1/19/2024 0 Comments One moment in time satbThe song was then sung, with piano accompaniment, in a house in Winton (owned by members of the Riley family). Paterson and others have left accounts of the song being written at Dick's Creek, en route to Winton from Dagworth Station. Credible accounts exist of the later verses being written at Dagworth Station, a sheep station 130 km north west of Winton in Central West Queensland, owned by the Macpherson family. Paterson offered to write some lyrics to suit the melody and, in Christina's own words, "He then and there wrote the first verse." The rest of the song was written over a period of some three or four weeks in August 1895 at a number of locations. On arrival, he attended a gathering where he heard Christina Macpherson, Sarah's best friend from school days, play a tune to entertain those present. During his annual holiday, Paterson made the 5-day journey to Winton, in central Queensland, to visit Sarah Riley, his fiancée of 7 years, and to see first-hand how people lived on the enormous, remote sheep stations in Central Queensland. Banjo was the name of his favourite horse on his father's farm. By night he wrote his much-loved poetry and moonlighted as a freelance journalist under the pen name of "The Banjo". In 1895, Andrew Barton Paterson was living in Sydney, NSW. History Writing of the song Combo Waterhole, thought to be the location of the story that inspired "Waltzing Matilda" In 2008, this recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the Sounds of Australia registry in the National Film and Sound Archive, which says that there are more recordings of "Waltzing Matilda" than any other Australian song. The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow. In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, wrongly thought at the time to be the anniversary of its first performance. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback, where Paterson wrote the lyrics. The original lyrics were composed in 1895 by Australian poet, Banjo Paterson, to a tune played by Christina Macpherson. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter ( grazier), and three troopers (mounted policemen) pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never catch me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong ( watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or " swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" ( swag) slung over one's back. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". " Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad.
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