Waltzing Matilda
Arranged for EASY PIANO & VOCAL
SINGLE SHEET
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Australia s most loved song is beautifully arranged for Easy Piano and Vocal with lyrics included for all four verses. This sheet music is presented in a glossy double A4 Sized format.
Great Illustrations on the front cover.
A must have for any beginner or collector.
A brief History of Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing Matilda is Australia s most widely known Bush Ballad, a country folk song, and has been referred to as the unofficial national anthem of Australia .
The title is Australian slang for traveling by foot with one s goods in a Matilda (bag) slung over one s back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker or swagman making a drink of tea at a bush camp and capturing a sheep to eat.
When the sheep s ostensible owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker for the theft (a crime punishable by hanging), the worker commits suicide by drowning himself in the nearby watering hole, and then goes on to haunt the site.
The original lyrics were written in 1887 by poet and nationalist Banjo Patterson. It was first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Museum in Winton, Queensland.
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