Waltzing Mathilda

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Waltzing Mathilda

• An Australian folk song

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A swagman

• This a real swagman (in Australian) or hobo (in
  English).
• He carries a  swag , a bag or a rolled blanket.

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Whats the English for these Australian words?

• a billy
• A jumbuck
• A swag
• A swagman

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The story

• "Waltzing Matilda" is Australias most famous
  folk song, so famous that it is nearly their
  national anthem. But Australias national anthem
  is  Advance Australia Fair 
• The song narrates the story of an itinerant
  worker making a drink of tea at a bush camp and
  stealing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner
  arrives with three police officers to arrest the
  worker, he drowns himself in a small lake and
  goes on to haunt the site.

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He camps by a billabong

• A billabong.
• Whats the English for  billabong ?

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under the shade of a coolabah tree

• A coolabah tree.

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The song

• Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,Under
  the shade of a coolibah tree,And he sang as he
  watched and waited 'til his billy boiled"Who'll
  come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"Along came a
  jumbuck to drink at the billabong,Up jumped the
  swagman and grabbed him with glee,And he sang as
  he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,"You'll
  come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".Waltzing
  Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come a-Waltzing
  Matilda, with me"And he sang as he stowed that
  jumbuck in his tucker bag,"You'll come
  a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".Up rode the
  squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,Down came
  the troopers, one, two, three,"Whose is that
  jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?""You'll
  come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".

• Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come
  a-Waltzing Matilda, with me""Whose is that
  jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?","You'll
  come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".Up jumped the
  swagman and leapt into the billabong,"You'll
  never catch me alive," said he,And his ghost may
  be heard as you pass by that billabong,"Who'll
  come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"Waltzing
  Matilda, Waltzing MatildaWho'll come a-Waltzing
  Matilda, with meAnd his ghost may be heard as
  you pass by that billabong,"Who'll come
  a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"

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For more information

• Youll find lots of information on the origins of
  the song, the translation of Australian words and
  the different interpretations and versions on the
  Internet
• http//fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
• And if you want to hear different versions
• http//www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/5-soun
  d.html