My neighbor was from America but he moved to Australia for work. I went to work for him when he moved back, and I remember him playing this song. I never really had time to listen to it but I always remembered it. So I finally said I am going to listen to it, and it has now become one of my favorite songs. Like anybody cares but I thought I would share that.
I suppose it makes some people cry because it's simply a beautifully unpretentious piece of music. It is played throughout the film "On the Beach" about the futility of nuclear war and is so compelling.
if what i read is correct the Australian Army Men sang a version of this song while recruitment and Marching to war.. Matilda also refered to their sleeping bags they carried on their backs to war. waltzing the matilda meant as they marched the bag (aka matilda) moved like it were waltzing. it's a very fond song for the Aussies and i love it too. it's a song of brotherhood and comradery.
Este es el himno más universal que conozco. Hay otros que hablan de guerras y héroes, y de un pueblo que apoya a estas y estos; pero Waltzing Matilda revindica al espíritu libre. Es un auténtico himno de la gente.
First visited Oz in '91 and a little bit of me stayed behind. Along with North West Passage, the only other song that brings a tear to the eye. A real beaut!
Who can forget this song being sung at Cardiff Arms Park when the Wallabies toured in 1967 to defeat Wales for the first time and defeated the Barbarians.
I love everything about Australia. You guys are the nicest bunch of people I've ever talked to no matter where I've met you. Can't hold anywhere else with such high regard. And both the anthems (Advance Australia Fair and this) are very beautiful. I'd love to move to Australia at somepoint down the line for sure.
Ahh, you'd say bland but mind being British our anthem is God Save the Queen which is very uninteresting and very outdated aha. Waltzing Matilda is the better one of the two though :-P
Cyclopgamingfreaks It's awkward for me, I'm Scottish so GSTQ is our official anthem with the much better (in my opinion) Flower of Scotland adopted as our unofficial anthem. I guess I dislike GSTQ for some of the anti-Scottish parts in it. The Welsh anthem is amazing if you've never heard that you 100% should give that a listen, I like the German one as well.
THANK YOU roosevelnut = As I TOO think that Waltzing Matilda is definitely "one of the moving anthems ever written"..... as we sang it in unison = 19 Aussies = to mi dying Da on his 92 birthday in the hospital..... where he passed just days later..... takin his ooooold outback "tucker bag" with him!!
i love this song. i'm a japanese, but every time i hear this song, i always want to come back to Australia. i miss the meat pies. i still call Australia home.
The last bit of this track comes from the night JW sang "Waltzing Matilda" at the Rugby World Cup in 2003, when the ARU tried to ban everyone from singing it. But they couldn't shut JW up ... neither could they stop the crowd!! Awesome version and awesome pics. Well done.
Im a Timorese and i love this song very much. This song made me thinking about my teachers from Xavier college Melbourne. I miss them. Love from East Timor.
AMAZING!! I love the story, I love the music, I love the voices. Sometimes, it makes me cry. If I were a country, this would be my anthem. For sure!! Regards from Spain.
That's right. On The Beach, thank you! That's the first time I remember hearing this song. It was in the 50's..... I saw it when it first came out. Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Anyway, it made me cry then and it still does....especially this rendition. This slower version is so beautiful. I think it's one of the most moving anthems ever written.
I dont know about the others but I pride myself in our heritage and history. Im proud to say the success and continued success of this country was born and bred from a British age. 1 000 000 Australian soldiers and nurses have died for the anthem and flag we proudly display today and I think it would be insulting and unnecessary to change it when we have so much to be proud of. The British didnt oppress us like they did the Americans, we had no reason to distance ourselves from our heritage.
I've got tears on my eyes for this beautifull song and pictures.. Tks. to you Australian beautiful people you are the best and you live in the best country. Regards from Italy Stefanino
As a foreigner....this ought to be the official national anthem. It is infinitely more memorable and well known than Advance Austraiia Fair. This is a really great version also.
This is such a beautiful song! I love rugby!My dad got me into it!I wonder why I ever thought it was boring! Walting Matilda! Im not from Australia but I've got relatives there!I love the accent!
As an American I admire the rebellliousness of this song and the refusal to submit to authority. I think we have alot in common with the Austrailians, wide open spaces, and being immigrants to a foreign, and unsettled frontier land. I think we're people of the same ilk, willing to leave everything in Europe behind to better our selves in lands of opportunity, and that spirit is something that I don't think anyone left in Europe has, and that's why we're better than them in everyway.
I love it, heard the aussies singing it before a rugby match long ago and I thought it was a joke song, as I got older I have deep respect for that song and the history of it and its much better than the USA copy which they sing now.
I dated an Aussie and I lived in an Antipeodian house, when I worked and lived in London in my 20s. I also worked with lots of Aussies, and for some reason the accent is easy for a Swede to adopt, people thought I was an Aussie lol
i went on rugby tour with school last summer to aus, of course we won every game being english. we stayed with host families of the fella's we played and i dont think we have ever had such a warm reception or great 3 weeks. it was just one big social event with the odd rugby match. we stayed with both ends of the socio-economic spectrum and everyone we met were warm and had that classic aussie wit. brilliant country brilliant people and thats from a pom
I love Australia. I lived in Mt. Isa, Queensland and Thirroul, NSW way back in 1971-1973. "Waltzing Matilda" is, probably, my third or fourth all-time favorite song. However, I do feel sorry for the sheep. The poor guy went down to get a drink of water and wound up in the swaggie's tucker bag and in the middle of a riot! LOL - Mike
most itunes versions of this are cheesy little kids songs. I believe this version has a true power behind it. Especially with the authentic Australian voice and the folk feel sung in a slow yet powerful tone. The best part is at the end where the crowd passionately joins in. I believe it symbolizes that all Aussies can join together to be part of something greater than themselves. As an American who studied abroad there I want to say I have the deepest respect for Australia and its people.
The song was written by Banjo Patterson in 1895 in outback Queensland, it was based on an old Celtic folk tune called "The Craigeelee", which itself may have been based on a number of earlier tunes from the late 1700's.
man....i sure do miss australia.... though i know when i'm older i'll go back to my country, i'm sure of it :) this song brings up so many memories of when i was a child, :')
all the while he is still singing about life as a drifter. Whilst he's singing away, the land owner happens upon him, followed by some lawmen, wanting to know about the freshly slaughtered sheep which happens to be his property. The vagabond, rather than be arrested and hanged as a thief, jumps into the water and drowns himself and it is said that his ghost may be heard singing about life as drifter when you pass by that billabong.
This song, even though it's about a theif, is a definate Australian anthem. No matter where you go in the world you know someone is an Aussie when they sing that song. And the best part of this rendition of the song is when the whole crowd is singing the chorus, that's how us Australian's do it. Nobody will ever match that!
Abraham Morrison late to the party but the Desert Rats were the British 7th Armoured Division who held Tobruk. The Aussies were integral to the defence of Tobruk however
I love Australia,yes I am Wog,but still and always will love this country.because Australia gave me family,house,freedom, and all the best for my daughter Angela,which is born in Australia and I like SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA
When I was 21 I thought, in Boston as a student, that I would try rugby football. Well, I am 55 now, and I am still beguiled, enthralled, enraged, and delighted by the game. I have visited two world cups. It is, it seems that maybe I am overstating it, simply, the greatest team sport on the planet earth.
My neighbor was from America but he moved to Australia for work. I went to work for him when he moved back, and I remember him playing this song. I never really had time to listen to it but I always remembered it. So I finally said I am going to listen to it, and it has now become one of my favorite songs. Like anybody cares but I thought I would share that.
I am Tongan, born in the USA but I bleed GREEN AND GOLD!! Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
OI OI OI
Malie!
I remember when I was a young lad, my dad explained this song to me, as I was fascinated by it. Fantastic stuff. Cheers Australia, from an Englishman.
I suppose it makes some people cry because it's simply a beautifully unpretentious piece of music. It is played throughout the film "On the Beach" about the futility of nuclear war and is so compelling.
In the early 2000s, the Aussies were so impressed by the talent of Ireland's young Brian O'Driscoll that they sang Waltzing O'Driscoll during a game
ALL STAND FOR THE TRUE AUSSIE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!! 😝😝😝🤘🏻🤘🏻🇦🇺🇦🇺
+WatermelonWolf
All stand for the global national anthem.
Yes
Along with Men at Works „Down Under“!!
learnt this when i was 8 and it has been with me for 54 years! Beautiful song. give it back to the Aussies you Yanks.
i'm swiss and we sang this song at school two years ago. everytime i listen to it reminds me at that time. i just love it
if what i read is correct the Australian Army Men sang a version of this song while recruitment and Marching to war.. Matilda also refered to their sleeping bags they carried on their backs to war. waltzing the matilda meant as they marched the bag (aka matilda) moved like it were waltzing. it's a very fond song for the Aussies and i love it too. it's a song of brotherhood and comradery.
Este es el himno más universal que conozco.
Hay otros que hablan de guerras y héroes, y de un pueblo que apoya a estas y estos; pero Waltzing Matilda revindica al espíritu libre.
Es un auténtico himno de la gente.
First visited Oz in '91 and a little bit of me stayed behind.
Along with North West Passage, the only other song that brings a tear to the eye.
A real beaut!
An australian icon. Australia is a great place. I have lived there my whole life and have travelled the world. No place is better than Australia.
As a South African it is sad to to see Australian rugby in this state. Aussies need to bring this back.
Love this. Wish the Aussies still sung it at the rugby.
Why don't they?
@@Tip_Top got banned by irb
@@mitchell6757 thanks! Why did they ban it? I can Google but prefer to wait a year for an answer.
Not long now 😂
They do, all the Aussie living in London. I worked with Aussie, Kiwis and Saffas during the Rugby World Cup in 1999, it was a blast
Who can forget this song being sung at Cardiff Arms Park when the Wallabies toured in 1967 to defeat Wales for the first time and defeated the Barbarians.
I love everything about Australia. You guys are the nicest bunch of people I've ever talked to no matter where I've met you. Can't hold anywhere else with such high regard. And both the anthems (Advance Australia Fair and this) are very beautiful. I'd love to move to Australia at somepoint down the line for sure.
I've always found Advance Australia Fair very bland and uninteresting
Ahh, you'd say bland but mind being British our anthem is God Save the Queen which is very uninteresting and very outdated aha. Waltzing Matilda is the better one of the two though :-P
William McIntosh I actually like God save the queen better than AAF, but I think that Japan and France have the best national anthems
Cyclopgamingfreaks It's awkward for me, I'm Scottish so GSTQ is our official anthem with the much better (in my opinion) Flower of Scotland adopted as our unofficial anthem. I guess I dislike GSTQ for some of the anti-Scottish parts in it. The Welsh anthem is amazing if you've never heard that you 100% should give that a listen, I like the German one as well.
William McIntosh Yeah, the land of our fathers is a great national anthem
THANK YOU roosevelnut = As I TOO think that Waltzing Matilda is definitely "one of the moving anthems ever written"..... as we sang it in unison = 19 Aussies = to mi dying Da on his 92 birthday in the hospital..... where he passed just days later..... takin his ooooold outback "tucker bag" with him!!
i love this song.
i'm a japanese, but every time i hear this song, i always want to come back to Australia.
i miss the meat pies.
i still call Australia home.
I Love that everytime this song is played at the sports games everyone joins in!!! Its a fantastic song
The last bit of this track comes from the night JW sang "Waltzing Matilda" at the Rugby World Cup in 2003, when the ARU tried to ban everyone from singing it. But they couldn't shut JW up ... neither could they stop the crowd!!
Awesome version and awesome pics. Well done.
Just awesome.. Still after all this time. Ozi Ozi Ozi hell yeah!!
Im a Timorese and i love this song very much. This song made me thinking about my teachers from Xavier college Melbourne. I miss them.
Love from East Timor.
AMAZING!! I love the story, I love the music, I love the voices. Sometimes, it makes me cry. If I were a country, this would be my anthem. For sure!! Regards from Spain.
That's right. On The Beach, thank you! That's the first time I remember hearing this song. It was in the 50's..... I saw it when it first came out. Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Anyway, it made me cry then and it still does....especially this rendition. This slower version is so beautiful. I think it's one of the most moving anthems ever written.
That's probably how the world will end too which is the worst part....
soo beautiful. touches the deepest emotions for some reason
It was a pleasure to be a year in your wonderful country and see all this friendly people. Australia 4 ever. Greeting from Germany.
This is a bloody fantastic song; will seek my way back to Australia at some point in my life !
I dont know about the others but I pride myself in our heritage and history. Im proud to say the success and continued success of this country was born and bred from a British age. 1 000 000 Australian soldiers and nurses have died for the anthem and flag we proudly display today and I think it would be insulting and unnecessary to change it when we have so much to be proud of. The British didnt oppress us like they did the Americans, we had no reason to distance ourselves from our heritage.
I've got tears on my eyes for this beautifull song and pictures..
Tks. to you Australian beautiful people you are the best and you live in the best country.
Regards from Italy
Stefanino
Cheers mate I have lived in Australia for 34 years and loving it.
j'adore cette chanson, et je pense toujours aux wallabies en l'écoutant, vive l'australie
I'm from britain and i must it must be one of the best songs ever quite a bit better than what we've got!
God, I love 3:14 when you hear like 80,000 people singing! Gives you a chill!
As a foreigner....this ought to be the official national anthem. It is infinitely more memorable and well known than Advance Austraiia Fair. This is a really great version also.
I love Australia!! I wish I was born there, I've just finished uni and hoping to come settle there. Lots of love from a poor ol' Pom.
Waltzing Matilda is the best.
Nice song, I remebered my 4 years in Australia!!
This is such a beautiful song!
I love rugby!My dad got me into it!I wonder why I ever thought it was boring!
Walting Matilda!
Im not from Australia but I've got relatives there!I love the accent!
I love this song. Greetings to Austrailia from Scotland
As an American I admire the rebellliousness of this song and the refusal to submit to authority. I think we have alot in common with the Austrailians, wide open spaces, and being immigrants to a foreign, and unsettled frontier land. I think we're people of the same ilk, willing to leave everything in Europe behind to better our selves in lands of opportunity, and that spirit is something that I don't think anyone left in Europe has, and that's why we're better than them in everyway.
The thing I love the most about this song is that mostly everybody in the world knows it. I live in Alaska and remember singing this in kindergarten
This is one of my favorite songs to play on the violin. I usually play it faster than this and then slow it down on the last time through the chorus.
when i hear this song i wanna go back to that big country with its relaxed people and the amazing nature and wildlife..
I don't think many people realise, but this is actually an incredibly beautiful song. Damn hard to find a recording as good as this one.
I will never forget that! It was one of the first Rugby-Games I saw - and at last, if all the people sang that song! It was full of emotions!
GREAT song!! Best anthem in the world!!
It is one of the greatest songs in the world not just Australia, the emotion in the performance even is amazing. :)
I love it, heard the aussies singing it before a rugby match long ago and I thought it was a joke song, as I got older I have deep respect for that song and the history of it and its much better than the USA copy which they sing now.
Masterful production.
love this song
LOVE this song!
My first piano lessons come back to memory....
what a beautiful song, i love it. greetings to australia from germany :-)
i miss my home, i am halfway across the world in london this brings memories from 6 years ago when i was 3rd grade to 1st grade
I'm a proud Kiwi, but most of my family comes from Australia. This song reminds me of my grandad. A great Aussie man. ANZACs forever!
I love that song since I heard it the first time during a german lesson
Best bloody song Ive heard. God Bless
beauty
respect from Canada. We are always taught how Aussies and Canucks fought side by side in World War One, I hope they teach you the same.
i love this song. i wish nz had a cool song like this :)
i am Aust. citizenship,wog and I like this song and I am proud to be an Aussie. Chears mates
have to admit thats a good version. The best ver, I ever heard.
I'm from Slovenia and all I can say is : OZZY OZZY OZZY!!!
I dated an Aussie and I lived in an Antipeodian house, when I worked and lived in London in my 20s. I also worked with lots of Aussies, and for some reason the accent is easy for a Swede to adopt, people thought I was an Aussie lol
Simply wonderful.
i went on rugby tour with school last summer to aus, of course we won every game being english. we stayed with host families of the fella's we played and i dont think we have ever had such a warm reception or great 3 weeks. it was just one big social event with the odd rugby match. we stayed with both ends of the socio-economic spectrum and everyone we met were warm and had that classic aussie wit. brilliant country brilliant people and thats from a pom
I love Australia. I lived in Mt. Isa, Queensland and Thirroul, NSW way back in 1971-1973. "Waltzing Matilda" is, probably, my third or fourth all-time favorite song. However, I do feel sorry for the sheep. The poor guy went down to get a drink of water and wound up in the swaggie's tucker bag and in the middle of a riot! LOL - Mike
Love this song!
Love it!!
George Vreeland Hill
For me Waltzing Matilda ist real national anthem of Australia.
I love this song.
most itunes versions of this are cheesy little kids songs. I believe this version has a true power behind it. Especially with the authentic Australian voice and the folk feel sung in a slow yet powerful tone. The best part is at the end where the crowd passionately joins in. I believe it symbolizes that all Aussies can join together to be part of something greater than themselves.
As an American who studied abroad there I want to say I have the deepest respect for Australia and its people.
Walzing Matilda is my favorite song!
LONG LIVE WALTZING MATILDA!!! The unofficial national anthem of Australia!!!
Love the England vs Australia games in the rugby you make one of the best game to watch next to your games vs the all blacks
i love being Australian and i love my country. it cant get much better then that. . . great song
The song was written by Banjo Patterson in 1895 in outback Queensland, it was based on an old Celtic folk tune called "The Craigeelee", which itself may have been based on a number of earlier tunes from the late 1700's.
great vid, great song. greetz to down under from upperside Rotterdam the Netherlands.
Aussies rulez
WOW!! Beautiful !
Game played in heaven mate, hope it takes off in the states.
Just brilliant. Thanx a lot :)
man....i sure do miss australia.... though i know when i'm older i'll go back to my country, i'm sure of it :)
this song brings up so many memories of when i was a child, :')
Holy Sh** this song is on a musical stuffed kuala bear my dad brought back from Australia when he was in the US Navy, love this melody.
This song finally has 1 million views!
I remember singing this song in school some 40 years ago. Yes, in the USA
no way der musical genius at its best
My favorite song ever
i am spanish and i love this song and i love Australia & wallabies too!!! GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA¡¡¡
beautiful ending on Corrie tonight.
great use of this great song
waltzing matilda was like ned kelly a man who stood up against oppression remember always wat thay did
all the while he is still singing about life as a drifter. Whilst he's singing away, the land owner happens upon him, followed by some lawmen, wanting to know about the freshly slaughtered sheep which happens to be his property. The vagabond, rather than be arrested and hanged as a thief, jumps into the water and drowns himself and it is said that his ghost may be heard singing about life as drifter when you pass by that billabong.
About life and youth everlasting...which it isn't. Beautiful
This song, even though it's about a theif, is a definate Australian anthem. No matter where you go in the world you know someone is an Aussie when they sing that song.
And the best part of this rendition of the song is when the whole crowd is singing the chorus, that's how us Australian's do it. Nobody will ever match that!
Aussie culture's rocks!!! I just wish to do a trip in this country!!
i might be a pom but i love all of the aussies as i will never forget my great uncle's brothers at vimy ridge and gallipoli
absolutely sensational
i never get sick of this song but nothing beats Slim Dustys version
Exactly
I love this song
The Desert Rats were Aussies and their stubborn defence of Tobruk was key in WWII.
Abraham Morrison late to the party but the Desert Rats were the British 7th Armoured Division who held Tobruk.
The Aussies were integral to the defence of Tobruk however
Aussie Aussie Aussie.... Oi Oi Oi
TroystonB one song youve only got one song
I love Australia,yes I am Wog,but still and always will love this country.because Australia gave me family,house,freedom, and all the best for my daughter Angela,which is born in Australia and I like SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA
When I was 21 I thought, in Boston as a student, that I would try rugby football. Well, I am 55 now, and I am still beguiled, enthralled, enraged, and delighted by the game. I have visited two world cups.
It is, it seems that maybe I am overstating it, simply, the greatest team sport on the planet earth.
matilda is a person the swagman creates in mind to keep him comapny as he sets out on his lonely journey across the outback.
this is my jam