Listen to this when
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
For the ones the parades forgot 🌾
Who it's for
Eric Bogle tells of a young Australian maimed at Gallipoli who returns home to watch his country slowly forget.
Forgotten and grieving→Witnessed
Feelings it meets
What it is
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is an anti-war song that Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle wrote in 1971 after seeing an Anzac Day march. It follows a young Australian who goes to fight at Gallipoli, is gravely wounded and loses his legs, and comes home to public indifference; in old age he watches the Anzac Day parades shrink as the veterans die.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Heads up: References to war, injury and death.
Age: Suggested 13+
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.Wilfred Owen, Poems, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
