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'Banjo' Paterson wrote 'Waltzing Matilda'. It is suitable for a band or solo performer.
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" was written by Scottish-born Eric Bogle in 1971 two years after moving to Australia. During an ANZAC Day (25th April) parade in Canberra, a military band had played Paterson's 'Waltzing Matilda' as veterans marched past. Bogle wrote his song in two weeks as an anti-Vietnam War protest. He originally performed it with eight verses and later cut it back to five verses. In 1974 he performed it in a song contest (he didn't win) and did not release his own recording until his 1978 album Now I'm Easy. By then, there were cover versions in Australia, UK and USA. The author is often incorrectly attributed as 'traditional'.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe lyrics to Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda were written in 1895. They were based on the story of a man named Samuel "Frenchy" Hoffmeister. In September 1894, on the Dagworth sheep station north of Winton, Queensland, some shearers were in a strike that turned violent. The strikers fired off their rifles and pistols in the air and then set fire to the woolshed at the Dagworth Homestead, killing over a hundred sheep. The owner of Dagworth Homestead and three policemen pursued Hoffmeister who, rather than be captured, shot and killed himself at a billabong.
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∙ 9y agoAnd the Band Played Waltzing Matilda was created in 1972.
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