Waltzing My Matilda

WALTZING MY MATILDA:: This song is a Vietnam-era anti war song written by a Scottish-Australian singer songwriter named Eric Bogie. He wrote it in 1971, using the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 as a metaphor for the Vietnam war. To make this video I started with WW I and WW II and passed through Korea and Vietnam and on to the entrance into Iraq. You'll keep hearing the recuring lyrics "THERE'LL BE NO MORE WALTZING MATILDA FOR ME". WALTZING here means walking, dancing, traveling, doing things together with your mate so there is a lot of double meaning here. The soldier lost his legs and many people have lost their loved ones and their mates to sickness, or to passing on. In either case for the person who lost limbs or a loved one there'll be no more waltzing for that person for a while. So as you go through the video keep in mine the australian word Waltizing. Matilda means the duffle bag or a wife or girl friend. The title of the song is THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA sung by Priscilla Herdman. My Judy is in the Vietnam section with her MASH 4077 tee shirt on. She is also layered in the first photo with the soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima.