Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda
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- Music video by Slim Dusty performing Waltzing Matilda
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Lyrics:
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
He sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
He sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
you'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
you'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
you'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Up rode the troopers, one, two, three,
With the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
With the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, you scoundrel with me.
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,
You'll never catch me alive, said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
you'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.
Oh, you'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me.
Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 - 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song, with a version of Gordon Parsons' "A Pub with No Beer". He received an unequalled 37 Golden Guitar and two Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and the Country Music Roll of Renown.
YOU’RE GONE BUT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. RIP SLIM DUSTY TRUE AUSSIE
Now he is on the waltz for ever...But his Ghost may be heard as you passed by a billabong...
Lets we forget.
so sad
@Mark Thompson You're Aren't
He was true blue
I'm half Mexican half Australian m, my dad showed me this song when I was a kid. I remember him by listening to it.
Miss u dad.
Hell of a combo and two of the coolest countries on the planet. Cheers to you mate.
The girl that did the Old El Paso commercial is Australian ,but Mexican at the same time.
Good for you, my friend.
Yo soy Mexicano deseando ir a Australia con mi hija que viene en camino..!!
Wow never seen that mix before
I’m 79 yrs old and have lived in Oz since I was 4. My parents were Hungarian and were refugees from WW2 and arrived here in 1949. As a kid I just wanted to be like all the other kids and become fully Aussie as quickly as possible. I’m about as Aussie as you can get ….i was bitten by a snake when I was 10: and can play a didgeridoo. I love Australia and reckon it’s the best country in the world and of course I love Waltzing Matilda. For those who don’t know a swagman is a homeless person who carries his bedroll (swag) over his shoulder. Matilda is the nickname for his bedroll (swag) and carrying it all day is “waltzing” his Matilda.
Soon after my parents arrived my dad had to go work somewhere and my mum had to go into hospital for two weeks. I was left with an Australian family for two weeks. When my parents came to pick me up they greeted me in Serbian. I replied, don’t talk to me in that dago talk! 😀 I have never spoken Serbian or Hungarian since!
Thank you!!! I love this song! I'm learning it on the guitar. It's pretty easy and two of my grandkids are coming Tomorrow whose grandparents are from australia cell?I will have the scoop for them!😊
@@vickersonp Aren't dagos Italians?
@@sa-jh8is
Back in 1949 it applied to all Europeans. Basically if you didn’t speak English you were a dago, 😀
@@vickersonpso you were a bilingual child? Do you understand any of the two languages?
I’m Scottish with no relations in Australia but for some reason i’ve always felt drawn to the country. This song makes me feel patriotic for a country that isn’t even my own. What a tune it is!
👍👍
Lots of Australians have Scottish heritage you’ll find Scotland and australia have many similarities socially
Americans feel the same way!!! The aussies must be protected!!!!!
@GOAT PENETRATOR I’m from the far north of Scotland and the Snowies definitely do bare some resemblance
@@Ratdaddy752 the melody of this sang may have it,s origins in scotland.....thou bonnie woods of craigilee.
My grandpa sang me this song when I was a kid. He had been a sailor in US Merchant Marine in WWII and learned the song from some Aussie Diggers he had befriended in the Southwest Pacific in 1945. He grew up in Arizona and said the Aussies reminded him of people back home, so he got on with them quite well in Borneo.
I'm not Australian, but I love this old song. I remember learning it in music at school in England and I'm nearly 60 now. Great song, great people, great country. Long live the lucky country.
@M Soccer is only played in USA Football is played worldwide (Yes i know theyre the same thing only football is the proper name.
My Mum intentionally taught me "God Save Our Queen" instead of my native anthem.
(She'd immigrated to Australia 40 years ago back then).
My school were stunned to see an Aussie student that didn't know their own countries anthem! Lol
Not as stunned as I was when I learned Australia had a different anthem obviously😂
@@norwegiannationalist7678 Soccer is played in Australia, New Zealand, Canada & USA although not as popular as other spots but soccer is very popular in Ireland, Japan & many other countries.
@@aheat3036 You do realise Soccer and Football is the same thing? Its only that USA calls it Soccer while the rest of the world calls it Football.
@@norwegiannationalist7678 Wrong aszhole!… The USA can easily destroy your shitehole country if it really wanted to but all the countries I mentioned above (who have their own version of football) and more call the sport soccer which is the original name anyway!… Italy, for example, calls the sport calcio!… Only stupid one sport countries with stupid people call it “football”!
I'm from bali.. When i was a child.. Always listening. Kangaroo radio australia.. And my dad taught me..how to sing This song.. Miss u dad.. 🤘🤘🙏 i just loved this tone.. 🍁😍
A little known fact: This tune was adopted as the USMC's 1st Marine Division March. After It's campaign in the Solomon Islands in 1942, the division, was redeployed to Australia for a well deserved rest and refit. Australia welcomed them with open arms and at the time were seen as the saviors of the nation. The division adopted this folk song as a tribute.
I was drafted '67 into the USA Army, ended up trained as an OH6A crew chief, and in the Republic of South Vietnam by '68. We were down in Indian country in our OH6A, the pilot and myself. We could use the radio. Our own could not come get us. I was scared as hell. The Australians in an UH1D Bell Helicopter showed up. I was so thankful for those guys. I thank all Australians from the bottom of my heart. Godspeed.
Today, I have 1 daughter and 3 grandchildren. Her husband is a Major in the Army. I was in a lot of places like Montreal/Ottawa '67, Vietnam '68, Australia in '69, and back to the USA by age 21. Eaglegards...
@@fastsetinthewest Thank you for your service, sir! :)
Semper Fi
@@edwardgoering1237 Funny. My cousin, Margaret Brewer, was the first Marine Corps general. I waited, got drafted into the Army, and sent to Nam '68.
@@fastsetinthewest i was a 12 yr old kid in 68 my parents broke up from al the stress I worked a few yrs from age 16 then got my GED went into the USMC 78-84 F-$ Hyd Mech 81 cruise on uss FORRESTaL we shadowed the Nimitz US 2 Libya 0
What a gentle smile at the end of this wonderful song
RIP Slim Dusty
In WW2, the Australian soldiers under Lt.Col. Charles Anderson charged the Japanese roadblocks singing 'Waltzing Matilda' during the breakout at Bakri, Malaya in 1942.
Thank you for sharing about this historic event!
I’m Australian and didn’t know this, thanks lol
I had a friend who was a survivor of a Japanese war camp in Manila. She was an Australian fan (and snake) dancer who, while being ushered to the safe side of town remembered the Christmas cake that her mother had sent her and went all the way back to retrieve it. She did.
At every roadblock they’d ask her what country she was from, and she didn’t lie. Her Australian accent made them all think she was saying Austrian and they let her through. Except that LAST checkpoint: the soldier there had experience with Aussies and arrested her. She was in for two years.
(Pretty expensive Christmas cake don’t you think?)
@@laylaeriksen4593 that’s shit as. Grandpas brother (mums side) fought on the Kokoda trail but was killed when he when back to fight around 55
And here is the start of a bond with the Dutch( as I am a Dutchy). As the Aussies helped in Europe as wel as in Indonesia, colonial aerea of Holland in those days.
So I heard of this song in my childhood too.
Football and cangeroes were not the origin
I remember watching Slim Dusty sing this song at the closing of the 2000 summer Olympics held at Sydney.
my father sang this when i was young, he learned it while with the ANZACs during ww2. i'm old now, but i still miss him. thank you for this.
I'm English and have always had - and will have until the day I die - the greatest respect for Australia and New Zealand. In two World Wars - and in other conflicts as well - both of these TRUE friends have stood by our side.
I'm half from England, half from New Zealand, and a couple of grandparents currently live in Australia. I can do about 5 authentic regional dialects per country in one bloody sentence!
Yeah no matter how much usa, England, Australia and new Zealand make fun of each other in the end where all great allies and have great respect for each other
@Big Blue ANOTHER Yank fantasist!......
@@lachlancarter2468 You left out Canada
@Big Blue Americans have to stop thinking they’re all that, yes you have an amazing army and stuff but like in ww1 and 2 you where the last country to come in coming in years late, Australia fought for themselves in Australia but helped out our allies in other countries, also things like Australia’s fires last summer, I keep in hearing Americans talking about how they “saved Australia” like no you guys on FINALLY came in after 40 million acres have burned down and 700 million animals dead you prob didn’t even know that the fires started back in September because your country and news are quite self centred but when it comes to California after only three million acres burned down (which is a lot but not compared to Australia’s fires) you get mad at the world for not instantly sending in every fireman and women we have
Just had my first kid a little girl and named her Matilda loved slim since I herd Duncan for the first time when I was 13 now 29 and still can’t get enough
Rest easy old mate
CONGRATS on the little girl 💝
Slim, you brought Australia together. RIP cobber. ❤️
Prayers to the people of Australia.
And prayers for all the creatures and Forest too
Stop praying and start helping
@YO YO MOFO yes, because it's definitely asonists that is causing the fires in Australia, not, like, the fact that it's bloody hot. That concept is just insane.
MrBigrobmjca3 indeed
We’ll be right...cheers!
At school we would have to sing God Save The Queen and it would be sang with a great lack of enthusiasm. Then they decided to allow us to sing Waltzing Matilda after the national anthem and the whole school would sing it with a joy that I will always remember.
Waltzing Matilda is much more Australia in spirit. God Save the Queen is just because Australia was a Bristish Colony, while Waltzing Matilda is anti authority and a free spirit to it. No wonder this wasn't Australia's national anthem! XD
Aw man I wish I could sing waltzing Matilda at my assembly’s after the. National anthem
Amen brother.
So 'Advance Australia Fair' is just forgotten?
@@theturtwig50 You guys seem awfully willing to forget that Australia as we know it even you most likely wouldnt be here if it wasnt for the British. God Save The Queen!
Listening to this before the Matildas vs England game tonight!!!
I love this song,
Anybody else get goosebumps when he says his ghost may be heard by that billabong?
Yes. This. 2:13
I believe matilda refers to a blanket, correct me if I am wrong
@@allensacharov5424 isn’t that the swag
This song is about the swagmen committing suicide but me as a kid never knew that :) I’m an azzie 🇦🇺👍
Creepy. ( I’m in America and I LOVE THIS SONG. Also I learned this song in music
I'm a Yank and say what you will, to me this song is about FREEDOM and nothing less. If I had my way, Waltzing Matilda would be the anthem for the planet Earth.
As an Aussie, I can also say freedom is the way to go, and fuck communism!
What do yanks know about freedom? Don't you get arrested there for having a beer in public?
You ''get'' it.....congratulations.
Depends on where you are at. Yes if you live in a city or state run but the democrats.
Just something, I always love about this version. Yes, it’s the laughter, so innocent, innovative and marching to a very unconventional drum beat. Hehaw!
I’ve heard a number of covers of this song, but none have come close to Slim Dusty’s; he was such a perfect fit for the song.
I can see why it was he was was selected to close the 2000 Sydney Olympics
👍👍
Me an American:
Oh he wants to dance with Matilda.
Looks up the songs meaning:
Oh, well that's f'ed up.
Me an American. He wants to dance with Matilda. Looks up song. Oh, hell yes that's so wild west!
Ikr. I’m Canadian and my dad (Australian ) used to sing this to me when I was little and I thought the same thing. But when I was maybe 9 I found out.
@@timesthree5757 wild west is beta Australian m8 Aussie here
Woah. That is messed up.
@@cobymccarthy1088 late 19th century Australia and 19th century US are nearly identical cultures. English speaking immigrant culture clashes with natives who already live there among vast open plains with some mountains in the distance. Why do you think we share musical styles and themes?
That fiddle section before the last 'you'll come a-walzing...' is magical
I had a teacher in HighSchool that was from Australia. At the end of the school year he sang this song to the class.I can still hear him todat. Good job Mr. Ast.
Hello Jean, how are you doing?
Best rendition of Waltzing Matilda. Here is a shout for Slim Dusty!
This was my grandfathers favourite song he passed away😢
It is so nice to hear this song from a man worthy of respect.
Australia! You'll never get a better "national hymn"! !!!
Beautiful rendition! First time I heard this was 1967 when I was in Sydney for R&R. I remember being treated better by the Aussies than I ever was back in the States. God bless Australia, the best friend the US ever had!
Ole mate
My time living in OZ taught me this song, regardless of the detractors I still sing it from time to time. One of the grand memories of living in Australia.
Great singing & performance 👍 GOD bless Australia 🦘
Nothing will ever compare to slim dusty's "waltzing matilda"
I remember when I was young, this song was played all over the radio in 1960s. I've always loved it. In 1977, went through Europe one summer with group of Aussies on a tour bus camping, we played that song everyday. It was explained to me this was a patriotic song in Australia - should be their national anthem IMO. One of my favorite songs.
Learnt this song when I was ten from my Australian teacher who taught my class in the UK! …18 years later & still haven’t forgotten it ❤
bro was your teacher a female
Love the australian accent it's the one country I'd love to Visit fkn beautiful place and beautiful folk music used to sing this in school in Scotland lol love the country stay strong Australia we love you 🇬🇧🏴
Most of us are some strain of Scots/english/Irish descent. We've got that in common.
They made us learn this song in school and I have never forgotten it. I love this song.
I only recently just found out the song's true meaning. This song was played over and over again in Primary school music class, and none of us knew the man had killed himself in the end. I always just assumed he died of age eventually and haunted the area afterward.
It was actually a true story!
He drowned himself while trying to escape the police for stealing a horse.
It's an allegory of the consequences of unfettered power and greed. Something that stirs the heart of every Australian. The country of the fair go for all.
@@jamescrab4110 Your literal interpretation of the song is how you see it. Please consult your dictionary for the meaning of allegory which is the key to my interpretation.Both interpretations are valid.Mine is more poetic while your's is bound up in dry legalise.The true question is why this song has remained in the popular mind for so long and it is because it is a warning of the outcome of a corrupt political system and a price paid whether you go along with that system or fight against it.Of course this has nothing to do with the current political system of coercion and control and the demolition of our freedoms, ''for the common good''. I will now stand down from my soap box and resume ''normal'' activities. Cheers.
Miss u pa it’s almost been a year since u have been gone 💔 I knew this was ur favourite song I miss u like hell 💔
This song is so pardoxical. You think it is a cheerful song, but it is a really sad song.
God bles ya slim always rembered never forgoten
Terry Daisy
Aussie legend!!!
Most people don't know this but Waltzing Matilda was one of the two songs when there were deciding Australia national anthem. But the government decided to go with Advance Australia Fair due to the story of this song
dantheman396 Well i mean the waltzing matilda almost won on the pole but they were 4 votes short or something to Advance austrailia fair
YOURE SAYINH WE COULD OF HAD THIS SONG?!?! HMPH
Mate, that would’ve be awesome to sing though.
We voted on the tune not the lyrics ..also something many did not even understand at the time....and one of 3...also God Save the Queen...again the melody...not the words.
One of the few songs I never get tired of.
Great song, well done Australia, all the best from your mates in the U.K.
Amazing! My mother would sing this to me when I was little. Thank you for this song. One of my favorites.
During this time of decreased freedom we are so nostalgic at the freedoms we had as we grew up! Thanks for the memories! Here's hoping the new migrants learn a little of the culture of this great South land of the Holy Spirit! Good on ya Slim!
Brings back fond memories of a night drinking with a bunch of Aussies, we slughtered a fair amount of beer that night.
As an Australian I grew up with this song❤
Of course, I was born in England and now live in Canada and still feel patriotic to Australia.
This is a famos Australien song. I live over twenty years in Australia and this song bring me home.
Definitions and explanation of terms:
Swagman: An itinerant worker who walked around from place to place carrying his belongings with him (his swag). Most were genuinely looking for steady work while a few were lazy tramps who wanted to do the minimum work for the maximum pay.
Billabong: A branch of a stream which has been cut off by the water flow changing direction. Larger versions are also known as an oxbow lake.
Coolibah/Coolabah tree: A variety of eucalyptus tree.
Billy: A tin pot used both to brew tea in and for general cooking.
Waltzing Matilda: The swagman's bed-roll was often carried at the hip and it swung back and forth as the man walked. It was nicknamed "Matilda" since it was the "only woman he slept with". The swinging motions recalled a lively waltz, hence to walk around while carrying your bedroll was "waltzing Matilda". The question "who'll come a-walzing Matilda with me" invokes the concept of being lonely and craving companionship.
Jumbuk: A young, male sheep. Aka a ram.
Tucker-bag: Tucker is food, so it's a food bag.
Squatter: In this context, a farmer who occupied crown land with the approval of the government in order to farm the land and develop and improve it.
Thoroughbred: A thoroughbred horse was expensive, indicating that the squatter was wealthy and could easily have afforded to lose a single sheep.
Trooper: A soldier. Filled the role of the police before the police force was established. The fact that the squatter brought three of them to catch a single thief indicates heavy-handedness in applying the law.
Prisons at the time were very nasty and very rough. Many people would have thought death to be an acceptable alternative.
Some might ask what alternatives did the squatter have to calling in the troopers? One possible alternative would have been to offer the swagman a job, docking his wages by a percentage until the cost of the sheep was paid for. Most swagmen would have jumped at that chance since they only resorted to theft in order to stay alive.
as a dutchman in the netherlands from europe, i must say i know this song for a very long time, don't know how i know this song, but i'm glad i do, love this song and type of music very much, i hope Y'all have a splendid day folks
RIP BAZZ
my grandpa who served as a sailor in ww2 used to sing this song all the time
Jesus i love that song.
God I love this song? I have family in Victoria Australia and it always reminds me of my beautiful friend Matilda who really is stunning like this song XXX ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
One of the best history songs.
When I first heard this song ‘Waltzing Matilda’ many years ago, I thought it was the Australian national anthem. Yes, friends, quite frankly: for me it is the real national anthem of Australia. Why? Because you hear this song all over the continent; and certainly much more often than 'Advance Australia Fair'.
And Slim Dusty: EXCELLENT! AS HE ALWAYS WAS.
El valor,el honor y la nobleza d ese pueblo nunca a estado en duda. Australia y Oceanía entera ha dado muestras d quien y cómo son. Sobra el mí papa o mi abuelo en la guerra hizo o dejo d hacer.son y serán grandes gentes d bien. Grcs.
I dont understand ll this people who dislike so many songs, but still they listen to them
Love "waltzing Mathilda", greetings from a snowy Sweden 🌲❤️
This song is giving me a memory I never had. ❤
This may be based on real events and people who existed for real. Some songs are.
Love this rendition. Its AWESOME!!
Yes ít is I shiver at the sound of many national anthems and feel the meaning of many. Enjoy others pride and patriotism
Every ANZAC day, I'll pop this tune in memory to the fallen 🍻🙏
Love this version. You made me smile. 🤗
Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face!.....
i am practising this song in the preformance i like the song and listning
The Official March of the 1st Marine Division. Semper Fi Uncle Mac!
It’s sad how there’s probably never gonna be great artists like this again
It's a pity that this is not the official anthem of Australia, it deserves to be the anthem. a very beautiful song about Matilda 😍😍
This was heard as a 🧒; my auntie and uncle married in Australia. Now these are my fond reminiscences together with kangaroos and sheep galore. Thank you 🙏 so very much.
Hello Agnes, how are you doing?
Lest we forget, r.i.p slim mate.
My late grandfather looked like Slim and from what I know of Slim, my Grandfather was just great at his job as grandfathering me. Saturday night roast lamb and veggies - then Sunday a drive in his FJ with sandwiches made from the roast. Magical moments from early'60's till his early passing in 1976. And we jammed - him with his banjo and I with a guitar. We were hopeless but we enjoyed it. He taught me to be a Grandfather which I try to duplicate.
You guys should’ve seen him do this song live at the Sydney Olympics
People from Africa Asia and Europe singing along
RIP, Slim Dusty! The Good Lord called you home! :)
Slim Dusty does Waltzing Matilda proud!
before I kick it, I'd love to visit Australia Xx
Soon as can mate jump the ditch come on down I'd shout ya a beer mate
Always welcome mate!
I just love slims songs so far :)
Freemen are heroes to us all
2:12 Look out hahahaha, "his ghost!" look out, Slim is gonna haunt you!
This is a Classic song
Being from the American south I feel a great affinity for Australia and her culture which has much in common with ours, I suppose its bc we're both the outcasted dregs of the UK lol
Just liked every comment so everybody will come back and hear this beautiful song again thank you Slim for an amazing song
Nice. I first heard this song in a cartoon many years ago. Fell in love. And I have fallen in love with it again
The true Australian character. I think they broke the mould after he was born.
A true Aussie legend. There won't be another one quite like him. We were the better
for him living in Australia when he did!!
Q bonita melodía, q voz tan hermosa,q grande eres. Perdón eras.siempre en nuestro corazón y nuestro recuerdo . tú eres Australia. Os amo viejo trovador.
For me and my friends this is the best of all Aussie country songs. Thank you so much Slim Dusty
P.S. I especially want to thank those soldiers of the 6th RA Regiment who served in Vietnam.
When there was a recent for in Bali everyone ran except the Australians and the South Africans. Enough said.
I remember as a wee lad my dad would get a wee bit snookered and break out his harmonica and play this song
I love Australian country. As an American they're the only other country with old school cowboys.
Happy Australia Day 2023
Slim Dusty's legend
I knew this song from my own time as a kid , but found Slim,s video here on youtube , so played it & joined in at the top of my voice , forgetting that the property across the road had been sold to a young ( & nice ) couple , as the vid finished I realised I had left the bloody door wide open & the whole lane heard me giving it full blast at Waltzing Matilda , this was a sunset & nobody said anything . I thought that was it & I,d got away with it , but some time later the young couple had a little baby , the guy, quite rightly very proudly , cornered me & told me with some considerable sense of great occasion their little daughter,s chosen name ; Matilda ! Slim mate , you helped name a little kid in central england , from beyond . Respect .
Great great nation, you'll always be our eternal family 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
Of course m8 were u
I love this
best Australian song in my opinion
Den Begriff "Matildas" kenne ich seit der Weltmeisterschaft im Fußball der Frauen 2023. Eine großartige australische Mannschaft konnte ich am Bildschirm erleben und danach diesen "Ohrwurm" Waltzing Matildas und seine Entstehungsgeschichte.
My name is dusty and I was named after you your the best
No, your name is Debbie, you liar
Thank you Slim Dusty! I've always liked this tune. Now that I've had the lyrics explained, I love the tune and your rendering of it is wonderful. I would have enjoyed visiting Australia in my younger days.