Country music or the lives of bushrangers, swagmen, drovers, stockmen and shearers, continue to influence the genre. This strain of Australian country, with lyrics focusing on Australian subjects, is generally known as "bush music" or "bush band music". "Waltzing Matilda", often regarded as Australia's unofficial national anthem, is a quintessential Australian country song, influenced more by British and Irish folk ballads than by American country and western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet Banjo Paterson in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include "The Wild Colonial Boy", "Click Go the Shears", "The Queensland Drover" and "The Dying Stockman". Later
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda he was surprised to be asked to perform at a local folk club on the strength of the song. Bogle was born in Peebles, Scotland, in 1944; "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" was his first anti-war, which he composed after movng to Australia in 1969, and seeing his first Anzac Day march, while working as an accountant in Canberra in 1971. "The Vietnam War was still going on at the time, so there were lots of protests going on and it wasn’t nearly as well covered and as well attended and well regarded as it is today," he said.