Listen to the Original Waltzing Matilda What Waltzing Matilda Originally Sounded Like

The original version of Waltzing Matilda is quite different from what is sung today.

Click on the image to hear Waltzing Matilda with its original words and music.

Banjo Paterson said in a radio interview in 1936, "Miss Macpherson used to play a little Scottish tune on a zither, and I put words to it and called it 'Waltzing Matilda'."

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