Waltzing Matilda - Ali Mills

[Brian Probetts (Site Admin)]

This is absolutely brilliant!

A TOP End Kriol version of Australia's favourite song is on its way to becoming the Territory's next big national hit.

Ali Mills' Waltjim Bat Matilda has been causing a stir down south, being played by high-profile radio hosts and receiving hundreds of hits on Mills' MySpace page.

The song is a version of our unofficial national anthem Waltzing Matilda, the lyrics for which were penned by Banjo Paterson on a track east of Winton, in Outback Queensland.

It is sung in the Top End's Kriol, a combination of languages said to have grown organically from the meeting of Aboriginal, European and Chinese people around Darwin.


Ali Mills - Waltjim Bat Matilda - YouTube

[Stan Carter]

certainly gets the old toes a tapping..... ah well, we still have the lumberjack song
regards, stan

[Keith at Tregenna]

certainly gets the old toes a tapping..... ah well, we still have the lumberjack song:
regards, stan

MUCH MORE AT LINK: http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/a...g-matilda.html

K.

[Doc Vernon]

Very Good but i cant understamd a Bl--dy word haha!
Nice tune for Dancing the Who Flung Dung!
HAHA!
Cheers

[Richard Quartermaine]

Brian, if some poor, tired old swagman camped beside a billabong and all that racket was going on, there's no wonder he jumped into it.

Richard

[happy daze john in oz]

Brian, if some poor, tired old swagman camped beside a billabong and all that racket was going on, there's no wonder he jumped into it.

Richard

Wonder how many Stubbies she got for that?