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Waltzing Matilda

April 26, 2009 - 3:18 am - by Richard Fernandez
Bob Murphy
2009-04-27 02:44:31

Apparently “Matilda” was the nickname the German Army gave their packs a long time ago.
And Waltzing Matilda was a slang term for walking with your pack.
There were a lot of Germans here in Oz right from gold rush times (early 1850s) and perhaps before.
There’s no way of proving it now but that keeps coming up as the origin of the term Waltzing Matilda.