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title:
Waltzing Matilda (popular version)
category:
Folk Music
lyrics or other text:
Australia's "National song"
Lyrics: ANDREW BARTON PATERSON(1895)
tune: Marie Cowan (1903)
"Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
under the shade of a coolibah tree"