My husband and I watched live, too. It was the middle of the night for us. First time I'd ever heard the song. It was familiar to my husband. Where would we be without sports? Beautiful thing.
Jeez, how could you let this woman murder a song like that? This is about a roughneck stealing sheep and law enforcement so rough you'd be better of dead. Maybe the modern Aussies have gone a bit soft but this is still the stuff the nation was built on and the strength is still there.
Well done Tina and Australia! I keep coming back to this video --- over and over --- through the years --- it's one of my favourites! Cheers from Baz - and the blue girls :)
What a wonderful rendition!! and much emotion!! I already heard the melody of this music by the radio broadcast at my childhood. Recently, I got a chance to know this music name by the video of "Jessica Roemischer". It's really an excellent piece!. [ Jessica Roemischer-Piano-Shenandoah/Waltzing Matilda this ] She has also sung the same words of this music on the piano.
I agree, N K. But a word of warning .... the IAD -- International Association of Dorks -- have probably gotten FURIOUS at you for placing brainless ESPN guy in with them!! LOL
I remember singing this song when I was young in Summer Camp for our Camp Show, I really enjoyed singing it, and anthemwise, it really is a deadheat between this and Advance Australia Fair, oh, we also sang Kookabura, that's a fun song too, and I somewhat memorized all the words to "I Want You" by Savage Garden
I was an Agassi fan waiting for the match to start and was -blown away- by this so much that it is still one of my favorite 'national anthem' moments (ranks just behind Marvin Gaye's Star Spangled Banner rendition in 1983). Beautiful, beautiful beautiful
I agree! I was up late waiting for the men's final, and was completely blown away by this performance. I still remember being completely smitten by Tina Arena's voice. This video takes me back to that late night. Thank u SO MUCH for posting this!!🙏🙏🙏
@kuboman Superb kuboman. Are you an older person? I am, 60. You just described most Americans, too, only back in the 1950s and early 1960s. The biggest sin way too many Americans had back then was racism. In fact, come to think of it, there was a bit of rekindling of that hard-working spirit in the USA starting in 1983 for quite a few years. But I cannot wait to visit the LDU after I retire. "LDU?" ...... = Land Down Under!!
@suecilla I am an American, and you may be right about Australia. I hope to visit it for a couple of weeks some time in the next 5 years or so. And America has definitely gone downhill since I was born in 1951, when I would argue IT was best nation in the world. But USA is definitely not the worst country in the world, what with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela around, nations that have very little freedom. Why did you say that?
@Wargoat6 It was inspired by a "Moritat". These are songs about a crime or cruel encounters trafitionally sung by those wo were "auf der Walz" (Waltzing") In Germany it is still a costum for some craftsmen when they end their apprenticeship to go on the waltz ie travelling around and do jobs only for food and bed. They even usually use names of their girlfriends for their bags. So "Mathilda" is not a funny name for a bag.
Well I'm a rugby player/fan (Waltzing Matilda is the rugby anthem), but you're right, AFL is good. I am planning to come to Colorado and Boston to meet some American mates I met in Ireland. Can't wait to see your country too. And you guys are always welcome in Australia too. As for the accents, I wouldn't mind it sung with a yank accent if she was actually American. But she is Australian, singing this beautiful Aussie anthem with a feigned American accent. I find that a bit sad.
I like some American accents and not others. There's so many different ones! :o) My point with this is that it's an Australian anthem sung by an Australian singer ... with an American accent. It's a bit sad really. If you type "Waltzing Matilda" into TH-cam and watch the second video - the one with the Australian Wallaby Rugby team you'll hear it with a real Aussie accent. It's the adopted anthem of the national rugby team. Stirring stuff for me to listen to as an Aussie abroad. :-)
it's not their hymn. once, in 1976, it was played at the Olympic games, but only becaise Australia had no offical hymn then. before they played god save the queen/king. it is however, easily the most popular australian folk song. maybe only "down under" could challenge that status, if oyu would regard that as a folk song.
OK, for all you non-Aussies, what is a swagman? A jumbuck? A billabong? How many of you knew the answers: Swagman = hobo or tramp. Jumbuck = sheep. Billabong = small pool or pond. of course, I may be wrong about the jumbuck. I know it is an animal, good for eating.
Jolly is jolly like santa claus. a swagman is a camper. A billy is a camping teapot. A jumbuck is a baby sheep. A squatter is a policeman. A Billabong is a small pond in the bush. A Swaggy is short for swagman. Tucker is dinner or lunch. So a tuckerbag is a bag where you keep it. :)
Just reading through the comments, can't believe people don't mind her thick American accent even though she's an Australian singing an Australian song!!! :-S I don't mind American accents, but they don't pretend to be Australian when they sing their national songs!!
Sorry - mistake. A squatter is the guy who legally owned the land (and the jumbuck). It's a story about the "original" white Australians rebelling against the English colonial rule (the troopers and sqatter). Original in inverted commas for obvious reasons.
So you're telling me that the Australian spirit is stealing then becoming an hero rather than be caught ? Accurate historical description of the australian settlers, but I doubt it's very flattering anyhow...
This is easily my favorite version of Waltzing Matilda. Tina Arena knocks it out of the park. This was the Australian Open when Sampras' Coach, Tim Gullickson had to leave because of the discovery of terminal cancer. In one of my favorite matches of all time, Sampras was crying on court against Courier - who was also great friends with Tim. Incredibly memorable tournament.😉
I saw this live when it was broadcast so many years ago. I had tears streaming down my face then, just as I do now after watching again. Such a beautiful rendition of this song.
This made such an impression on me that I still remember it all these years later! It brought tears to my eyes then. It brings tears to my eyes today! OUTSTANDINGLY well done!!! 🙂♥️✊🏾
I think it is the loveliest song for Australia. I think it is very touching, and it illustrates the Australian people's history of persisting with a strong sense of survival and prospering out from a history of criminal prosecution for minor offenses usually committed out of poverty back in Great Britain. Isn't it just beautiful, the concept and the song? The guy was just trying to survive by eating (or acquiring a pet lamb because he was lonely) and he died over it.
I know, probably most Australians do NOT think Tina's version of this song is the best, or maybe even very good. Sorry, mates and Sheilas, but this crazy American DOES think it is the best one. Or at least the best one he has heard on youtube. AND BEWARE, YOU WONDERFUL AUSSIES, this same crazy American is now retired and HOPES TO VISIT YOUR GREAT NATION SOME TIME IN NEXT 3 YEARS!!!! LOL LOL
Wow, no comments here this week, 5 days after Adam Scott became the first Aussie to win the famous Masters golf tournament? Well, here's an honor to him and all of Australia, by an American. "Up jumped Adam Scott and grabbed the title with glee! And he sang as he shoved that Masters Trophy in his golfer's bag ...... You'll come a Waltzing Matilda With Me!!!"
I agree completely with you, "Gravity." I knew I had heard a version of this wonderful song sung by a pretty young Australian -- Tina Arena is Australian, isn't she? -- at some point in my past, and I am now sure that this was it. Literally brought tears to my eyes, even tho' I am not Australian and have never been there. Song is just a great ballad!!
I am an American with lots of Aussie friends. Aussies are awesome people - great at the arts, sports, hard-working, and go-getters. They are also very loyal and know what true friendship and being a 'mate' really is. We have a lot to learn from Aussies.
Saw Tina Arena in Concert as opening support for Bee Gees Wembley 1998 amaszing voice for a small lady Beautiful to boot to love this version of the song
I saw Tina on Young Talent Time back in the very early 80's when she was about 14 years old. She sang Imagine, & from that moment I knew she was the real deal...
Still my favourite rendition. Happy Australia Day to our friends down under!
Stunning. Simply stunning.
I actually remember watching this live. This was an amazing match between Agassi and Sampras as well
My husband and I watched live, too. It was the middle of the night for us. First time I'd ever heard the song. It was familiar to my husband. Where would we be without sports? Beautiful thing.
she's hot
Jeez, how could you let this woman murder a song like that? This is about a roughneck stealing sheep and law enforcement so rough you'd be better of dead. Maybe the modern Aussies have gone a bit soft but this is still the stuff the nation was built on and the strength is still there.
You do realise that Australia is rotting from the core and becoming what America is right? I mean it's inevitable.
I'm an American and love the Aussies - this lady can sing a great song! Awesome
Thank you SO much for posting this! I've been wanting to hear this rendition again since, well, 1995, when I first heard it. I love it!
Well done Tina and Australia! I keep coming back to this video --- over and over --- through the years --- it's one of my favourites!
Cheers from Baz - and the blue girls :)
What a wonderful rendition!! and much emotion!!
I already heard the melody of this music by the radio broadcast at my childhood.
Recently, I got a chance to know this music name by the video of "Jessica Roemischer".
It's really an excellent piece!.
[ Jessica Roemischer-Piano-Shenandoah/Waltzing Matilda this ]
She has also sung the same words of this music on the piano.
I hope the dork who interrupted this masterpiece with that jingle for the NBA updates got fired right away...
I agree, N K. But a word of warning .... the IAD -- International Association of Dorks -- have probably gotten FURIOUS at you for placing brainless ESPN guy in with them!! LOL
beautiful rendition
Thank you from all us USA Aussies
I remember singing this song when I was young in Summer Camp for our Camp Show, I really enjoyed singing it, and anthemwise, it really is a deadheat between this and Advance Australia Fair, oh, we also sang Kookabura, that's a fun song too, and I somewhat memorized all the words to "I Want You" by Savage Garden
I was an Agassi fan waiting for the match to start and was -blown away- by this so much that it is still one of my favorite 'national anthem' moments (ranks just behind Marvin Gaye's Star Spangled Banner rendition in 1983). Beautiful, beautiful beautiful
I saw it live. Amazing.
I agree! I was up late waiting for the men's final, and was completely blown away by this performance. I still remember being completely smitten by Tina Arena's voice. This video takes me back to that late night. Thank u SO MUCH for posting this!!🙏🙏🙏
J'adore cette mélodie... de plus cette version est particulièrement touchante! Merci, Tina et les autres!
@kuboman Superb kuboman. Are you an older person? I am, 60. You just described most Americans, too, only back in the 1950s and early 1960s. The biggest sin way too many Americans had back then was racism. In fact, come to think of it, there was a bit of rekindling of that hard-working spirit in the USA starting in 1983 for quite a few years. But I cannot wait to visit the LDU after I retire. "LDU?" ...... = Land Down Under!!
@suecilla I am an American, and you may be right about Australia. I hope to visit it for a couple of weeks some time in the next 5 years or so. And America has definitely gone downhill since I was born in 1951, when I would argue IT was best nation in the world. But USA is definitely not the worst country in the world, what with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela around, nations that have very little freedom. Why did you say that?
@Wargoat6
It was inspired by a "Moritat".
These are songs about a crime or cruel encounters trafitionally sung by those wo were "auf der Walz" (Waltzing")
In Germany it is still a costum for some craftsmen when they end their apprenticeship to go on the waltz ie travelling around and do jobs only for food and bed.
They even usually use names of their girlfriends for their bags.
So "Mathilda" is not a funny name for a bag.
Well I'm a rugby player/fan (Waltzing Matilda is the rugby anthem), but you're right, AFL is good. I am planning to come to Colorado and Boston to meet some American mates I met in Ireland. Can't wait to see your country too. And you guys are always welcome in Australia too. As for the accents, I wouldn't mind it sung with a yank accent if she was actually American. But she is Australian, singing this beautiful Aussie anthem with a feigned American accent. I find that a bit sad.
I like some American accents and not others. There's so many different ones! :o) My point with this is that it's an Australian anthem sung by an Australian singer ... with an American accent. It's a bit sad really. If you type "Waltzing Matilda" into TH-cam and watch the second video - the one with the Australian Wallaby Rugby team you'll hear it with a real Aussie accent. It's the adopted anthem of the national rugby team. Stirring stuff for me to listen to as an Aussie abroad. :-)
it's not their hymn.
once, in 1976, it was played at the Olympic games, but only becaise Australia had no offical hymn then.
before they played god save the queen/king.
it is however, easily the most popular australian folk song.
maybe only "down under" could challenge that status, if oyu would regard that as a folk song.
Je ne m'en lasse pas! C'est vraiment la meilleur version que j'ai pu entendre! Bravo!
OK, for all you non-Aussies, what is a swagman? A jumbuck? A billabong? How many of you knew the answers: Swagman = hobo or tramp. Jumbuck = sheep. Billabong = small pool or pond. of course, I may be wrong about the jumbuck. I know it is an animal, good for eating.
Jolly is jolly like santa claus. a swagman is a camper. A billy is a camping teapot. A jumbuck is a baby sheep. A squatter is a policeman. A Billabong is a small pond in the bush. A Swaggy is short for swagman. Tucker is dinner or lunch. So a tuckerbag is a bag where you keep it. :)
Just reading through the comments, can't believe people don't mind her thick American accent even though she's an Australian singing an Australian song!!! :-S I don't mind American accents, but they don't pretend to be Australian when they sing their national songs!!
Sorry - mistake. A squatter is the guy who legally owned the land (and the jumbuck). It's a story about the "original" white Australians rebelling against the English colonial rule (the troopers and sqatter). Original in inverted commas for obvious reasons.
So you're telling me that the Australian spirit is stealing then becoming an hero rather than be caught ?
Accurate historical description of the australian settlers, but I doubt it's very flattering anyhow...
This is easily my favorite version of Waltzing Matilda. Tina Arena knocks it out of the park. This was the Australian Open when Sampras' Coach, Tim Gullickson had to leave because of the discovery of terminal cancer. In one of my favorite matches of all time, Sampras was crying on court against Courier - who was also great friends with Tim. Incredibly memorable tournament.😉
Oh okay well pay close attention to your culture AND your laws during the next 2-3 years then come back to me and say that again.
WOW! What a fabulous version of Waltzing Matilda! Tina Arena is the best!
Wheres Tina Arena gone ????
Beautiful voice Gorgeous
Sawe her at Wembley as Warm up act before the Bee gees
Billabong:- a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high
I saw this live when it was broadcast so many years ago. I had tears streaming down my face then, just as I do now after watching again. Such a beautiful rendition of this song.
It is kind of a sad song, it being about a poor man desperate enough to steal a sheep and die trying.
Make that "Wallaby Waltzing Matilda" in TH-cam for a nice version with a singer who is not afraid to belt it out in their natural accent! ;-)
This made such an impression on me that I still remember it all these years later!
It brought tears to my eyes then.
It brings tears to my eyes today!
OUTSTANDINGLY well done!!!
🙂♥️✊🏾
Absolutely the best!
Thanks heaps ;)
i disagree, it's gorgeous. i think this song fits as a tribute for heath ledger.
The WWL damn near ruined it w/ their fuggin 28/58.
This will always be the true anthem for great australia!
Happy Australia Day 2024!
I love Tina, beautiful voice !!!
There is NO better !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNBELIEVABLE Tina ..............
didnt you just agree with him?
Happy Australia Day!
Was this in the Aussie Open?
I'm sure there is bigger
Are you gonna take that?
i got the scakes :P
We have accents??
you are right
I think it is the loveliest song for Australia. I think it is very touching, and it illustrates the Australian people's history of persisting with a strong sense of survival and prospering out from a history of criminal prosecution for minor offenses usually committed out of poverty back in Great Britain. Isn't it just beautiful, the concept and the song? The guy was just trying to survive by eating (or acquiring a pet lamb because he was lonely) and he died over it.
I know, probably most Australians do NOT think Tina's version of this song is the best, or maybe even very good. Sorry, mates and Sheilas, but this crazy American DOES think it is the best one. Or at least the best one he has heard on youtube. AND BEWARE, YOU WONDERFUL AUSSIES, this same crazy American is now retired and HOPES TO VISIT YOUR GREAT NATION SOME TIME IN NEXT 3 YEARS!!!! LOL LOL
Wow, no comments here this week, 5 days after Adam Scott became the first Aussie to win the famous Masters golf tournament? Well, here's an honor to him and all of Australia, by an American. "Up jumped Adam Scott and grabbed the title with glee! And he sang as he shoved that Masters Trophy in his golfer's bag ...... You'll come a Waltzing Matilda With Me!!!"
I agree completely with you, "Gravity." I knew I had heard a version of this wonderful song sung by a pretty young Australian -- Tina Arena is Australian, isn't she? -- at some point in my past, and I am now sure that this was it. Literally brought tears to my eyes, even tho' I am not Australian and have never been there. Song is just a great ballad!!
I am an American with lots of Aussie friends. Aussies are awesome people - great at the arts, sports, hard-working, and go-getters. They are also very loyal and know what true friendship and being a 'mate' really is. We have a lot to learn from Aussies.
Saw Tina Arena in Concert as opening support for Bee Gees Wembley 1998 amaszing voice for a small lady
Beautiful to boot to love this version of the song
I saw Tina on Young Talent Time back in the very early 80's when she was about 14 years old. She sang Imagine, & from that moment I knew she was the real deal...
I'm not Australian... but I totally agree! You can sing it powerful or you can sing it jolly. Great one!
this song is so different when u hear it when u overseas brings to tears miss melb T_T
omg awful ruined by that bing bing bing update!!!
me too ... this song is very close to my heart ... even its inside my heart
Beatiful song with a beautiful voice... what more can i say??? :-)
just beautiful. Tina your the best
This is really pretty :)
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I love Tina Arena!
beautifully sung...
Tina
Sorry, this is a song for a man to sing with the possible exception of the great Judy Durham from the Seekers.
Excellent!! Best version I’ve heard of this great song .