From today's Scotland on Sunday..."James Barr, from Ayrshire, is credited with writing the tune Thou Bonnie Wood o' Craigielea, which Australian musician Andrew "Banjo" Paterson adapted and set the words for Waltzing Matilda to in 1895."

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Penicillin-telephone-TV-we-know.6562471.jp