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Lyrics to Waltzing Matilda
by Slim Dusty

[edit]Song title: Waltzing Matilda
[edit]Artist name: Slim Dusty
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[edit]Lyrics language: English
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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 'til his billy boiled.
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 watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.

Down 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.

Instrumental

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
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Where's that jolly 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 the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.

Up jumped the swagman, and sprang into the billabong,
You'll never take me alive said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you're passing by that billabong,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.
And his ghost may be heard as you're passing by that billabong,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.

From his album: "The Very Best of Slim Dusty"
Songwriters/Composers: Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson;
Contributed: Marten Busstra 2009

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Slim Dusty Waltzing Matilda Recording details & track overview

This is probably Australia's best known bush ballad, which came from the poem by Andrew Barton(Banjo) Patterson. An explanation of some of the terms below for our overseas readers. [Swagman:] a tramp or itinerant worker, travelling from one location to another. [Billabong:] A waterhole. [Coolabah Tree:] A type of Eucalyptus tree. [Billy:] I tin in which he boils water or tea. [Matilda:] A bag (swag) for his belongings. Often on a pole over his shoulder and swinging from side to side (waltzing). [Jumbuck:] Male sheep. [Tucker:] Food. [Squatter:] A landowner with no legal claim to the land......MORE.....(all Waltzing Matilda track/recording details)

Slim Dusty biography

Slim Dusty is known as the ‘Father of Australian Country Music’ and was born on 13 June 1927 as David Gordon Kirkpatrick at Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia. He grew up on his father’s dairy farm at nearby Nulla Nulla Creek and at the young age of 10 he wrote his first song, ‘The Way the Cowboy Dies’

While still working on the family property, Slim sang during intervals at cinemas, at rodeos and community concerts and even did some busking on the streets.. In fact he sang whenever and wherever he could.

In 1942 he gatecrashed radio station 2KM Kempsey to record at his own expense, his first record, “Song for the Aussies” and “My Final Song.” In 1946 he signed a recording contract with Columbia for their Regal Zonophone label and recorded six titles including his first country classic “When the Rain Tumbles down in July”., which he had written the year before. Then in 1948 he began a part time career.....MORE.....(full Slim Dusty biography)

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