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Magoffin travels to Toowoomba to meet a Mr W. R. F. Bolton, Managing Director of Cobb & Co. at Toowoomba, whose recordings of the march 'Craigielee', heard by Miss Macpherson at the Warrnambool races in 1894, and the tune 'Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielee' confirm Magoffin's opinions about the origins of the tune of 'Waltzing Matilda'.
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Includes photographic reproductions of the music for all seventeen parts of the march 'Craigielee', the Irish folk song 'Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself', and the Scottish tune 'Thou Bonny Wood of Craigielee'.
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Subjects:
- North West Queensland, Queensland,
- Warrnambool, Warrnambool area, Western District, Victoria,
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