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- From: jonm@Ingres.COM (Don't Judge a book by your cover)
- Subject: Re: Makem & Clancy, Waltzing Mathilda
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.094257.18208@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- References: <1992Dec15.090627.13036@bsu-ucs> <1gktt3INN3m0@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:42:56 GMT
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- In article <1gktt3INN3m0@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de>, mg@dagoffice.cs.uni-sb.de (Michael Greim) writes...
- >From article <1992Dec15.090627.13036@bsu-ucs>, by 00rdharringt@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rob Harrington):
- >= In article <1992Dec15.094854.8168@teetot.acusd.edu>, jerry@teetot.acusd.edu (Jerry Stratton) writes:
- >=
- >= Hmmmm if memory serves me correct the song is actually
- >= "And the band played Waltzing Mathilda"
- >= about Anzacs in WWI...
- >
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- >I think it is
- > as they march by the billabong
- >
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- I think it should be
- as they camped by the billabong
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- >If my memory serves me correctly, the word is australian and means
- >a kind of dead-end branch of a river or creek. Or was that dried-up branch?
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- A Billabong is a creek/swampy type place
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- Does anyone have the words to
- "and the band played waltzing matilda. It has to be one of
- the most beautiful (if you can call it that) songs about the effects
- of war on people and patriotism etc.
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- I would appreciate any help on this.
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