Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback where Paterson ...

Joseph Jenkins - who lived the kind of life later immortalised in the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda" - came from Trecefel, Tregaron, in modern-day Ceredigion. The diary he kept each day ...