waltzing matilda

waltzing matilda with some wallaby pics

[@keemaj9a]

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.

[@yumaboy18]

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.

[@padraig6200]

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

[@vitsette]

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

[@FlightSimXYZ]

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.

[@andriesgrundlingh488]

As a South African it is sad to to see Australian rugby in this state. Aussies need to bring this back.

[@rubencombi]

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.

[@samhutton5655]

Love this. Wish the Aussies still sung it at the rugby.

[@Tip_Top]

Why don't they?

[@mitchell6757]

@@Tip_Top got banned by irb

[@Tip_Top]

@@mitchell6757 thanks! Why did they ban it? I can Google but prefer to wait a year for an answer.

[@mightywhite1]

Not long now 😂

[@thetarantella69]

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

[@hamo087]

I Love that everytime this song is played at the sports games everyone joins in!!! Its a fantastic song

[@BillWmeteors]

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!

[@thedavidtan]

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.

[@watermelonwolf8674]

ALL STAND FOR THE TRUE AUSSIE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!! 😝😝😝🤘🏻🤘🏻🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@EddieHypemanHearn]

+WatermelonWolf All stand for the global national anthem.

[@eggman903]

Yes

[@AK-os9pv]

Along with Men at Works „Down Under“!!

[@RRFC2MUCH]

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.

[@Cyclopgamingfreaks]

I've always found Advance Australia Fair very bland and uninteresting

[@RRFC2MUCH]

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]

William McIntosh I actually like God save the queen better than AAF, but I think that Japan and France have the best national anthems

[@RRFC2MUCH]

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.

[@Cyclopgamingfreaks]

William McIntosh Yeah, the land of our fathers is a great national anthem

[@elmagodelmaryahoo]

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!!

[@roseanne74]

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.

[@australianproud]

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.

[@thingme9941]

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.

[@retromultisportsfootrugbyb4680]

j'adore cette chanson, et je pense toujours aux wallabies en l'écoutant, vive l'australie

[@15Billman]

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.

[@kngiht84]

This is a bloody fantastic song; will seek my way back to Australia at some point in my life !

[@Steportovenere]

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

[@andrewskinner8560]

Cheers mate I have lived in Australia for 34 years and loving it.

[@MisterColbar]

It was a pleasure to be a year in your wonderful country and see all this friendly people. Australia 4 ever. Greeting from Germany.

[@AvatarYoda]

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.

[@mrchristof]

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

[@nix09ags]

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

[@MrOdsplut]

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.

[@webaroos]

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.

[@maylea7]

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.

[@sunonthewindow]

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!

[@cadc82]

Nice song, I remebered my 4 years in Australia!!

[@nimocolors]

soo beautiful. touches the deepest emotions for some reason

[@Prinsessenboontje]

GREAT song!! Best anthem in the world!!

[@paulsheehan9050]

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.

[@rad92]

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.

[@izzo887]

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.

[@darkangelw8472]

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

[@bubzbeautycrap]

Walzing Matilda is my favorite song!

[@TheManFromAustralia]

Best bloody song Ive heard. God Bless

[@oxellabellaxo]

i love being Australian and i love my country. it cant get much better then that. . . great song

[@brantlarson421]

Masterful production.

[@Salvus967]

the British blood, spread across the planet and there, in each place nested and became thier own Nation. Each Nation grew thier own pride and sang thier own songs, but let us never forget we all are brothers. Not always were we just, not always were we right, but we are, and will always be strong! Our great tribe will forever be remembered on this planet. The Germans, the Scandanivians, the Celts are all our bretheren, and our footprints will always remain.

[@yaknbo]

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.

[@Basoflakes]

I get to meet many folks from Australia living in Hawaii, and was suprised to hear their knowledge about our Civil War, sports teams and just general American facts. I had to admit that I know Canberra is the Capital and you have six States and two territories, but, other than that, all I know about Australia is from the movies 'Australia', 'Breaker Morant' and 'Gallipoli' - sad, but true.

[@arrycat]

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!

[@AspieAndy2012]

This song finally has 1 million views!

[@bochalsfriend]

I love this song. Greetings to Austrailia from Scotland

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Love this song! Love it!! George Vreeland Hill

[@hl2kill]

The 1st Marine Division (USA) made this song their battle theme. This shows the influence of this song.

[@pejgorazde]

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

[@jeffreysetapak]

LONG LIVE WALTZING MATILDA!!! The unofficial national anthem of Australia!!!

[@Seduceroftrolls]

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

[@RedwoodTheElf]

"No one is to mistreat the Abo's in any way whatsoever...if anybody's watching!" (Monty Python's "Three Bruces" skit)

[@MrOregona230]

I watched the film "on the beach" and cant stop humming this song

[@masomase]

John Williamson is singing. He is the one who sings 'True Blue'. He also goes round to the rugby and sings Waltzing Matilda

[@zessulive]

I'm a POM as you Aussies like to say, but I love all things Australian. Love this song.

[@1212jnjn12]

I luv this tune , definitely more memorable than Advance Australia Fair. It should be the anthem , it would fit with the offbeat Aussie Attitude Cheers from Canada. Chillypete

[@megalania62]

Stadium Australia, Sydney 15th July 2000 World record rugby crowd of 109874...the greatest Bledisloe Cup of all time 39-35 to the All Blacks

[@xtdman345]

i think this is the best version of this song its sung by a true aussie and its sung buy the telestra statium which means its sung by a lot of aussie

[@51423massi9351423]

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, :')

[@ignorantpom]

UK, NZ, AU, CA - All pretty swell places IMHO. Would happily live in either.

[@ThePattycake1313]

have to admit thats a good version. The best ver, I ever heard.

[@van4stan91]

ronnie drew.....the pogues.....thats wat i was getting at....classic song....

[@Waywind420]

It's been a rough 16 years since this was uploaded 😆

[@GalacticGengar337]

best song eva!!! im Australian and proud to be Australian!!!

[@marti1171]

John Williamson is singing this song. Another great song by John Williamson is "Flower on the Water"

[@CuthbertNibbles]

LOVE this song!

[@abrahammorrison6374]

The Desert Rats were Aussies and their stubborn defence of Tobruk was key in WWII.

[@paddy1389]

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

[@Batko10]

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

[@TroystonB]

Aussie Aussie Aussie.... Oi Oi Oi

[@danbest2418]

TroystonB one song youve only got one song

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Great video. Thank you. George Vreeland Hill

[@schusterlehrling]

Well, the "Walz" is actually a German custom for craftsman, and they still call their bagys by the name of their girlfreind sometimes... Also, sad songs about a crime, called "Moritat" were very popular in Germany, like "Mack the Knife" by Brecht and Weill. Paterson was inluenced by German immigrants and thought he could do a sad song for Australia. So, in parts u r actually right ;-))

[@DoccEff]

what a beautiful song, i love it. greetings to australia from germany :-)

[@FarHowling]

I love that song since I heard it the first time during a german lesson

[@jannelahdenpera]

Finnish version: "reppuni rakkain, taakkani armain, tanssitkos valssin Matildani mun..." Great song!

[@vvvS4NDR0vvv]

I come from Germany, but i love this Song.

[@zebedeethecat]

I had a toy koala when I was little that played Waltzing Matilda when you pressed her foot. I loved her so much, I cried so hard when her batteries ran out :(

[@david167796]

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

[@sweatpatch123]

i wish john williamson would play waltzing matilda at the wallaby games again

[@torstvillinger]

Sir(s): If I may, at this Date and Time, state here, "Hurrah, in the Year of the Tiger!"

[@magilla808]

It's true. I'm a rabbit, and I love it.

[@JonnoD00]

beautiful ending on Corrie tonight. great use of this great song

[@Aussiechick111The]

i will be singing this when i see the Australians come out at the London olympics

[@TheEDBShow]

I think i was Australian in a past life, because for some reason i subconciously switch to an Australian accent every now and then, I wish i could live there for a few months. America is my home, but that doesn't mean Australia is an awesome country.

[@dwhittz7]

New Aussie National anthem, anyone?

[@sophiegrace9160]

3:14 I love my country.

[@2fstfru1]

Listening to this song, im feeling homesick. wish i still lived in Australia :(

[@stang1985]

the best version I ever heard was in the movie "The Coca-Cola Kid" and sung by a group called Conway's Carnival.

[@mehdan2]

has its roots in australia's colonial days with claim jumpers and sheep herders. so yea it is sentimental ...memories of the pioneers.

[@petebailey8177]

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Coming Forth To Carry Me Home, Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

[@nacaolusitana]

I'm not Australian, and I know that's not my place to speak up, but if I were to choose an anthem for my country between 'Advance Australia Fair' and 'Waltzing Matilda', I'd definitely choose the latter one... anyway, greetings from the UK to all Aussies out there

[@fallonhadley]

If the Aussies had chosen this as their anthem, they would have had the best one in the world.

[@AddictedtoTazers]

Borderlands the pre-sequel made me come here XD

[@AA-fh2gl]

How?

[@AddictedtoTazers]

+Ariel Goldman A side-mission that I assume was made with this in mind :)

[@n0denz]

Every time I hear this, I can't help but think it sounds like a Scottish ballad.

[@No1101]

she'll be right mate, we won't tell anyone.

[@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016]

Once a jolly swagman came passing by and was getting nostalgia for him U’ll come a waltzing Matilda with me And as he watched till his billy boiled

[@kazoora_bike_shop_service]

God bless Australia Regards from Poland

[@Degenerate_Gen]

there once was a jolly swagman camp'd by a billabong. under the shade of a cool-i-bah tree and he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled rememb'ring what happened in 2003.

[@emuireland90]

what's the point? it just means a shitload of paperwork to be exactly where we are now, but with a president instead of a prime minister.

[@lotsavodka]

I miss those old wallabies uniforms. Hell, I miss Aus

[@ignorantpom]

I'm not Australian but I agree completely: its a great song. I've lstened to your current anthem several times and can't even remember the tune.

[@xaheroforhireusx]

@thedavidtan actually its about a hobo who travels across the australian bush. you are right in regards to what a matilda is but waltzing is derived from the German term auf der Walz meaning to travel. to waltz matilda then would be to travel with a bag of sorts. the rest is a hobo sits down, sees a sheep, steals the sheep, is about to get arrested by the officers (1 2 3) and instead jumps into a watering hole and dies and his ghost haunts the place.