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Trivia: "Waltzing Matilda"

The famous Australian song "Waltzing Matilda" is actually about a swagman and his travels. The song's lyrics are listed below.

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 [refrain]...

Down came a jumbuck

To dri-ink at that billabong

Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee

And he sang as he stuffed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag

You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred

Up rode the troopers, one, two, three

"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?"

You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into that billabong

"You'll never take me alive!", said he

And his ghost may be heard as you pa-ass by that billabong

You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.

- Banjo Patterson circa 1890