In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

This was also known as the Waltz and is the origin of the Australian song Waltzing Matilda.

Eric Bogle wrote a popular song, " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( 1972 ), after watching in Australia a parade of elderly veterans of the Gallipoli campaign.

In the 19th century, a squatter was a person who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock-the phenomenon is referred to in the song Waltzing Matilda.

Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland.

In 2008, this recording of " Waltzing Matilda " was added to the " Sounds of Australia Registry " in the National Film and Sound Archive which says that there are more recordings of " Waltzing Matilda " than any other Australian song.

Waltzing Matilda, often regarded as Australia's unofficial National anthem, is a quintessential Australian folk song, influenced by Celtic folk ballads.

Waltzing Matilda, often regarded by foreigners as Australia's unofficial national anthem, is a quintessential Australian country song, influenced more by Celtic folk ballads than by American Country and Western music.

* A swagman's bundle, as in the song " Waltzing Matilda "

The lyrics of Australia's best known folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", were written by the bush poet Banjo Paterson in 1895.

Other well-known singers of Australian folk music include Rolf Harris ( who wrote " Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport "), John Williamson, and Eric Bogle whose 1972 song " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " is a sorrowful lament to the Gallipoli Campaign.

Billy tea is the drink prepared by the ill-fated swagman in the popular Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda.

Along the way he subsequently ends up inventing several things that are considered Australian Icons in the real world, for example beer soup ( vegemite ), putting corks on a string round his hat to keep flies off ( a common Australian outback hat stereotype ), as well as becoming the subject of a ballad that is hinted at being a parody of the song " Waltzing Matilda " when he is caught apparently stealing a sheep by a billabong. A gigantic circular storm surrounding Fourecks prevents any ships from leaving, however.

A romanticised figure, the swagman is famously referred to in the song " Waltzing Matilda ", by Banjo Paterson, which tells of a swagman who turns to stealing a sheep from the local squatter.

The song " And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " tells the story of a swagman who fought at Gallipoli.

Billabongs are referred to relatively often in Australian literature ; Banjo Paterson's famous folk song " Waltzing Matilda " takes place beside a billabong.

Lead singer Dave McPherson also has a song entitled " Sunny Lynton " on his EP Crescent Summer Sessions and refers to Watersmeet on " Waltzing in a Supermarket " on " I Don't Do Requests ".

In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his song, " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda ", as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his song, " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda ", as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Winton is intimately involved in the story of the popular Australian folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", which had its first performance in the North Gregory Hotel in the town.

The Waltzing Matilda Centre opened in 1998 and is the first museum dedicated to a song.

* " Matilda " ( song ), made popular by Harry Belafonte

His first widely-released single, which went on to become his " signature " song with audience participation in virtually all his live performances, was " Matilda ", recorded April 27, 1956.

The Scottish singer-songwriter Alistair Hulett wrote a song about the ' swaggies ' called " The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away " ( mp3 download from the Artist's website ), which appeared on his album The Cold Grey Light Of Dawn.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

The same could be said for the song to which they make their entrance in the final scene.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

She found herself able to sing any role and any song which struck her fancy.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

* " Atmosphere ", a song which became a hit for Russ Abbot in 1984

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.