We are taught this song in grade school and what it means. Dr Kap is a woman. For ANZAC Day you needed to play, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle. This was a great next choice. Thank you.
Some translations: Swagman = An intinerant traveller who roamed the land looking for work. Billabong = oxbow lake. Coolibah tree = a kind of eucalyptus tree. Billy = a kind of can with a lid used to boil water and heat things over a fire. Matilda = a Swagman's swag i.e. his bedroll and other possesions rolled in a bundle. Waltzing = walking from place to place. Waltzing Matilda = carrying your matilda from place to place. Jumbuck = a sheep. Tucker = Food. Squatter = Landowner, farmer. Trooper = Police.
A squatter is a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. A billabong is derived from the Aboriginal language meaning a pond or pool of water left following a river receding
@@bernbee1679 Squatter didn’t mean that when this was written. At that time it meant Landowner, Grazier, Farmer. An oxbow lake is the water left over when a river recedes or change course. i.e. a billabong. According to Wikipedia: “In the 19th century, the British government claimed to own all of Australia and tried to control land ownership. Wealthy farmers of livestock claimed land for themselves and thus were known as squatters”
Love this song and performance. Thanks heaps for the reaction, you gotta check out John covering “wind beneath my wings” live at the 1986 Grand Final. Bette Midler made the song famous but it was originally written for John Farnham
Billie ... tin can holds water to boil on fire Billabong .. lagoon, pond, waterhole Swag .. bed wrap and belongings Swagman ... drifter labourer slings his swag or "matilda" holding his belongings over his back and goes Waltzing (to travel on foot/walk to find work especially shearing sheep) Apparently the song by Banjo Patterson sprung out of a great shearers strike. Unionised workers retaliating to Non-unionised workers in 1891. There is a lot of mystery to the beautiful song as to the symbolism and what happened to the swaggy in the end. I love this song .. i believe the melody was inspired by a woman living at a station where Patterson was staying. We have a tea in Australia called Billy Tea. The company promoted the song initially with the words written on paper and handed out with their product.
This is also a song you will hear Aussies singing at world sporting venues like the Olympics and the cricket, or world football cups. It can be quite stirring amongst the Aussies.
Shouting a great big 'Hi' from me too. Loved the backing singers too....John on fire as per usual. John has been writing his memorise which is great but I was hoping he would announce a new song lol. but it should be good reading...
John Farnham’s is stunning live and this was a wonderful reaction for we Aussies to watch today on a public holiday where we remember our ANZACS(Australian & New ZealandArmy Corp) and their sacrifice. Thx. 🇦🇺
@@deepcutsreactions7774 You need to react to Love's in Need - another of John's 'little known' performances - very much underrated, and brilliant as usual (with all his band members Backing Vocals joining in) it shows Johns' sense of humour at the beginning! Soooo many great performances to react to with JF
The 1989 grand final is still considered a classic. If you’re into sport, it’s worth checking out the highlights. Note that the VFL became the AFL in 1990, so you’ll probably see a lot of references to the AFL, which is effectively the same thing, just more recent.
Waltzing Matilda is amazing history and some Australians will almost cry when they hear it out of pride. Amazing song and so is the Star Spangled Banner. Australia and America the 2 countries that I know of who do cry out of pride.
This is a classic song, originally written by a famous poet by the name of Banjo Paterson, in 1895. He is on our $10 bank note. The terminology therefore is old school. The song was composed 30 years later by Christina Macpherson. We even have a sports team called the Matildas (Australian women's soccor team). This song brings us so much history and pride but has sad undertones too. It is sort of one of our many unofficial anthems. Thanks to Dr Kap for the video. She is a gem. Hope she is feeling better and smiling with you reviewing it Greg 🎉🎉
Lyrics - Once a jolly swagman (nomadic workers who travelled with their blankets rolled up, going from farm to farm looking for work) camped by a billabong (stagnant pool of water). Under the shade of a Coolibah (Eucalyptus which is what Koalas eat) tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy (tin can used to heat water over a fire) boiled "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda (means to go on a track, carrying a swag) with me" Down came a jumbuck (male sheep) to drink at that billabong Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker (tucker means food) bag ( which therefore translates to a bag to store food) "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Down came the squatter mounted on his thorough-bred (a squatter claimed the land without paying for it) Up came the troopers (horse mounted police) one, two, three "Whose that jolly jumbuck (sheep) you've got in your tucker bag? You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me "Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag? You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Up cut the swagging and jumped into the billabong (the swagman/worker ran into the water to escape being caught by the horse mounted police) "You'll never catch me alive" said he And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong (he drowned in the river rather than being caught alive) "Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?" Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong "You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
@@deepcutsreactions7774 They certainly were. Lest we forget. As for Waltzing Matilda, the story is about a swagman (wanderer)who roamed the bush looking for odd jobs when times were tough. Their matilda was their bedroll slung over their shoulder. Tucker bag was their food bag. (usually hessian bag). We call food tucker. Billabong is an oxbow lake. (part of a creek system) Jumbuck.is a sheep. Troopers are police. I have visited a couple times way out in western Queensland, a place called Combo Waterhole where one of our greatest poets, Banjo Patterson, was having a picnic with the family from Dagworth station under the coolibahs (trees) by a billabong, when he heard part of the story. Legend has it that he put all that he had heard together and wrote the ballad shortly after. the daughter of the family put it to music. Hope that explains a bit.
Remembers every military conflict from The Great War where Australian and New Zealand military were deployed. We must never forget the price our wonderful men, women, dogs, horses, mules, pigeons, dolphins and even mine detecting rats are courageously playing to keep our world safe. And we must never forget the role their families play and the anguish and worry they must face daily. Respect from me. 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
@@robynconway1286 Exactly. Lest we forget. I was trying to put Waltzing Matilda in context for Greg. We are a strong nation full of heroes and legends.
I like watching your channel because you seem like such a great bloke but sadly it's very low. If you could put the volume up just a little it would be awesome to watch.
The song is in English but a lot of terms of the old song probably more akin to someone living in the mid to late 1800's in Australia. Billabong is like a watering hole. Maybe a pond or small creek. Billy is some old small pot that some wandering job seeking man in the regional areas had with him to make a fire and boil himself a hot drink, probably tea in those times. Basically he grabbed a sheep or something and he must have been on some rich farmers land and that land owner brought some mounted police called troopers with him to arrest this squatter on his land. There quite a few other terms that hard to know for sure but guess he had the dead sheep in some tucker bag to cook later and rather than get arrested he tried to run for it and shot and fell into the creek and died there. That most of what I understood the song was about as I grew up to hear it as a kid. The VFL Grand Final is the biggest sporting event in Australia every year. It is the match to decide the premier team for the season and usually played in the last Saturday of September. VFL stood for the name of Victorian Football League. It expanded into a national competition so has been called Australian Football League or AFL from the next season onwards. The game itself is Australian Football or Aussie Rules footy to those of us that grew up playing it and watching it. I really enjoyed this no nonsense pre game entertainment to a Grand Final back in this era. I never needed some hyped up musical event before the sport I want to watch as the sport itself was why I was watching. So a national anthem or song everyone knew that stripped down like this is all that needed. Sadly most seasons now they think they need to have some international known act and try to have some mini-concert before the game which is the last thing I really interested in before the biggest football game of the season. Last year it was some tired old act like Kiss performing. Give me Waltzing Matilda over that every time.
I saw a movie from New Zealand that had some scenes of Australian football. I was sooo confused but it seemed pretty neat. Sure as hell wasn't soccer. I pretty much just watch college football as it's played in the U.S.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 If it is a New Zealand movie it almost certainly was not Australian football. Whatever was in the movie was probably Rugby that New Zealanders play. Two states in Australia do tend to play Rugby rather than Aussie rules footy so those two states and New Zealand have that sport in common. But the only football invented in Australia is Australian football which is not soccer or rugby that invented by other nations. In fact rugby as a sport is more like your American football than Australian football because in Rugby and Gridiron it seems both those sports throw a ball around to each other.
@@shaundgb7367 I went ahead a tracked it down and it actually was an Australian movie. As in this case, I often watch movies due to an actor I like. Rose McIver is from New Zealand but the movie was set in Australia. It was called "Blinder".
@@deepcutsreactions7774 Thanks for the follow up Greg. Never actually heard of that movie but just watched the trailer and indeed, yes it is actually the sport of Australian rules football in it for some local footy club. Funny I never heard about it. I see it has Jack Thompson in it which he was in an actual 1970's cult hit football movie called The Club so funny to see him turn up in a movie like this about four decades later. Most of the other actors in it, I not know their name but looks like seen some of them before on tv.
@@shaundgb7367 I watched the movie via my public library and they don't have the big blockbusters. Rose McIver starred in a cult classic "I Zombie" tv show and is currently playing in the U.S. version of "Ghosts".
Very appropriate for us on ANZAC Day ❤❤ @DrKap is fantastic. She loves remastering our iconic music and does such a fantastic job 👏 ❤ Thank you 😊
It seems like all the Aussie music lovers know each other. It seems real tight and that's pretty cool.
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Dr Kap is a female. She’s a lovely talented lady 😊. She’s excellent at restoring vids 😊
We are taught this song in grade school and what it means. Dr Kap is a woman. For ANZAC Day you needed to play, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle. This was a great next choice. Thank you.
Some translations:
Swagman = An intinerant traveller who roamed the land looking for work.
Billabong = oxbow lake.
Coolibah tree = a kind of eucalyptus tree.
Billy = a kind of can with a lid used to boil water and heat things over a fire.
Matilda = a Swagman's swag i.e. his bedroll and other possesions rolled in a bundle.
Waltzing = walking from place to place.
Waltzing Matilda = carrying your matilda from place to place.
Jumbuck = a sheep.
Tucker = Food.
Squatter = Landowner, farmer.
Trooper = Police.
A squatter is a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. A billabong is derived from the Aboriginal language meaning a pond or pool of water left following a river receding
@@bernbee1679 Squatter didn’t mean that when this was written. At that time it meant Landowner, Grazier, Farmer.
An oxbow lake is the water left over when a river recedes or change course. i.e. a billabong.
According to Wikipedia: “In the 19th century, the British government claimed to own all of Australia and tried to control land ownership. Wealthy farmers of livestock claimed land for themselves and thus were known as squatters”
Tucker bag. A bag for carrying food
Love this song and performance. Thanks heaps for the reaction, you gotta check out John covering “wind beneath my wings” live at the 1986 Grand Final. Bette Midler made the song famous but it was originally written for John Farnham
Kappy is well known among Aussie Music Lovers ❤❤ She does an amazing job cleaning up lots of older videos of our legends
Jumbuck = sheep, squatter = landowner. John Farnham is the GOAT, a legend. He can sing anything.❤
Billie ... tin can holds water to boil on fire
Billabong .. lagoon, pond, waterhole
Swag .. bed wrap and belongings
Swagman ... drifter labourer slings his swag or "matilda" holding his belongings over his back and goes Waltzing (to travel on foot/walk to find work especially shearing sheep)
Apparently the song by Banjo Patterson sprung out of a great shearers strike. Unionised workers retaliating to Non-unionised workers in 1891.
There is a lot of mystery to the beautiful song as to the symbolism and what happened to the swaggy in the end.
I love this song .. i believe the melody was inspired by a woman living at a station where Patterson was staying. We have a tea in Australia called Billy Tea. The company promoted the song initially with the words written on paper and handed out with their product.
This is also a song you will hear Aussies singing at world sporting venues like the Olympics and the cricket, or world football cups. It can be quite stirring amongst the Aussies.
I feel that Dr Kap deserves an award for her contribution to Australian music. Thank you Kappie
Thanks so much for the shoutout my friend appreciate it very much ❤❤
Shouting a great big 'Hi' from me too. Loved the backing singers too....John on fire as per usual. John has been writing his memorise which is great but I was hoping he would announce a new song lol. but it should be good reading...
John Farnham’s is stunning live and this was a wonderful reaction for we Aussies to watch today on a public holiday where we remember our ANZACS(Australian & New ZealandArmy Corp) and their sacrifice. Thx. 🇦🇺
John and his BV's at ther acapella best. Have you seen him do Loves in Need (Stevie Wonder cover) with his entire band live. in 1990? I
Not yet.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 You need to react to Love's in Need - another of John's 'little known' performances - very much underrated, and brilliant as usual (with all his band members Backing Vocals joining in) it shows Johns' sense of humour at the beginning! Soooo many great performances to react to with JF
The 1989 grand final is still considered a classic.
If you’re into sport, it’s worth checking out the highlights. Note that the VFL became the AFL in 1990, so you’ll probably see a lot of references to the AFL, which is effectively the same thing, just more recent.
Waltzing Matilda is amazing history and some Australians will almost cry when they hear it out of pride. Amazing song and so is the Star Spangled Banner. Australia and America the 2 countries that I know of who do cry out of pride.
Loved it. John's voice is superb -when is it not !!!
Great mullet that only Australians have truely mastered!
You mate, need to be made an honourary Aussie. You are one very cool cat
Thanks for this...so many memories here. Sounding awesome....loved his backing singers beautiful harmoines.
VFL is Victorian football league. Now it's called AFL , Australian football league.
This is a classic song, originally written by a famous poet by the name of Banjo Paterson, in 1895. He is on our $10 bank note. The terminology therefore is old school. The song was composed 30 years later by Christina Macpherson.
We even have a sports team called the Matildas (Australian women's soccor team).
This song brings us so much history and pride but has sad undertones too. It is sort of one of our many unofficial anthems.
Thanks to Dr Kap for the video. She is a gem. Hope she is feeling better and smiling with you reviewing it Greg 🎉🎉
This is so appropriate for Anzac Day. Lest we forget.
Lyrics -
Once a jolly swagman (nomadic workers who travelled with their blankets rolled up, going from farm to farm looking for work) camped by a billabong (stagnant pool of water).
Under the shade of a Coolibah (Eucalyptus which is what Koalas eat)
tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy (tin can used to heat water over a fire) boiled
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda (means to go on a track, carrying a swag) with me"
Down came a jumbuck (male sheep) to drink at that billabong
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker (tucker means food) bag ( which therefore translates to a bag to store food)
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
Down came the squatter mounted on his thorough-bred (a squatter claimed the land without paying for it)
Up came the troopers (horse mounted police) one, two, three
"Whose that jolly jumbuck (sheep) you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me
"Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
Up cut the swagging and jumped into the billabong (the swagman/worker ran into the water to escape being caught by the horse mounted police)
"You'll never catch me alive" said he
And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong (he drowned in the river rather than being caught alive)
"Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me
And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me
And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me"
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You may not know but today is a special day, ANZAC DAY, when we commemorate our soldiers who fought in WW1. Very appropriate. Thank you.
Oh how cool. I didn't realize I was doing such an apt song. Those boys from WWI are the stuff of legends.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 They certainly were. Lest we forget. As for Waltzing Matilda, the story is about a swagman (wanderer)who roamed the bush looking for odd jobs when times were tough. Their matilda was their bedroll slung over their shoulder. Tucker bag was their food bag. (usually hessian bag). We call food tucker. Billabong is an oxbow lake. (part of a creek system) Jumbuck.is a sheep. Troopers are police. I have visited a couple times way out in western Queensland, a place called Combo Waterhole where one of our greatest poets, Banjo Patterson, was having a picnic with the family from Dagworth station under the coolibahs (trees) by a billabong, when he heard part of the story. Legend has it that he put all that he had heard together and wrote the ballad shortly after. the daughter of the family put it to music. Hope that explains a bit.
@@fender282 Thanks.
Remembers every military conflict from The Great War where Australian and New Zealand military were deployed. We must never forget the price our wonderful men, women, dogs, horses, mules, pigeons, dolphins and even mine detecting rats are courageously playing to keep our world safe. And we must never forget the role their families play and the anguish and worry they must face daily. Respect from me.
🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
@@robynconway1286 Exactly. Lest we forget. I was trying to put Waltzing Matilda in context for Greg. We are a strong nation full of heroes and legends.
Our Doc KAP is a wonderful woman! Love ya Doc!
❤ you too
Thanks for playing that. I hadnt seen it, even though i barrack for one of those teams. I was probably too nervous to watch!
I like watching your channel because you seem like such a great bloke but sadly it's very low. If you could put the volume up just a little it would be awesome to watch.
Love it thanks 🎉
The song is in English but a lot of terms of the old song probably more akin to someone living in the mid to late 1800's in Australia. Billabong is like a watering hole. Maybe a pond or small creek. Billy is some old small pot that some wandering job seeking man in the regional areas had with him to make a fire and boil himself a hot drink, probably tea in those times. Basically he grabbed a sheep or something and he must have been on some rich farmers land and that land owner brought some mounted police called troopers with him to arrest this squatter on his land. There quite a few other terms that hard to know for sure but guess he had the dead sheep in some tucker bag to cook later and rather than get arrested he tried to run for it and shot and fell into the creek and died there. That most of what I understood the song was about as I grew up to hear it as a kid.
The VFL Grand Final is the biggest sporting event in Australia every year. It is the match to decide the premier team for the season and usually played in the last Saturday of September. VFL stood for the name of Victorian Football League. It expanded into a national competition so has been called Australian Football League or AFL from the next season onwards. The game itself is Australian Football or Aussie Rules footy to those of us that grew up playing it and watching it.
I really enjoyed this no nonsense pre game entertainment to a Grand Final back in this era.
I never needed some hyped up musical event before the sport I want to watch as the sport itself was why I was watching. So a national anthem or song everyone knew that stripped down like this is all that needed. Sadly most seasons now they think they need to have some international known act and try to have some mini-concert before the game which is the last thing I really interested in before the biggest football game of the season. Last year it was some tired old act like Kiss performing. Give me Waltzing Matilda over that every time.
I saw a movie from New Zealand that had some scenes of Australian football. I was sooo confused but it seemed pretty neat. Sure as hell wasn't soccer. I pretty much just watch college football as it's played in the U.S.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 If it is a New Zealand movie it almost certainly was not Australian football. Whatever was in the movie was probably Rugby that New Zealanders play. Two states in Australia do tend to play Rugby rather than Aussie rules footy so those two states and New Zealand have that sport in common. But the only football invented in Australia is Australian football which is not soccer or rugby that invented by other nations. In fact rugby as a sport is more like your American football than Australian football because in Rugby and Gridiron it seems both those sports throw a ball around to each other.
@@shaundgb7367 I went ahead a tracked it down and it actually was an Australian movie. As in this case, I often watch movies due to an actor I like. Rose McIver is from New Zealand but the movie was set in Australia. It was called "Blinder".
@@deepcutsreactions7774 Thanks for the follow up Greg. Never actually heard of that movie but just watched the trailer and indeed, yes it is actually the sport of Australian rules football in it for some local footy club. Funny I never heard about it. I see it has Jack Thompson in it which he was in an actual 1970's cult hit football movie called The Club so funny to see him turn up in a movie like this about four decades later. Most of the other actors in it, I not know their name but looks like seen some of them before on tv.
@@shaundgb7367 I watched the movie via my public library and they don't have the big blockbusters. Rose McIver starred in a cult classic "I Zombie" tv show and is currently playing in the U.S. version of "Ghosts".
link to original video ua-cam.com/video/lsO-f3ulZ8M/v-deo.html
the most beautifull national anthem.
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Who needs backup music? Beautiful!
Non Aussie’s would miss the meaning of every second word in this song ! So much local slang. Have a look at some of John’s other songs
You have no idea what he is saying do you? This is a pretty poor rendition.
Best ever version of this was by John Williamson at the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final