No disagreement from me either. I prefer the "Queensland" tune. Just as a comment re the importance of "Waltzing Matilda" during the First World War. It may well be as you've heard it McGrath, but my father and his friends came home singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" and "There's a Long, Long Trail A-winding". He didn't connect "Waltzing Matilda" with the War. His family had been here since 1848 but until the 1950s most people of English descent still called England "Home". Could it be that the idea of connecting Waltzing Matilda with the War was encouraged by Eric Bogle's song? My grandmother's diary suggests that the bands played all the popular songs of the day when the troops came home - and as they left for the War. Which isn't to say they DIDN'T "play Waltzing Matilda", just that I question it's importance at the time. Joy