Christina Macpherson
| Christina Macpherson | |
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| Born |
19 June 1864 "Peechalba Station" (near Yarrawonga), Victoria, Australia |
| Died |
27 March 1936 (aged 71) Melbourne, Australia |
Christina Rutherford Macpherson (1864-1936) is credited with having re-played a tune she'd heard circa 1895 which the Australian poet A.B. Patterson (Banjo Paterson) then set to words.
'...& one day I played (from ear) a tune which I had heard played by band at the Races in Warrnambool, a Country town in the Western District of Victoria. Mr Paterson asked what it was - I could not tell him, & he then said he thought he could write some lines to it. He then & there wrote the first verse.'
Thus was Waltzing Matilda written.
The original manuscript of "Waltzing Matilda", transcribed by Christina Macpherson c. 1895.
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- "The Woman who inspired Waltzing Matilda" Waltzing Matilda Australia's Favorite Song
- "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?" site compiled by the National Library of Australia
- Papers of Christina Rutherford Macpherson
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