Dan Morgan (bushranger) Under Arms", first published in serial form in 1882. Two biographies have been written about Morgan: Margaret Carnegie's "Morgan: The Bold Bushranger" (1974), and Edgar F. Penzig's "Morgan the Murderer" (1989). Banjo Paterson wrote the words of "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most famous folk song, to a tune played on the zither by the grown Christina Macpherson (who was the infant in the 1865 incident above). Morgan is referenced in the song "Billabong Valley" by Australian psychedelic rock group King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, released on their 2017 album, "Flying Microtonal Banana". Dan Morgan (bushranger) Dan Morgan (30 April 1830
Music of Australia bushranger verses often railed against government tyranny. Classic bush songs on such themes include: The Wild Colonial Boy, Click Go The Shears, The Eumeralla Shore, The Drover's Dream, The Queensland Drover, The Dying Stockman and Moreton Bay. Later themes which endure to the present include the experiences of war, of droughts and flooding rains, of Aboriginality and of the railways and trucking routes which link Australia's vast distances. Isolation and loneliness of life in the Australian bush have been another theme. "Waltzing Matilda", often regarded as Australia's unofficial National anthem, is a quintessential Australian folk song, influenced by Celtic folk