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Thread #57959   Message #1218915
Posted By: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
03-Jul-04 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Waltzing Matilda
Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
...and G'day to you, Bob.
What I was trying to say, in my stumbling way, was that someone (and it might have beeb the Revd.Olly Marton) collected a whole song about 'Who'll be a Soldier?' circa 1910, but thought that all except the first verse was obscene. Hence, he preserved only the melody plus verse one. Pete Coe, I believe, built on that to create his song.