LET'S SING AUSSIE SONGS!: 33 young people, going to Aussie in a couple of week, will have my previous arrangements about English communication. This work came suddenly from one of my working sites just a few days ago. To entertain those they are to see and make friends with, they will learn some Aussie songs from me. I picked up some from Internet resources. First one is "Waltzing Matilda", though it looks a bit difficult for the young to memorize. Another is "Click Go The Shears". 

Waltzing Matilda : lyrics

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

Under the shade of a coolibah tree

and he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled

You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?

Waltzing Matilda,Waltzing Matilda,You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?

and he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled

You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?  .....

A VERY BEAUTIFUL SONG about a traveling ranch-worker. Some words of its lyrics might have come from the aboriginal people. Waltz means "walk". Matilda is a sort of a back pack,  in which a traveling man put all his things. Billabong is a kind of pond, which appears here and there just after a dessert area get dried following heavy rainy season. Coolibah tree is Eucaryptus tree.

THE LYRICS go further, saying that the swagman found a sheep coming to drink water by the billabong and he got it into his tuckerbag. Soon there came a ranch-owner with 3 policemen and asked him about the sheep in his bag. The swagman jumped into the billabong, saying that they would never catch him alive. Soon people there came to hear his ghost singing, "Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, we'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me", around the billabong he jumped into.