[pct-l] Clarification once twice sold

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

Doctor Bob Where Are You!!!

I'd like to hear from Dr. Bob on this subject!!  Our own Dr. Bob thru hiker
is a recently retired music professor (PhD therefore DR. Bob.)
Myself a Songwriter/entertainer leaning toward folk and sometimes billed as
performing contraversial childrens music.

I asked Dr bob a question about "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and its
origin while we were re-caching Gate #3.
We discussed it for more than an hour, and more every time our paths
crossed on the trail this year.
In all my years in music I have never met a person more knowledgable and
clear on so many types of music.

Hey Dr. Bob!!  Waltzing Matilda!!!

(Oh, you're right about a Matilda being a poor man's napsack.)

Warner Springs Monty or
Monty Tam Songwriter/Performer, remedial Folk and contraversial children's
music, temporarily in retirement.



> [Original Message]
> From: <Lonetrail@aol.com>
> To: <awitham@postnetburney.net>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 11/3/2005 6:39:52 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Clarification once twice sold
>
> I can understand the confusion but which is the correct version, there 
seems 
> to be even more. check the  
> website.http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html This is
what I  refered to. 
>  
> Lonetrail
>  
> A "Matilda" was the name given to the pack of an Australian Bushman or  
> Swagman. To "Waltz Matilda" was to carry your pack around the bush.
50.000  
> soldiers of _Australia_
(http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html#)  
> died at Gallipoli in a stupid and pointless  campaign, which was a lot
for a 
> small country like Australia. About the only  thing the achieved was a
belated 
> recognition that Australia was "growing up",  she was becoming a nation
in her 
> own right.
>  
>  (http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/matilda.html)  
>  
> I'm not sure where you get your references, but you are a little off  the
> mark.   If you are talking about the old Australian folk song -  it is
> 'Waltzing Matilda' - and there is no reference anywhere in the song to  a
bed
> roll.  The song mentions his 'billy' (a billy can or kettle) and  his
'tucker
> bag' (bag of food) - but nothing about a bed roll.  (Nothing  about
keeping
> the weight down, either!!!)
>
> 'Waltzing Matilda' refers to  a tramp or hobo (a 'Matilda') walking (or
> waltzing) along the highway.   The 'story' behind the song is basically
the
> story of a hobo, who on being  arrested for stealing a sheep chooses to
drown
> himself in a pool rather than  be taken to jail.  "You'll come a waltzing
> with me" refers to the  sheep's owner 'waltzing' the hobo off to jail.
> ... 
> Every April, a march is held on ANZAC DAY to commemorate the Gallipoli  
> landings during the _first World War_ 
> (http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/ww1.html) , and the dead of
the other wars. Australia  takes it so seriously 
> that the pubs are closed, the only day in the year this  happens. Like
all 
> memorial parades it is both moving and yet somewhat pointless  and
pathetic. This 
> song was written after observing one such parade 
> I'm not sure where you get your references, but you are a little off  the
> mark.   If you are talking about the old Australian folk song -  it is
> 'Waltzing Matilda' - and there is no reference anywhere in the song to  a
bed
> roll.  The song mentions his 'billy' (a billy can or kettle) and  his
'tucker
> bag' (bag of food) - but nothing about a bed roll.  (Nothing  about
keeping
> the weight down, either!!!)
>
> 'Waltzing Matilda' refers to  a tramp or hobo (a 'Matilda') walking (or
> waltzing) along the highway.   The 'story' behind the song is basically
the
> story of a hobo, who on being  arrested for stealing a sheep chooses to
drown
> himself in a pool rather than  be taken to jail.  "You'll come a waltzing
> with me" refers to the  sheep's owner 'waltzing' the hobo off to jail.
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