Waltzing Matilda - Johnny Cash video free download

joel hollier

Being an Aussie myself I have to say... THIS ROX!!

Tonia van der Sluis

Hij zingt het mooi maar dat geklets had ie achterwege mogen laten van mij.

Norman Fraser

Thanks big fella ,,, from Australia,,, lol,,, jumbuck = sheep.

Tango Down

Love Johnny Cash but Tom Waits does it more justice.

Wyatt Collins

Even Johnny Cash does a version of this song.

agent3857

This is "ok", but the definitive version is by John Williamson.

JODY CRAWFORD

Happy Australia Day!

kitsus mitsus

Song for the day. "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia".The title is Australian slang for travelling by foot with one's goods (waltzing, derived from the German auf der Walz) 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 owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker for the theft, the worker commits suicide by drowning himself in the nearby watering hole, after which his ghost haunts the site.The original lyrics were written in 1895 by poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson. 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 Centre in Winton, Queensland. In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organized the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance.The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow.] In 2008, this recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the Sounds of Australia registry in the National Film and Sound Archive which says that there are more recordings of "Waltzing Matilda" than any other Australian song. The Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote the words to "Waltzing Matilda" in January 1895 while staying at a bush station in western Queensland, the Dagworth Homestead near Winton owned by the Macpherson family. The words were written to a tune recited by 21 year-old Christina Macpherson, one of the family members at the station. Macpherson had been taken with "The Craigielee March" which she heard played by a military band while attending the Warrnambool steeplechase horse racing in Victoria during 1894, and played it back by ear at Dagworth. Paterson decided that the music would be a good piece to set lyrics to, and produced the original version during the rest of his stay at the station and in WintonGlossaryThe lyrics contain many distinctively Australian English words, some now rarely used outside of the song. These include:waltzing - derived from the German term auf der Walz, which means to travel while working as a craftsman and learn new techniques from other masters before returning home after three years and one day, a custom which is still in use today among carpenters.Matilda - a romantic term for a swagman's bundle. See below, "Waltzing Matilda".Waltzing Matilda - from the above terms, "to waltz Matilda" is to travel with a swag, that is, with all one's belongings on one's back wrapped in a blanket or clothswagman - a man who travelled the country looking for work. The swagman's "swag" was a bed roll that bundled his belongings.billabong - an oxbow lake (a cut-off river bend) found alongside a meandering river.coolibah tree- a kind of eucalyptus tree which grows near billabongs.jumbuck - a sheep.billy - a can for boiling water in, usually 2--3 pints.tucker bag - a bag for carrying food ("tucker").troopers - policemenSquatter - Australian squatters started as early farmers who raised livestock on land which they did not legally have the right to use; in many cases they later gained legal use of the land even though they did not have full possession, and became wealthy thanks to these large land holdings. The squatter's claim to the land may be as uncertain as the swagman's claim to the jumbuck.

geo2301able

You gotta love Johnny Cash...But leave Waltzing Matilda to Slim Dusty and Judy Dunham!

wie beliebt

One of the best versions I've ever heard.

Ryan B

amazing <33333333333

whistle robin

He does have a good voice for this song in spite of the translation errors. I wonder why he didn't sing the rest of it ? He was always singing for the 'underdog'. Maybe someone in production decided not to end it on the sad note...My favorite is still Slim Dusty's version in front of the house in his latter years...(see orthodoxquaker). Bob & Hector's go is great on the accordions too.

Bill Starr

Wonderful life rendition. Does anybody know when this was filmed? Thank You

Norbury53

LOL This MUST have been used as the template for YouTube's caption option...It's hard to imagine how he could have been more wrong here - but at least he tried.and he sang the song very well...

Dem0D1ck

It's a shame he didn't finish the song.

mryfntn

I have loved this song for over 30 years. Johnny Cash' baritone captures everything from this song that is so memorable from the 1959 On The Beach original film version solo performance. I don't believe that the original solo artist was ever identified -- but JCash does him honor. 

poitty1978

A billy is a where you boil your water

Manuel Sandez

Well... Good. But the squatter and the rest of the story is missing.

Cygnus75

This is sheer perfection. 

David Hall

THAT WAS THE SHIT! well done, J.C. rip.

Helmut Lotti

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