Subject: Re: Waltzing Matilda From: sam@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Sam Needham) Date: 1991-03-04, 18:59 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Reply-to: sam@math.ucla.edu (Sam Needham) In article GIOVIN%CIRCE@ecs.umass.edu (Rocky Giovinazzo-write to ABC and save Twin Peaks) writes: > > > >In the diary, Laura mentioned a song called Waltzing Matilda > >and I was wondering if this is a real song or not. Has anyone heard of it? > >Does anyone know what the music was that played while Leland > >and Donna danced and also when Madeline dies? Is this > >Waltzing Matilda? > > > >Rocky Easy. Can you tell me what Laura said about it? ( and no, it hasn't been played on TP ). WM is perhaps the most famous Australian folk/popular song. Words by A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson ( who also wrote the poem "The Man From Snowy River" with which the movie has nothing in common except the title ). Music - "traditional". The second most popular folk song, and the most recorded, is Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda", so you can see how important WM is. It's a ballad about a swagman - these days you'd call him a 'homeless person' - and his death, resisting arrest for the crime of sheep-theft. We nearly made it the national anthem. And yes - there's a ghost in it. I'm incredibly tempted to post the words but it just doesn't seem relevant enough! Sam - an aussie in LA [ .sig is from a Bushwacker's Band album called "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda" which I recommend heartily to anyone who wants to hear WM and Bogle's song - Sam] Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lime Farewell to your gangway and your gangplanks and to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay For to take old Pat with a shovel on his back to the shores of Botany Bay.