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
Matilda (song) the song in 1962 as "Twistin Matilda, (And the Channel)", which changed the lyrics of the verses as well as the chorus to: "She took the money and ran off to Las Vegas." The song hit number 22 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 Charts. Allan Sherman recorded a variation of the song in his first album, 1962's "My Son, the Folk Singer", and put a Jewish-sounding spin on it, including asking portions of his audience (such as "Members of Hadassah") to sing along: Sherman got sued from the estates of the writer of the song, for not asking permission beforehand,