WALTZING MATILDA SPECIAL 1001 PRESENTATION "THANKS AUSTRALIA"

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This special 1001 Classic Short Stories presentation honors the people of Australia and their heritage. Done as a thank you for giving 1001 Classic Short Stories and 1001 Heroes so many subscriptions and reviews. have given us huge rankings in Australia. Your national anthem always chokes me up when I hear it, because I recall your sacrifices for freedom in far off places like Gallipoli, North Africa, and the Phillipines. in WWII. The performance included here is listed as Creative Commons and is from National Australia Day 2009, featuring the voices of Wendy Matthews, john Schumann, Brian Cadd, and Kenny......? never got the last name. Can help but get choked up whenever I hear any version but this one is very good. "Waltzing Matilda" by Banjo Paterson SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- CATCH OUR SHOWS AT WWW.CASTBOX.FM SUBSCRIBE FREE THEN SHARE THANK YOU 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For 1001 Heroes is still www.1001storiespodcast.com (we redirected that one to www.1001storiesnetwork.com) Website For 1001 Classic Short Stories is still www.1001classicshortstories.com ( we redirected that as well) Website for 1001 Stories For The Road is still www.1001storiesfortheroad (we redirected that one, too) Website for 1001 Radio Days is www.1001radiodays.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to this special presentation of 100 classic short stories and tales as we tip our hats to Australia
0:37.3	today by presenting their national anthem waltzy Matilda originally
0:42.2	written by Australia's legendary poet and folk master, Banjo Patterson.
0:47.8	We did two earlier Banjo Patterson short stories, simply titled The Cat and and the dog both being humorous pieces and
0:55.5	wonderful examples of classic short story writing.
0:58.8	Walsching Matilda tells the story of an itinerant worker or swag man making a cup of tea in a bush camp.
1:08.0	When a sheep wanders to the watering hole for a drink, he steals it.
1:12.0	When the police come to get him he drowns himself in the
1:15.8	billabong or watering hole leaving his ghost behind to haunt the site. So it's like this. A swag man is a drifter or itinerant
1:26.3	worker. A Billy is a tin can. A coolabaw is a type of eucalyptus tree
1:31.9	that is often found at a billabong.
1:35.0	A jump buck is a sheep which belongs to the squatter.
1:38.8	A tucker bag is a bag for storing food. Now comes the hard part for us American and other non-Australian English
1:46.6	speakers. A Matilda is a bag that is slung over one shoulder and if you're waltzing Matilda,
1:54.5	it means you're walking around
1:55.8	with all your belongings in a single bag
1:58.3	slung over your back.
2:00.6	The bundle is the swag part of the term swag man, but in a romantic gesture the swag man refers to his swag as
2:08.5	Matilda as though it were a companion accompanying him on his wanderings through the bush.
2:14.3	Oh, there once was a swag man camped in a billabong
2:19.4	under the shade of a coolabah tree and he sang as he looked at the old Billy Boiling
2:26.8	who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?
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