Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited ’til his billy boiled
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me<\/p>\n(CHORUS) Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me
And he sang as he watched and waited ’til his billy boiled
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me<\/p>\n
Down came a jumbuck to dri-ink at that billabong
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
And he sang as he stuffed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me<\/p>\n
(CHORUS)<\/p>\n
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred
Up rode the troopers, one, two, three
“Where’s that jolly jumbuck you’ve got in your tucker-bag?”
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me<\/p>\n
(CHORUS)<\/p>\n
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into that billabong
“You’ll never take me alive!”, said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pa-ass by that billabong
You’ll come a-waltzing matilda with me<\/p>\n
(CHORUS)<\/i><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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This is Andrew “The Banjo” Barton Paterson, the author of Waltzing Matilda. He was born on February 17, 1864, at Narambla, New South Wales, not far from Orange, the son of a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, who had arrived in Australia in the early 1850s. <\/p>\n