On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:15, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I admire what you say here, Max.
>
> But as they ‘celebrate’ Gallipoli, I have to say that the only response to it that gets to me is ‘And the band played Waltzing Matilda’…
>
> Doug
Oh yes, Doug!
I just looked on youtube
and the Pogues take it too slowly, I reckon.
Eric Bogle, the Scot-Aussie who wrote it in 1971,
takes it slowly, I admit,
and the several others who have taken it round the world and back.
best from Max in Seattle
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