Subject: Re: Waltzing Matilda
From: PSYMRL@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: 1991-03-07, 03:07
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Lets get cultural here. 

      WALTZING MATILDA (carrying a swag)

Oh! there once was a swagman camped in a Billabong,
    Under the shade of a Coolabah tree;
And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling,
    "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda, my darling,
   Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda and leading a water-bag,
   Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water-hole,
  Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him in glee;
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker-bag,
  "You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me."

Down  came the Squatter a-riding his thoroughbred;
    Down came Policemen - one, two and three.
"Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker-bag?"
    You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.

Up sprang the swagman and jumped in the waterhole,
    Drowning himself by the Coolibah tree;
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong
    "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

                                 Banjo Patterson

                                written 1895, first published 1903

Australia's best ever poet - "Clancy of the Overflow" and  "The Man
from Snowy River" are among his other most famous works.

Michael LeGrande