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Origins of Christina Macpherson tune
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Origins
> Origins
of Christina Macpherson tune
‘The Bold Fusilier’The most significant folksong collector in Australia, John Meredith, who, with Hugh Anderson wrote Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women Who Sang Them (Ure Smith, 1967), boldly claimed that:
John Meredith collected a performance of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ from Arthur Buchanan in the 1950s (listen to audio). This led to his view that a version of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ existed before the Macpherson/Paterson collaboration. |
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