G'day Rich Joy,

I posted the Australian Exile of Erin some years back ... not by the author of the Irish/American one ... but clearly modelled on it - probably by someone from the south west of Ireland (from the place references).

The furphy about Who'll go a'soldiering ... is dead in the water - the real source is clearly (well documented and accounted by a variety of non-friendly sources!) as described by Paterson & Christina McPherson.

The mythical "Marlborough" song only appears decades after the real Waltzing Matilda ... probably a WW I parody by either Aussies or Poms ... remembered and back-shifted by the children and grandchildren of ANZACs.

Regards,

Bob Bolton