there is no copyright for Waltzing Matilda in all countries of the world except the United States. There the copyright is registered by
'Waltzing Matilda', a poem by Banjo Paterson, was first recorded 30 years after it was written in 1895. The melody of the song is attributed to Christina Macpherson, whose family owned the property Dagworth Station near Winton in Queensland, where Paterson was staying when he composed the poem.
(“Banjo”) Paterson, “Waltzing Matilda,” is the unofficial national anthem of Australia known the world over. Paterson's “Waltzing Matilda” became Australia's best-known song—part folk hymn and part national anthem.
Waltzing Matilda has been labelled Australia's 'unofficial' national anthem. The song (originally a poem) was written by Australian poet, Banjo Paterson in the late 19th Century while he was staying at Dagworth Station, a cattle station near Winton in Central West Queensland.
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To carry a swag; to travel the road. A matilda is a swag, the roll or bundle of possessions carried by an itinerant worker or swagman.
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.
billabong. An originally aboriginal word for a section of still water adjacent to a river, cut off by a change in the watercourse, cf. an oxbow lake. In the Australian outback, a billabong generally retains water longer than the watercourse itself, so it may be the only water for miles around. billy.
A billy is a small metal can used for boiling water over an open fire. It's short for billycan. It almost always means to 'make tea' but if you are sitting around an open fire (camping for example) and someone says “I'll boil the billy” this can just mean “boil some water” for coffee, tea or washing up water.
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
The term 'Waltzing' is slang for travelling on foot, and often you will be travelling with your belongings in a 'Matilda'.
On 1 January 2021, the words of the Australian National Anthem were changed on from 'For we are young and free' to 'For we are one and free' by proclamation of Governor General His Excellency The Honourable General David Hurley AC DSC FTSE. New recordings of the Australian National Anthem are now available.
Despite it's status as the official national anthem, Waltzing Matilda (1895), a more uplifting tune with lyrics by Banjo Paterson telling the story of a criminal stealing a sheep, is still widely regarded as Australia's 'unofficial' national anthem. Advance Australia fair.
This version of the national anthem is sung at the WugulOra Morning Ceremony and Salute to Australia. It begins with a verse that is based on a long-extinct Aboriginal language of the Sydney district referred to as 'the Sydney Language'.
Banjo never claimed a copyright for it. He died in 1941. So his original words of the song came out of copyright in 1991.
There are versions in the popular styles of the 30s and 40s, jazz improvisations, classical and choral arrangements as well as those in the style of rock 'n' roll, broadway musicals, dance crazes such as the Twist, 80s big hair and lycra power ballads and some so truly strange that they defy categorisation.
Patterson wrote the words of the song "Waltzing Matilda": the melody by Marie Cowan can be heard at the very end of the movie.
(American slang) Buttocks. Fanny is an extremely offensive Australasian slang term for the female genitalia, so announcing to an Australasian that you ``patted your friend on the fanny'' can can leave him or her with decidedly the wrong impression.
Nippers are young surf lifesavers, usually aged between 5 and 14 years old, in clubs across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Unlike senior surf lifesavers, the majority of them do not patrol the beaches. The focus for Nippers tends to be on fun, and surf awareness.
The billy is an Australian term for a metal container used for boiling water, making tea or cooking over a fire. By the end of the 19th century the billy had become as natural, widespread and symbolic of bush life as the gum tree, the kangaroo and the wattle.
The figure of the "jolly swagman", represented most famously in Banjo Paterson's bush poem "Waltzing Matilda", became a folk hero in 19th-century Australia, and is still seen today as a symbol of anti-authoritarian values that Australians considered to be part of the national character.
According to local legend, that billabong is Combo Waterhole, outside Kynuna in outback Queensland.
Etymology. Although there is a suggestion that the word may be associated with the Aboriginal billa (meaning water; cf. Billabong), it is widely accepted that the term billycan is derived from bouilli can, the name given to the empty cannisters used for preserving Soup and bouilli and other foods.
chiefly Australia. : a bag used especially by travelers in the bush to hold food.
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The Marcha Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾtʃa reˈal]; "Royal March") is the national anthem of Spain. It is one of only four national anthems in the world – along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, San Marino and Kosovo – that have no official lyrics.