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  • I remember singing this song when I was young in Summer Camp for our Camp Show, I really enjoyed singing it, and anthemwise, it really is a deadheat between this and Advance Australia Fair, oh, we also sang Kookabura, that's a fun song too, and I somewhat memorized all the words to "I Want You" by Savage Garden

  • I saw Tina on Young Talent Time back in the very early 80's when she was about 14 years old. She sang Imagine, & from that moment I knew she was the real deal...

  • Only 5 weeks and i'll be leaving god forsaken England and seeking my fortune in the paradise that is australia on a years working holiday, I cant wait, theres nothing left in the UK for me. 1.9.2011 my story begins, hope australia is gonna be good to me! =)

  • omg awful ruined by that bing bing bing update!!!

  • I vividly remember hearing this (live?) on U.S. television and being completely blown away by it. I was just telling my brother about it last night and decided to search for it one more time. Thank you so much!

  • I am an American with lots of Aussie friends. Aussies are awesome people - great at the arts, sports, hard-working, and go-getters. They are also very loyal and know what true friendship and being a 'mate' really is. We have a lot to learn from Aussies.

  • @kuboman Superb kuboman. Are you an older person? I am, 60. You just described most Americans, too, only back in the 1950s and early 1960s. The biggest sin way too many Americans had back then was racism. In fact, come to think of it, there was a bit of rekindling of that hard-working spirit in the USA starting in 1983 for quite a few years. But I cannot wait to visit the LDU after I retire. "LDU?" ...... = Land Down Under!!

  • j'adore trop tina

  • I'm an American and love the Aussies - this lady can sing a great song! Awesome

  • Oh shes so spunky miss Tina love the hair. Seriously great version too xx

  • Why can't NZ have beautiful folk songs like this?

  • I love Tina, beautiful voice !!!

  • Beautiful version of the classic Aussie folk tale. It is about a the Austrailian equivalent of a "rugged individualist" who captures a wild sheep and when confronted by a "Squatter", means the same thing in the States, who lays claim to the wild sheep which is no more valid than the land he is squatting on, the Swagman jumps into the "slew" or river backwater, rather than be hung for stealing by the local powers that be. This is an American story, except it is Austrailian. G'day AUSSIES!

  • she's hot

  • This is a great Australian song. In fact, for many years we have tried to make 'Waltzing Matilda' our national anthem. Its actually about a man who steals a sheep and then kills himself when law enforcement try to arrest him. Yes, it's a bit random, but our nation originated as the island of convicts - I guess we love it so much because, even though thats how our country began, we have come so far today. It's more of a reflection... All Aussies hold this song close to our hearts :)

  • wonderfully sung!

  • Thomas Bulch arranged James Barrs effort for brass band in 1893 with the alternate spelling, Craigielee. There is also speculation about the relationship it bears to The Bold Fusilier, a song dated, in some sources, back to the eighteenth century.

  • The song came into being as part of the after-dinner musical entertainment at Dagworth. Based on musical and documentary evidence, the tune which Christina Macpherson heard played by the band at the Warrnambool steeplechase was almost certainly the Scottish song Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea. Robert Tannahill wrote the words in 1805 and in 1818 James Barr set them to music that, in turn, was possibly based on the old melody of Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself .

  • lol tina tu es trop sublime

  • i got the scakes :P

  • The WWL damn near ruined it w/ their fuggin 28/58.

  • beautifully sung...

  • Saw Tina Arena in Concert as opening support for Bee Gees Wembley 1998 amaszing voice for a small lady

    Beautiful to boot to love this version of the song

  • this is a ballad not a crooning song . it needs to be sung with swing and pace not like some lovesick lament

  • i disagree, it's gorgeous. i think this song fits as a tribute for heath ledger.

  • It is kind of a sad song, it being about a poor man desperate enough to steal a sheep and die trying.

  • @Wargoat6

    It was inspired by a "Moritat".

    These are songs about a crime or cruel encounters trafitionally sung by those wo were "auf der Walz" (Waltzing")

    In Germany it is still a costum for some craftsmen when they end their apprenticeship to go on the waltz ie travelling around and do jobs only for food and bed.

    They even usually use names of their girlfriends for their bags.

    So "Mathilda" is not a funny name for a bag.

  • An Aussie explains it beautifully and skillfully. Name something like gigolo

  • OK, for all you non-Aussies, what is a swagman? A jumbuck? A billabong? How many of you knew the answers: Swagman = hobo or tramp. Jumbuck = sheep. Billabong = small pool or pond. of course, I may be wrong about the jumbuck. I know it is an animal, good for eating.

  • you are right

  • thanks

  • Jumbuck= a large difficult to shear sheep, not a tame sheep (Implies that the sheep was not "owned" by the squatter or regularly shorn, thus not able to be stolen by the swagman

    Swagman is not exactly a hobo or tramp..it is a man who travelled looking for work..a tramp does not look for work necessarilly (swag= bed roll that bundled his belongings)

  • Billabong:- a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high

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  • Tina Arena and a capella choir-

    Lovely, really beautiful, actually. I could listen to this charming version for evermore.

    Well done, and thank you demoplot for posting!

    d.

  • I think all you haters are messed up.. I'm American AND Australian and I love BOTH of my countries and would die for either no questions asked. Listening to you people is sad at best.

    I LOVE this version of this song and wanted a copy but it's not available. :( Hands down the best of the best. Anyone know where I can get a real copy of them singing this?

  • It ia lovely rendition of a rather unique song, symbolic of a rather unique people. Long live Australia and all that word implies in terms of its history and culture.

  • I heard this live. Sent chills up the spine then and still does.

  • Ditto! I mean abou the chill!

  • Was this in the Aussie Open?

  • 1995 Open. Agassi v. Sampras. My brother were watching this thing and went silent when they started singing. Couldn't explain this to anyone. Thanks to youtube and the person who posted this, friends now know what we were talking about. Amazing performance and setting.

  • I remember watching the final and Ms. Arena's rendition and being struck by her singing and the uniqueness of this charming folk song that somehow seems to sum of much of the Australian character.

  • So you're telling me that the Australian spirit is stealing then becoming an hero rather than be caught ?

    Accurate historical description of the australian settlers, but I doubt it's very flattering anyhow...

  • australia= the best country in the world....................ameri­ca= worst country in the world

  • australia = best country in the world. America: worst country.

    greataussiekid: world's biggest wanker.

  • didnt you just agree with him?

  • australia is a great country and better than america in my veiw than america deal with it people are entitled to there opinion but you are are just unreasnoble

  • You do realise that Australia is rotting from the core and becoming what America is right? I mean it's inevitable.

  • i think every country is to some extinct but australia will keep there pride but we will never be the same

  • i dont think you have any idea what you are talking about at all!!!

  • Oh okay well pay close attention to your culture AND your laws during the next 2-3 years then come back to me and say that again.

  • hmmmmm dont you think if i am australian i would have a better idea of my countries culture and laws than an american....

    and what laws exactly do you forsee australia passing? hmmmm... a little bit pretentious to predict the future, and claim that a country will "rot to its core" in "2-3 years"

    go to school you are boring

  • I'm sure there is bigger

  • @suecilla I am an American, and you may be right about Australia. I hope to visit it for a couple of weeks some time in the next 5 years or so. And America has definitely gone downhill since I was born in 1951, when I would argue IT was best nation in the world. But USA is definitely not the worst country in the world, what with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela around, nations that have very little freedom. Why did you say that?

  • Are you gonna take that?

  • no way

  • Love the song!

  • THIS should so be our national anthem!

  • I'm not Australian... but I totally agree! You can sing it powerful or you can sing it jolly. Great one!

  • I've been telling all my friends the same thing ever since I've heard the song. This song is awesome :D

  • Yes it should - but too morons voted for Advance australia fair which is a pompous mediocre dirge. Aussies overseas sing Waltzing Matilda when they are homesick.

  • All English-speaking countries have truly awefull anthems if it's any consolation. It seems there was some rule that said they all had to sound like Anglican Hymns.

  • it's not their hymn.

    once, in 1976, it was played at the Olympic games, but only becaise Australia had no offical hymn then.

    before they played god save the queen/king.

    it is however, easily the most popular australian folk song.

    maybe only "down under" could challenge that status, if oyu would regard that as a folk song.

  • This should have been Australia's national anthem...

  • this song is so different when u hear it when u overseas brings to tears miss melb T_T

  • Beatiful song with a beautiful voice... what more can i say??? :-)

  • just beautiful. Tina your the best

  • This is really pretty :)

  • the RRR's in her singing comes natural to her and any aussie knows this. shes been doin it ever since she started. i love this performance! im so proud to be aussie!

  • what american accent? fair dinkum. its tina arena and her voice and accent hasn't changed since she was a kid on YTT. Anyone atacking her singing this probably can't sing themselves.

  • Mikefmale, get your ears checked! No further comment....

  • Just reading through the comments, can't believe people don't mind her thick American accent even though she's an Australian singing an Australian song!!! :-S I don't mind American accents, but they don't pretend to be Australian when they sing their national songs!!

  • Point taken..I am fascinated by national accents and have always wondered what people of other nations thought of an American accent. Most Americans enjoy a foreign accent, especially British and Australian. They like a French accent, but just won't admit it.

  • I like some American accents and not others. There's so many different ones! :o) My point with this is that it's an Australian anthem sung by an Australian singer ... with an American accent. It's a bit sad really. If you type "Waltzing Matilda" into YouTube and watch the second video - the one with the Australian Wallaby Rugby team you'll hear it with a real Aussie accent. It's the adopted anthem of the national rugby team. Stirring stuff for me to listen to as an Aussie abroad. :-)

  • I would not want America the Beautiful sung in a foreign accent so I understand. I live in the midwest of the Us and our accent is used by all the announcers, news, sports ect.

    I have never met an Aussie that was not overly friendly and smiling, great envoys for your country, I have visited Europe many times as well as the far east, I would say it's about time I visited Australia. My goal is to take in a game of Australian rules football, a superb game.

  • Well I'm a rugby player/fan (Waltzing Matilda is the rugby anthem), but you're right, AFL is good. I am planning to come to Colorado and Boston to meet some American mates I met in Ireland. Can't wait to see your country too. And you guys are always welcome in Australia too. As for the accents, I wouldn't mind it sung with a yank accent if she was actually American. But she is Australian, singing this beautiful Aussie anthem with a feigned American accent. I find that a bit sad.

  • Make that "Wallaby Waltzing Matilda" in YouTube for a nice version with a singer who is not afraid to belt it out in their natural accent! ;-)

  • We have accents??

  • Love this song but what are :

    jolly swagman

    billy boiled

    jumbuck

    squatter

    billabong

    swaggy

    tucker bag

    Anyone at all this would be greatful

  • Jolly is jolly like santa claus. a swagman is a camper. A billy is a camping teapot. A jumbuck is a baby sheep. A squatter is a policeman. A Billabong is a small pond in the bush. A Swaggy is short for swagman. Tucker is dinner or lunch. So a tuckerbag is a bag where you keep it. :)

  • Aha...a mystery since I sang this song in grade school is solved! Thanks.

  • Sorry - mistake. A squatter is the guy who legally owned the land (and the jumbuck). It's a story about the "original" white Australians rebelling against the English colonial rule (the troopers and sqatter). Original in inverted commas for obvious reasons.

  • Stunning. Simply stunning.

  • UNBELIEVABLE Tina ..............

  • Absolutely the best!

    Thanks heaps ;)

  • Been waiting 10 years for this ... and worth every bit of it. Thank you for posting. Ms. Arena does equal justice to the beauty found in Banjo's words. Long live the individual spirit in us all. May it flourish, connected.

  • I agree completely with you, "Gravity." I knew I had heard a version of this wonderful song sung by a pretty young Australian -- Tina Arena is Australian, isn't she? -- at some point in my past, and I am now sure that this was it. Literally brought tears to my eyes, even tho' I am not Australian and have never been there. Song is just a great ballad!!

  • Thank you SO much for posting this! I've been wanting to hear this rendition again since, well, 1995, when I first heard it. I love it!

  • What a wonderful rendition!! and much emotion!!

    I already heard the melody of this music by the radio broadcast at my childhood.

    Recently, I got a chance to know this music name by the video of "Jessica Roemischer".

    It's really an excellent piece!. [ Jessica Roemischer-Piano-Shenandoah/Wa­ltzing Matilda this ]

    She has also sung the same words of this music on the piano.

  • Wheres Tina Arena gone ????

    Beautiful voice Gorgeous

    Sawe her at Wembley as Warm up act before the Bee gees

  • Je ne m'en lasse pas! C'est vraiment la meilleur version que j'ai pu entendre! Bravo!

  • I love Tina Arena!

  • WOW! What a fabulous version of Waltzing Matilda! Tina Arena is the best!

  • There is NO better !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • J'adore cette mélodie... de plus cette version est particulièrement touchante! Merci, Tina et les autres!

  • This is a GREAT version for this song, the harmonies are killer! But I have to say, Personally, I liked the John Williamson acoustic show version just slightly better, but that clip has been mysteriously yanked from youtube... hmmm...

  • I remember watching this over and over on my vcr and I fell in love with Tina Arena. I've ordered several of her cd's online and they are all excellent. She has a great voice.

  • when was this recorded? <3 Tina Arena

  • It was the entertainment preceeding the men's final between Andre Aggasi and Pete Samprass at the 1995 Australian Open.  Aggasi went on to win that year.

  • I remember watching this live; it was the first I ever heard of Arena, and I was in awe of her voice.

  • Best version of WM ive heard. 8)

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