Waltzing Matilda

Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
From: GUEST,T-boy
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 07:40 AM

I think Guest Rodney meant the ENGLISH civil war.

Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 06:41 AM

G'day Rodney,

As we have it, Waltzing Matilda is a (~)1905 arrangement, by Marie Cowan, of Christina MacPherson's 1895 recollection of a tune she heard in 1893 - an arrangement of an 1805 setting of one of Scots poet Robert Tannahill's poems: Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea.

We know that the tune was a favourite of the wife of early Australian Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1810 - 1822) ... so the tune might well have been well known to Scots in the US. However, I can't place any specific American Civil War songs to the tune (which is rather more sprightly than the common form used for Waltzing Matilda). I certainly wouldn't be all that surprised if Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea was sung somewhere ... by some Scot ... at some time in the American Civil War.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
From:
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 06:11 AM

HEre are some of the threads, including the one Hrothgar mentions

Original Waltzing MAtilda

Banjo PAtterson - Waltzing Matilda

Bonnie Woods of Craigilea - Waltzing MAtilda

Rochester Recruiting Sergeant - New Song uses same tune

Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
From: Hrothgar
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 05:56 AM

Try this old thread. With a bi of luck sombody will make a blue clicky thing out of this lot.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=3857#20312

Subject: RE: Waltzing Matilda
From: Banjer
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 04:47 AM

I had not heard that, and can think of no CW song that uses the tune. Can anyone tell us when Matilda was written?

Subject: Waltzing Matilda
From: GUEST,Rodney
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 04:41 AM

Is it true that the tune to Waltzing Matilda was originally the tune of a Civl War song?