Is "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" a popular folk song down under?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

I get choked up by it, and I'm not even Australian!

I am a WWI buff though!

Answer 1

It is a popular song, but not a folk song.  It was written by Eric Bogle in the last 30 or so years.

Waltzing Matilda probably counts as a folk song, although it was written by AB "Banjo" Patterson.  I suppose it depends on what you mean by folk song.

Answer 2

It gives me goosbumps when I hear it and had the pleasure of seeing Eric Bogle play it live once great song along with "I was only  Nineteen." by Redgum.

Answer 3

Some consider it to be our national anthem ....although it is not. The original version was written by the great Australian poet Banjo Patterson.

Answer 4

I really love it and your right it really is emotional ,you may also like to listen to Redgums -I was only 19 ,it's about Vietnam

Answer 5

awwwwwwwwww you made me cry

I'm an Aussie living away from my homeland

that song never fails to choke me up to

there are a lot of singers that released it and its good to hear the different versions.this one is by john Williamson,a wonderful  Australian folk singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22gszljk...

Lest We Forget

Answer 6

Yes it is.I cry every time I hear it being sang..

Answer 7

Huge Australian song especially for the old ones.

Answer 8

Only if you are an Eric Bogle fan

Answer 9

I can not sing it without my voice breaking ( and no I am not a teenage boy) ....

since you're a world war one buff can i reccommend two books to you , both by Les carlyon ...

The Great War

and

Gallipoli.