2007-07-16 18:36:23 · 8 answers · asked by Tinkerbell eats Yahoo! 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Other - Music
The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker making a crude cup of tea at a bush camp and stealing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker, he drowns himself in a small lake and goes on to haunt the site.
2007-07-16 23:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its about a homeless guy who stole a goat and the police are chasing after him. he stops at a billabong (small well/watering hole/ pond) and chills there 'till the po po come. then he walks into the water with the goat, thus drowning himself, commiting suicide, and avoiding the popo at the same time. as he is walking shamelesly into the shallow pool, he is singing 'waltzing matilda' out loud.
2007-07-16 18:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by starcraftruinedmylife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Matilda I think is an Australian colloquialism for bedroll..I could be wrong.
2007-07-16 18:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by Chaz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
uhhh,I know it's the Aussie thing,......maybe their version of a waltz/anthem thingy, with some chick named Matilda...they're upside down there,so who knows!?
2007-07-16 18:43:25 · answer #4 · answered by t_blond_chick 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
a Aussie kangaroo.
2007-07-16 20:16:00 · answer #5 · answered by raja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Tom Traubert's Blues" is a "Vietnam vet alcoholic down and out stream of consciousness" song.
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/
2007-07-16 18:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by feelflows 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A dancing kangaroo....
2007-07-16 18:43:41 · answer #7 · answered by ndmac 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Mathilda
2007-07-16 18:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by guess who at large 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋