Though the title of the song sounds like it’s about a dance with someone named Matilda, it’s actually born of an Australian style of poetry called a “bush ballad”—slang in the country for traveling on ...
TONY EASTLEY: A couple of outback historians may be rewriting the story behind one of the Australia's most loved songs, "Waltzing Matilda". Peter and Sheila Forrest have written "Banjo and Christina: ...