Waltzing Matilda (Choral Version) - Sydney Conservatorium Chorale
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- The song has never been the officially recognised national anthem in Australia. Unofficially, however, it is often used in similar circumstances. The song was one of four included in a national plebiscite to choose Australia's national song held on 21 May 1977 by the Fraser Government to determine which song was preferred as Australia's national anthem. "Waltzing Matilda" received 28% of the vote compared with 43% for "Advance Australia Fair", 19% for "God Save the Queen" and 10% for "Song of Australia".
"Waltzing Matilda" was used at the 1974 World Cup and at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and, as a response to the New Zealand All Blacks haka, it has gained popularity as a sporting anthem for the Australia national rugby union team. It is also performed, along with "Advance Australia Fair", at the annual AFL Grand Final.
Matilda the Kangaroo was the mascot at the 1982 Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane, Queensland. Matilda was a cartoon kangaroo, who appeared as a 13-metre high (42 feet 8 inches) mechanical kangaroo at the opening ceremony, accompanied by Rolf Harris singing "Waltzing Matilda".
The Australian women's national soccer team is nicknamed the Matildas after this song.
It is used as the quick march of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and as the official song of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, commemorating the time the unit spent in Australia during the Second World War. Partly also used in the British Royal Tank Regiment's slow march of "Royal Tank Regiment", because an early British tank model was called "Matilda". - Hudba
I am Japanese high school student.
I went to Australia to study English.
My Australian teacher sang this song.
I love this song.
I'm Japanese high school student,too.
When I went to Australia to homestay,a host mother sang this song.
とても良い歌ですよね！
+der ahorn Yes! I like it!!
とても印象深くて聞くだけでオーストラリアの生活を思い出します♪
+E. gzitP
I see.
I understanded this song.
+Cameron Ryan
Hello.
I'm sorry. I have not yet heard the song.
I want to hear the song.
I went to the Brisbane.
Everyone is very kind!
I love Australia.
How about Japan?
I hope that it became your good memory.
+Cameron Ryan The Australian national anthem is very good!
My favorite lyrics is For we are Young and free and Advance Australia fair!
Yes, the beach of Brisbane was very splendid
I live in Osaka.
Please come to Japan again!
English is poor, and I'm sorry
I think it was 1984, my father bought me an electronic wristwatch from the Stempo brand. Waltzing Matilda was the alarm music for this watch. I've been searching the internet for this piece for years, and tonight I found it humming into the Google song finder. Turns out it was the Australian national anthem. Greetings to you too!
Back when I was a young US Navy Journalist, I had the chance to interview a real US Navy hero who was present at the battle of the Sunda Straight. His most clear memory of that battle was HMAS Perth charging into the guns of the enemy, flags flying brilliantly, every gun blazing... and every speaker on the ship exuberantly playing Waltzing Matilda. He lost a couple fingers in that battle when a shell fragment tore them off. But he fought on because he had that tune in his mind and he would not let those mates of his on Perth down.
Spence True What a story! And your name makes me believe that more.
LOL... blame my mom. She gave me that name 56 years ago. But yep, that's a true story. At least, that's the way he told it to me, and since he had the medals to back it up, I am pretty sure it was.
It's so moving reading this comment while having Waltzing Matilda playing in the background...I love Australia!
Thanks for sharing mate!! Bless you
"up jumped the swagman and jumped into the billabong, you'll never take me alive sang he".
i can only imagine such glory.
Wonderful Australia I love you
I am not Australian, but in primary school, we learned this song in music class. Now that I'm in high school, I take music class and I'm obsessed to listening to this song played on the keyboard. And after all these years, I still know this song by heart :).
This is Australia. Thanks. Good on ya mate. The arrangement played in the movie On The Beach is my favorite.
*_AFL, NRL, BBL. These leagues will always have a special place in my heart._*
I'm Filo and I love Australia and its people, culture and norms. I love classic songs like I am Australian, waltzing matilda and I still call Australia home. I RESPECT and CARE Australia as this is my second home.
When I was in elementary school, I remember watching an Australian drama called The Valley of Secrets😍 The more I listen to it now, the better I feel🥰
It's one of my favorites...very emotional for me to hear this song...I don't know why but moves me to the edge. Would give the world to here is in Australia, Perth to be exact.
long Live Australia And New Zealand !!
there you go! God Bless those Kiwi's
God Bless our Australian brothers!! Love UK :)
I love this song - even though I'm not an Aussie (I have Aussie cousins), and greatly love "I am Australian" as well.
I can't help but remember as a kid in 1963-4 that I learned a song that I looked forward to sing. Waltzing Matilda was a song in my music class. I didn't know it was Aussie's proud song then of course.
For every ausie born in the 50s and 60s this is our National anthem
I can not "thumbs up" this song OR this sanitized rendition enough! GOD Bless you Aussies. Just a Yank who KNOWS what a great ally you hve been. Australia WAS THE BEST R&R destination for American GIs during the Viet Nam War. GIs were JUDGED AND SPIT ON,.....IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!. THAT NEVER happen in Australia! GOD BLESS YOU! GOD BLESS YOU!
B.
it did happen here two unfortunately.... did you serve in vietnam ? if so thank you for your service
Brings tears to my eyes
The first sounds that came out of my first home built shortwave radio was this song.
I'm proud to be Australian
Always admired Australia. My dad served there during World War 2. Talked about returning there after the war to live. Mom said no. Hope to visit one day. 😷🦘🐨🇦🇺
You should be proud. Australia is a GREAT country! I hope I can visit one day.
I’d be to if i didn’t have their accent 😂
I am proud to have aussies friends :)
I’m an American, but if I had to move to another country, it would be Australia or New Zealand. Been a favorite song of mine since the first time I heard it. Gives me chills. I’ve also read a couple of books on the 9th Australian Division (Desert Rats) at Tobruk. Fair dinkem! (right spelling?)
Almost right mate. Fair dinkum. 😊
Really GREAT version! Thank you for uploading!
Gee's you guys are tough, when ever I get to have Leg of Lamb, I don't eat it often, but when I do, I go to my meat market and low and behold, Leg of Lamb product of Australia on the package! Had one last summer the first in more than 45 years, my mom was a good cook, as a single guy I am not much of one, it was on sale and boy was it good an friend of mine made it when I mentioned it it passing!- The song was in my head for a whole week! The swagman was just on a walkabout!
I work for an Aussie company, and my cousin lives there. Guess that makes me eligible to absolutely love this song and the country in general. :)
To me it's not at all about a thieving homeless person. This song resonate with me personally , Because it's more about a class struggle , it's about the rich oppressing the poor , and it's about the defiant indomitable human spirit , that rather choose noble death over bondage ! I love this song , and I am not even Australian.
Spot on!!!
You have given a very clear message.
you're half right a swagman is an itinerant worker that travels for work he isn't homeless as in destitute.
You sound like a self entitled commie
@@6226superhurricane thank you for teaching me something that I didn't know. Now I know what a swagman is.
Long Live Australia
Long Live the Australians
Australia is a beautiful country
From the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef
From Sydney to Melbourne to Brisbane to Canberra
God Bless the Commonwealth of Australia respect and love from the United States 🇺🇲🖤🇦🇺
We Americans are proud to call Australia our friend 🇺🇲❤️🇦🇺
God Bless Australia respect and love from your friends here in America 🇺🇲🖤🇦🇺
With Heart and Love with Honor I seek Justice for MATILDA!
Beautiful song!
This best Austral song I hearing everyday by judith durham voice because she song with beautiful voice
The words and lyrics had been changed to God Bless Australia in the early seventies when it was a candidate for our national anthem, I voted for it, unfortunately it didnt get the nod.
I sung this song in Primary School,Circa 1998, South Africa, must have been in Grade 3. I still recognise it, although I did not understand or comprehend the lyrics (the hobo who stole a sheep and commits suicide when the landowner and police try to take him to custody. Only to realise it was an Ausie classic.
Its a great song and words do not matter in anthems its the emotion that counts. For example the Foreign Legion march is about the Belgians not having any sausage and when the Welsh rugby team is winning they roar, not sing, Sosban Fach which is all about problems in a kitchen like the pan boiling over and the baby crying! BTW I think the most moving version of Waltzing Matilda is at the end of the movie "On the Beach"
Catchy. Reminds me of when we sang it in the third grade.
Loved singing this song in school.
Makes me think of"On the Beach"!
best version!
It is, I agree wholeheartedly Ivan and the reason is because this choir does what choirs are supposed to do....sound like ONE voice instead of a bunch of intermittent warblers! This is a fabulous version...IMhO!
I Would have preferred this to Australia's current national anthem.
Agree
God bless Australia you done brilliant also sorry for Gallipoli
That's ok, thanks for our country we have now. At least the Japanese or Chinese didn't get it.
@@beyondbackwater4933 Too right mate
A lovely song, totally associated with Australia... a 'noble' refrain
I am of Argentine, Italian origin, and I currently reside in Spain, but I love this song, i don´t n know why, my be another life i was aussi!
Muito bonito este hino. Parabéns!
The Song is the sound track of a famous movie :On the Beach
Ｉwas going australia.Ｉwas singing it .this song make me happy.
Proud to be a true aussie
One nuance about the song people either forget or are unaware of is that squatters were people who had staked their claim on land without legal consent. It was a big issue in late nineteenth century Australia. So while the swagman stole the sheep the idea of the sqatter being wronged in that sense is correct he was also perceived as being a bit suspect himself at the time of the songs writing. Collusion between squatters and local authoritities was often perceived as being corrupt by people of the time and thus the sympathy for the swagman. This dynamic also played into the stories about bushrangers and explains why they often had sympathy from the general public despite the vast majority of them being basic cut throat bandits.
The debates about the rights and wrongs of both sides can be pretty nuanced and complex and are best understood in the context of the time they happened. The legal position of the squatters was a complex one under British law as they were seen as having occupied crown land without owning title. It became a very hot political issue at the time and took a long while to be settled.
Australia OK :))) -greets from Warsaw.
Australia and Texas will always be free
"Texas will always be free" ahahahahah
How about the rest of us, Tex?
Should be the national anthem the one we have now is honestly tragic
Great
I was disappointed when Australia voted against Walzing Matilda being the national anthem!. no guts, no glory.
I'm Aussie i have to sing it in Cadets to Officer sometimes
2018 Australia Day was passed 1 hour ago.
Okay but why did I find this in an American Folk Songs playlist though
Godly to Australia from Sydney
Hello to you in Sydney, from Brisbane :)
Beautiful song
Jan pelgrom and wouter loos the first european immigrants from Europe
They came from holland 150 years before cook arrived in new holland.
If Australia one day becomes an independent country I so wish that this song becomes their national anthem
Lucas Ledin We are an independent country.
But we still have Queen !
@@jevinseo3790 federated in 1901, 1986 marked the last year that britain had any say whatsoever in the australian law. we choose to remain a commonwealth country just the same as we have the anzus partnership with usa.
I love the song and the way it's been put together, but I can understand why people dont want the national anthem story to be about a thieving homeless person.
The song is whimsical and anyhow what's the historical account of the settlement of the entire country. I'm not Australian, but admire it all the same.
*****- the swagman steals a 'jumbuck' from the 'squatter' (in other words steals a lamb from the farmer or land owner, on whos property the swagman is passing through) and thats why the 'troopies' come after him.
***** - those are some interestingly communist sentiments you have there my friend.
Would it be fair to say that you dont believe in the right of people to purchase and own land or livestock? If so your preconceptions are going to skew your understanding of this song. The overwhelming majority of people understand and accept the right of people to buy, sell and own things including land and animals. As such consider the following-
"...Jumbuck (noun) is an Australian English term for sheep..." (but being small enough to fit in his tuckerbag it was probably small, aka a lamb)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbuck
And also the following-
"...Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminantmammals typically kept as livestock..."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep
So in conclusion the most likely scenario is that landowner or farmer took issue with the swagmans theft of his property and alerted the police in order to have his property rights enforced. Instead of facing the charges, this idiot vagabond ran into the creek and drowned himself.
I hope this helps you understand, in context, what has happened in the song and I will be happy to accept you have your own political ideologies- just allow yourself to understand the general context before getting lead astray by them.
***** If your're ever in need take what it is you're lacking from my stores, so long as you never harm my dog 7 if she helps ya take sown a jumbuck I'd ask you give her a taste.
I think that it has more to do with the cultural importance to the nation than it does with the actual content of the song.
#swagman
Waltzing Matilda - LET'S MAKE IT THE OFFICIAL AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM! czcams.com/video/vQgZmSwRZ20/video.html
I think I broke the repeat button.
Wonderful tune! Don't bother about the words... the French sing La Marseillaise and its words are horrific. Still a great tune.
absolutely nothing wrong with the words. but you can't expect anyone to understand them if they are not australian.
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi
Now I know that toon sounds like Rod Stewarts Rythem of my Heart please comment
Yaaa
C'est mieux que la Marseillaise ; juste une question de goûts...
This is a nice+beautiful song - especially its chorus - , but maybe it is somewhat too "earthy" and folksy to ever become Australia's OFFICIAL national anthem.
;-;
Why dis no the national anthem?!
It's catchy (not exactly this version of it though XD) and has a great story behind it using Aussie slang!
Great story?
Yea, you probably wouldn't understand if you're not Australian. But if you are, listen agian
I am Aussie and I know what this song means, it's about a drifter/hobo who killed and ate a sheep then committed suicide before the police men could catch him.
Yea it is.... But listen to our current anthem. It's just is raving about how great Australia is but this song has history in it describing how hard life was for drifters back in the day.
True, personally I would love to see 'I Am Australian' as our anthem. Full of culture and history and has a catchy tune. :)
What song did the boys..no MEN of the Gallipoli march to? THAT should be a consideration. I'm a yank, so this is your business..but just so ya' know: I love this song! That being said..GOD BLESS YOU!!
B.
During World War 1 our boys marched to God Save the King which was our national anthem during the beginnning of the 20th century. In much later times it was decided to change it to something more patriotic to reflect our country.
Off to the Emu War :D
this should be my countrys anthem and they choose advance australia fair instead :(
A great song but surely Highway to Hell is the second Australian national anthem?
0:37
Killing a girl named Matilda and being acquitted, for me Australian is an OFFENSE, only in Italy do these things happen in Vercelli!
*_1. There was no Matilda_*
*_2. Stop insulting your own country_*
If an insult means killing a 2-year-old girl with heels and being acquitted it seems to me the country of BANANAS! Both parents acquitted!
*_Mate, Matilda means swagman. You're commenting on the wrong video._*
as a non australian, (Canadian) it's mind boggling you guys didn't use this as your anthem. The anthem you guys use now is terrible in every way imaginable. Should have kept GSTQ rather than the current one. Or change it to Waltzing Matilda.
The lyrics for our current national anthem were actually changed (without telling the public until it was too late),I'm not positive why, and now our current one does indeed sound trashy
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Australia will never,ever fall to the islam!
Australia to the Australians!!!
and the Indigenous Australians
Captain Badessa Walter.
U racist
TwistedSwivler Everyone in Australia is racist.
Rainer Marchionini オーストラリア国歌
What about the aboriginal peoples who have been appressed for the last 200 years?
#swagman