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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.
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.
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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PakalanaPikake
May 19, 2018 at 9:57 PM
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.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 20, 2018 at 12:03 AM
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.
PakalanaPikake
May 20, 2018 at 2:03 AM
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. 😉