Waltzing Matilda Original Wording

The version of the song that all Australian's know and love (some call it our unofficial National Anthem) goes like this: Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till 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 till his billy boiled, "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me."

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee, And he sang as he shoved 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 shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag, "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me."

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred, Down came 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."

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" "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 the billabong, "You'll never take me alive", said he, And his ghost may be heard as you pass 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 pass by that billabong, "You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me."

but originally, people believe that the words "Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me ?" were written as "Who"ll come a roving Australia with me?" It is also said that a lover of Banjo paterson, Marie Cowan wrote these words. All these years later it is hard to verify anything, but its not an impossible suggestion. Fine Poets are the publishers of the following audio CDS: Jack Thompson,The Bush Poems of Banjo Paterson, Jack Thompson,The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson, Jack Thompson, The Sentimental Bloke, The Poems of C.J. Dennis, Jack Thompson, The Battlefield Poems of A.B.(Banjo Paterson, Jack Thompson, Favourite Australian Poems, Jack Thompson, The Poems of Lewis Carroll, Jack Thompson, Live at the Lighthouse which is a live recording made at the Darwin Festival in 2011 Jack Thompson Live At The Gearin which appears as both CD and DVD and was recorded at a pub Jack owned in Katoomba NSW.

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