WALTZING MY MATILDA

WALTZING MY MATILDA:: This song has been clamed by some to be a Vietnam-era anti war song written by a Scottish-Australian singer songwriter named Eric Bogle. He wrote it in 1971. It has been claimed by some that Erick bogle used the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 as a metaphor for the Vietnam war. However others claim, and rightly so that it is a song to honor the many Australians who died in the war. One commenter from Australia made the following comment: "Australia was not involved at all in the landings at suvla bay-Bogle stated he used that because it was more well known than ANZAC cove, and that it was better for rhyming. The landings at Suvla bay were performed by the British and were unopposed. Second uve said 55,000 aussies died at gallipoli. Around 55,000 aussies died alltogther in ww1, 8,000 died at Gallipoli". To make this video I started with WW I and WW II and passed through Korea and Vietnam and on to the entrance into Iraq. You'll keep hearing the recuring lyrics "THERE'LL BE NO MORE WALTZING MATILDA FOR ME". WALTZING here means walking, dancing, traveling, doing things together with your mate so there is a lot of double meaning here. The soldier lost his legs and many people have lost their loved ones and their mates to sickness, or to passing on. In either case for the person who lost limbs or a loved one there'll be no more waltzing for that person for a while. So as you go through the video keep in mine the australian word Waltizing. Matilda means the duffle bag or a wife or girl friend. The title of the song is THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA sung by Priscilla Herdman. My Judy is in the Vietnam section with her MASH 4077 tee shirt on. She is also layered in the first photo with the soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

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[estalker1647]

Thanks for a good video - and this old retired American Major has many good memories of the Diggers I served with all over the world. May their come a day when the old men in their board rooms stop sending young men off to die among angry strangers for anything less than national survival.

[rainydog]

@estalker1647 Thanks for stopping by. This video is really a metaphor dealing with the parallels of Soldiers losing their body parts and their buddies, meaningless wars, and then the other parallel is a spouse losing his wife to a terminal illness and there will be no waltzing Matilda for the soldier nor for me. My Matilda, my wife, passed away this past April 16. Life goes on and I'm putting the pieces back together again just like Sleepless in Seattle.

Bill

[Rhuadhan1]

@rainydog

Read and understood. It's so hard to lose the love of your life and than figure out how to go on, on your own. Life does go on, eventhough it may be hard at times, and putting the pieces together isn't the easiest thing to do, your Matilda will always be with you, every step of your way.

[rainydog]

@Rhuadhan1 Thanks for stopping by and thanks for those kind commons. I'm leaning forward. I now have a girl friend in Sweden, and I already proposed to her, and we should be married within a year. Life goes on, I'll always remember Judy, I'll miss her, but I'll let her go.

Bill

[edjew]

@halucination117 thamks for this version. May time help to heal your wounds and losses.

[rainydog]

@edjew Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words.

Bill

[01skulldragon13]

I have no words...just many thanks.

[tracyb934]

gnarkillicksass......unfortuna­tely I think, the taliban have already started to invade our country....... under the guise of refugees !

[estalker1647]

@rainydog - my condolences on your loss...but if there's one thing I've learned, you pick up the pieces and move on...Good Luck, fair winds and following seas.

[harryfaber]

@SvenBolin I think with age your perceptions change. My first boss was at the relief of Kohima. I asked if he saw any atrocities. He said 'just one. Scottish soldiers shooting wounded Japanese'. Who the heroes and criminals are will depend where you were standing at that time. My boss was Royal Engineers, but fought as an infantryman in Burma.

[terminaljim]

@SuperCanuck01 Thankyou Mate, you guys were part of the British insanity also!!