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Hi all,
Here is my first attempt at a vignette. It is a recreation of the first two
lines of the famous Australian poem Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Patterson. For those who don’t know: a swagman
is a sort of rural itinerant and a billabong is a waterhole (pond). Its a nice
poem/song although the ending is not what you would call uplifting. If you want
to read the full thing, you’ll probably need lots of translation as it most
definitely in Australian English.
Waltzing Matilda
or the Brickshelf
gallery where you can find a rotation mpeg and a closer view of the
swaggie.
This nearly became the National Anthem so, but for a few votes, you may have
heard this played a lot at the Olympics.
Hope you like it,
Tim
PS. If I ever get a digi-cam I’ll make it “in the brick” and post pictures.
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In lugnet.build.vignette, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Hi all,
Here is my first attempt at a vignette. It is a recreation of the first two
lines of the famous Australian poem Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Patterson. For those who don’t know: a
swagman is a sort of rural itinerant and a billabong is a waterhole (pond).
Its a nice poem/song although the ending is not what you would call
uplifting. If you want to read the full thing, you’ll probably need lots of
translation as it most definitely in Australian English.
Waltzing Matilda
or the Brickshelf
gallery where you can find a rotation mpeg and a closer view of the
swaggie.
This nearly became the National Anthem so, but for a few votes, you may have
heard this played a lot at the Olympics.
Hope you like it,
Tim
PS. If I ever get a digi-cam I’ll make it “in the brick” and post pictures.
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Very cool idea for a vignette and well carried out. It expresses the feeling and
atmosphere of the song really well, the beginning is peaceful and this is really
well reflected in your vignette. I would love to see a series of vignettes for
the remaining part of the song.
On a side note Waltzing Matilda is what they actually called it when they
carried the swag. Also another side note to this interesting song/poem(and
obviously well studied in Australian Schools :D) is the variations in the
song/poem. The variation I learnt started with ‘Once a jolly swagman camped by a
billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree’ The version you used is the
original text for the song written in 1984. But there are also a number of other
variations out there but these are the two common ones.
Anita
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Very cool idea for a vignette and well carried out. It expresses the feeling
and atmosphere of the song really well, the beginning is peaceful and this is
really well reflected in your vignette. I would love to see a series of
vignettes for the remaining part of the song.
On a side note Waltzing Matilda is what they actually called it when they
carried the swag. Also another side note to this interesting song/poem(and
obviously well studied in Australian Schools :D) is the variations in the
song/poem. The variation I learnt started with ‘Once a jolly swagman camped
by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree’ The version you used is
the original text for the song written in 1984. But there are also a number
of other variations out there but these are the two common ones.
Anita
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Hi Anita,
Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about continuing the song, or at least
the fun bits. Depends on my inspiration levels. This one grew out of a desire to
build some Australian trees.
As to the words: I think you’ll find the version I’ve used is the original
Patterson, whereas the ‘jolly’ version is the more modern song variation (it
fits better too) by Harry Nathan. I learnt the ‘jolly’ version in school
although I have heard the ‘once was’ version before too, probably while studying
poetry at primary school (ages 6-12 for non-Queenslanders).
The National Library of Australia actually has a nice website about the
poem/song here which I looked at
briefly if anyone is interested. Forgot to post it in the original post.
Tim
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In lugnet.build.vignette, Anita Eenink wrote:
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Very cool idea for a vignette and well carried out. It expresses the feeling
and atmosphere of the song really well, the beginning is peaceful and this is
really well reflected in your vignette. I would love to see a series of
vignettes for the remaining part of the song.
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Yes, I agree. It would be great to see it in the brick.
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On a side note Waltzing Matilda is what they actually called it when they
carried the swag. Also another side note to this interesting song/poem(and
obviously well studied in Australian Schools :D) is the variations in the
song/poem. The variation I learnt started with ‘Once a jolly swagman camped
by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree’ The version you used is
the original text for the song written in 1984. But there are also a number
of other variations out there but these are the two common ones.
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Also of note is the fact that there are at least 2 variations of the tune - the
commonly known version, which Olympics watchers probably heard a few times, and
the one I prefer, used by “The Seekers” when they recorded the song in the early
sixties, and often called “the Queensland version”.
ROSCO
FUT: .loc.au
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