Comments on: A Question http://blogwaffe.com/2004/12/25/197/ Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational blog station Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MDA http://blogwaffe.com/2004/12/25/197/#comment-122 MDA Sun, 02 Jan 2005 18:58:37 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2004/12/25/197/#comment-122 Hm. Well it wasn't a compilation. It was a couple of honest to God Irish people: one on violin one on uilleann pipes. Perhaps the instruments were enough in their minds to make it Celtic. Hm. Well it wasn’t a compilation. It was a couple of honest to God Irish people: one on violin one on uilleann pipes. Perhaps the instruments were enough in their minds to make it Celtic.

]]> By: Dixie http://blogwaffe.com/2004/12/25/197/#comment-116 Dixie Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:35:07 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2004/12/25/197/#comment-116 The poet's fiancee was a Riley and the lady who wrote the music was a MacPherson, so the xaosseed isn't far off. However, according to a <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/1-Orig-Christina.html">web site</a> turned up by a random Google, the tune was a pre-existing folk song, that Ms. MacPherson heard the tune being played by a band one day, and that the origin of the tune was probably either "Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea," a song that in turn may have vague and fuzzy roots in other folk songs. In any case, the song as it exists now is about as Aussie as it gets, and whoever compiled your dad's CD was probably confusing "Celtic" with "former English colonies." The poet’s fiancee was a Riley and the lady who wrote the music was a MacPherson, so the xaosseed isn’t far off. However, according to a web site turned up by a random Google, the tune was a pre-existing folk song, that Ms. MacPherson heard the tune being played by a band one day, and that the origin of the tune was probably either “Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea,” a song that in turn may have vague and fuzzy roots in other folk songs.

In any case, the song as it exists now is about as Aussie as it gets, and whoever compiled your dad’s CD was probably confusing “Celtic” with “former English colonies.”

]]> By: xaosseed http://blogwaffe.com/2004/12/25/197/#comment-113 xaosseed Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:18:58 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2004/12/25/197/#comment-113 I'm no trad expert, but Waltzing Matilda has always been associated with Australia to the best of my knowledge. Maybe the link is that a lot of the convicts packed off to Oz were Irish and Scots? *shrug* I’m no trad expert, but Waltzing Matilda has always been associated with Australia to the best of my knowledge. Maybe the link is that a lot of the convicts packed off to Oz were Irish and Scots?

*shrug*

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