ozi ozi ozi !
Posted on 12/15/2018 7:50:44 PM PST by Ozguy1945
A reworking of Australia's unofficial natiional anthem.
That’s a minute I’ll never get back...
Another version by my fav conductor, in OZ, at the end of the tour. Even Rieu is in tears...
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André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra - Waltzing Matilda, live in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UFmwArST-I
Cheers
G’night mate.
I wonder why we in Texas don’t wax lyrical about the fates of our poachers and rustlers? Maybe because we were dominated by cattlemen rather than sheepherders and a cow is a much more valuable animal? Which is odd in a way because a cow is, dairy aside, a one ... ah ... “use” critter where a single sheep can keep contributing its wool.
Whatever the prevailing circumstances, the man must have known the sheep belonged to someone else. Wild domesticated sheep just don’t happen. The song neither celebrates his death nor lionizes him. It seemingly presents the facts about a hard time.
“...much deeper pondering...” indeed. Sounds like an elephant with bad gastro-intestinal problems.
ozi ozi ozi !
I'm pretty sure that didn't come out exactly the way you intended.
It’s like that one joke about the farm animals suggesting they make a breakfast to thank the farmer where the pig chides the hen that her eggs are a contribution but his ham is a commitment.
Waltzing Matilda digs deep into the Australian experience. It is a status symbol in Australia to have a convict ancestor. Some of their ancestors were imprisoned in England and deported for stealing a piece of bread to eat. In the song when the swagman is caught stealing a sheep, presumably to eat since he is in the middle of nowhere, he kills himself rather than be taken prisoner and sent to jail. The song addresses poverty, homelessness, loneliness, hunger, class differences, and freedom.
I lived in Australia for a year and one of the most moving experiences I ever had was witnessing thousands of Australians singing Waltzing Matilda on the banks of the Swan River on Australia Day.
Oz - the first boat, people so bad they weren’t sent to Georgia!
And the left is stealing their country right out from under them, just like here.
Yes, it apparently elicits strong emotions in many Aussies. I saw tears being wiped by some in the Rieu audience.
If you can find it watch the film “Ned Kelly” with Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly. He kind of pulls it off! I liked the film. Kelly’s family is still there on a farm out in rural Oz. They still don’t like visitors. I was told not to go there. There are still a lot of raw class emotions over Ned Kelly - hero or villain? Depends who you talk to!
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his “Billy” boiled,[18]
“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”
Chorus:
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his “Billy” boiled,
“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved[N 1] that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”
(Chorus)
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred.
Down came the troopers, one, two, and three.
“Whose is that jumbuck[N 2] you’ve got in your tucker bag?
You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”
(Chorus)
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong.
“You’ll never catch me alive!” said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”
(Chorus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmo6fQ0gYA>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmo6fQ0gYA
Thanks for posting the lyrics
L8r
I was only 13 at the time, but it had the opposite of its intended effect on me. I could easily see how many of the scenarios in the movie were totally devoid of reality, and it made me realize that the movie was pure propaganda. I have mistrusted Hollywood since.
The premise of the movie was that radiation fallout from a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere killed EVERYTHING in the northern hemisphere. People in Australia survived a bit longer, but also knew that they, too, would soon be dead.
> There are still a lot of raw class emotions over Ned Kelly - hero or villain? <
I never heard of Kelly, so I looked him up. The guy wore a suit of bullet-proof armor!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_of_the_Kelly_gang
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