Army ChoirJimmie Rodgers^[43]

On 14 April 1981, on Space Shuttle Columbia's first mission, country singer Slim Dusty^[44][45]

In the Kidsongs 1986 recording I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing where Mr. World and the Kidsongs Kids visit the Australians, the final two verses were replaced with the repeat of the first verse to make it more kid-friendly. Only this time, new words such as "Traveller" took the original ones' places such as "Swagman".^{[citation needed]}

Film[edit]

Versions of the song have been featured in a number of mainly Australian films and television programs.

Waltzing Matilda is a 1933 Australian film directed by and starring Pat Hanna^[46] It features a young Coral Browne^[47]

Using the first line of the song, Once a Jolly Swagman is a 1949 British film starring Dirk Bogarde^[48]

There was an animated short made in 1958 for Australian television^[49]

Ernest Gold used the song and variations of it extensively in the 1959 film On the Beach.^[50][51]

The 2017 short film Waltzing Tilda features various versions of the song and it is also sung by the main character.^[52][53]

The 2019 HBO American film Deadwood: The Movie featured characters Al Swearengen and Jewel singing a version of the song at the end of the film.^[54] The movie is set in 1889 so pre-dates the creation of the song.

Video games[edit]

It is the theme song for Australia in the video game Civilization VI.^[55]

Sport[edit]

"Waltzing Matilda" is a fixture at many Australian sporting events. Jessica Mauboy and Stan Walker recorded a version of "Waltzing Matilda" to promote the 2012 Summer Olympics^[56][57]

Stage[edit]

On the occasion of Queensland's 150-year celebrations in 2009, Opera Queensland produced the revue Waltzing Our Matilda, staged at the Conservatorium Theatre^[58] The show was created by Jason^[59] The story line used the fictional process of Banjo Paterson writing the poem when he visited Queensland in 1895 to present episodes of four famous Australians: bass-baritone Peter Dawson (1882–1961), soprano Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Bundabergtenor Donald Smith (1922–1998), and soprano Gladys Moncrieff^[60]

Derivative musical works[edit]

• During the 1950s, a parody of the original entitled "Once a Learned Doctor" gained some currency in university circles. It featured lyrics rewritten with reference to the split in the Australian Labor Party^[61]
• In 1961, Australian songwriter Jack O'Hagan provided new lyrics to the traditional tune to be called "God Bless Australia" (see that article for its lyrics) that he hoped would become the Australian national anthem^[62]
• "And the Band Played Waltzing MatildaEric BogleBattle of Gallipoli and Anzac Day^[63]
• Rambling Syd Rumpo (played by Kenneth Williams) in the late 1960s BBC radio programme Round the Horne did a parody of "Waltzing Matilda" beginning "Once long ago in the shade of a goolie bush..."^[64]
• The Family Car Songbook (1983) presents a "translation" of the song, using the same musical score, into an "American" version.^[65]
• Tom Waits' 1976 song "Tom Traubert's Blues^[66]

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• Papers of Christina McPherson relating to the song "Waltzing Matilda" digitised and held by the National Library of Australia
• "Waltzing Matilda" – Standing Stones website
• Waltzing Matilda – The Musical, musically correct transcription of the Christina Macpherson version
• Playable scoreSibelius (software)
• First recording of the song "Waltzing Matilda", australianscreen online

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