Waltzing Matilda is considered by many Australians ... In this segment, the story is told and many words are explained. Background song is sang by Slim Dusty.

Exactly why Collinson decided to record Waltzing Matilda is not known. But it was already a popular song and, as an Australian soldier, he would have been very familiar with the emotional bush ...

Joseph Jenkins - who lived the kind of life later immortalised in the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda" - came from Trecefel, Tregaron, in modern-day Ceredigion. The diary he kept each day ...

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