Australian Folk Music

Eric Bogle: “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

First heard this in a pub in Dublin in ’78. This video was made for Canadian schools.

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    I’d ask if you could pick a more depressing folk song but we have few folk songs that aren’t depressing. Even Waltzing Matilda itself is about an itinerant worker who steals sheep and then commits suicide.

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      I file this one under “Lest We Forget.”

      My Dad used to sing “Waltzing Matilda” when I was a kid. Mayhap because he was already a fan of C. J. Dennis & fellows. 😉

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