tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post9212711175420829537..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: Cranky CrazyDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-6581685014964375282007-11-12T08:44:00.000-05:002007-11-12T08:44:00.000-05:00Oh that's even sadder....Oh that's even sadder....Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708193382458741745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-27264339598419488712007-11-07T08:20:00.000-05:002007-11-07T08:20:00.000-05:00Hi Jill, Actually, it's "The Band Played Waltzing ...Hi Jill, <BR/>Actually, it's "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda," which is about the Australian soldiers that died at Gallipoli. The lyrics are here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/bandplayedwaltzing.php?index=080.010.020.020Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-55483067049811628762007-11-07T06:04:00.000-05:002007-11-07T06:04:00.000-05:00Do you mean you played Waltzing Matilda the Austra...Do you mean you played Waltzing Matilda the Australian song to your students? Being of Australian heritage, I was sung that regularly as a lullaby as a child, and it's one of my daughter's favourite lullabies too. I suppose it could be interpreted as depressing, but we've always thought of it more as an "up yours" sort of a song - that hungry jolly swagman's not going to let the oppressors grind him down and submit to their British handcuffs, forget that. I admit I did lie to my daughter when she started asking "what's his ghost" as quite a young child - I told her he jumped into the billabong and probably swam underwater to the other side and escaped. Which is possible.<BR/><BR/>Australia had a referendum to decide the national anthem (no longer to be God save the queen) in the 70s and I remember being so pleased that my parents voted for Waltzing Matilda instead of that silly Advance Australia Fair that got chosen in the end. I think it would have been a fine song. At least for those of us with convict heritage.<BR/><BR/>I suppose the really sad thing is that the jolly swagman and his oppressed mates never succeeded in having a proper revolution as the Americans did. Though Ned Kelly, another Australian hero (who also ended up dead of course but not by his own hand) had a go.<BR/><BR/>But perhaps you were thinking of some other Waltzing Matilda?Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708193382458741745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-42232287205090363142007-11-06T16:26:00.000-05:002007-11-06T16:26:00.000-05:00Could you get a little portable heater for your of...Could you get a little portable heater for your office? We have to bring them into the grad cubicles all the time. (but don't leave them plugged in because you don't want to be blamed for burning the building down!)Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.com