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Queensland version
Buderim variantThe Buderim tune was collected from an oral source by John Manifold in 1955 and discussed in Who Wrote the Ballads: Notes on Australian Folksong. Manifold’s informant was John O’Neill from Buderim in south-east Queensland, thus lending the names ‘buderim’ or ‘O’Neill’ to this variant of the Queensland version. This tune seems to have been widely disseminated not long after ‘Waltzing Matilda’ had become well known in the Winton district. O’Neill remembered his father singing this version when he was a boy under ten years old, some time between 1912 and 1917. In a letter of 7 August 1956, O’Neill wrote to Harry Pearce speculating on how the song had been transmitted to his father:
After his contact with Manifold, O’Neill also handed down the tune to a Mrs Joy Durst, who played in the Melbourne Billabong Band in 1956 (Harry Pearce Papers, NLA MS2765 Box 13). From there it passed into the hands of other folk revival bands and took on a new performance life (listen to audio). |
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