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
Waltzing Matilda record and comment on the events of the shearers' strike." A number of alternative theories for the origins or meaning of "Waltzing Matilda" have been proposed since the time it was written; however, most experts now essentially agree on the details outlined above. Some oral stories collected during the twentieth century claimed that Paterson had merely modified a preexisting bush song, but there is no evidence for this. In 1905 Paterson himself published a book of bush ballads he had collected from around Australia entitled "Old Bush Songs", with nothing resembling "Waltzing Matilda" in it. Nor do any other publications