<Dl> <Dd> Bob Macpherson (the brother of Christina) and Paterson are said to have taken rides together at Dagworth . Here they would probably have passed the Combo Waterhole, where Macpherson is purported to have told this story to Paterson . Although not remaining in close contact, Paterson and Christina Macpherson both maintained this version of events until their deaths . Amongst Macpherson's belongings, found after her death in 1936, was an unopened letter to a music researcher that read "...one day I played (from ear) a tune, which I had heard played by a band at the Races in Warrnambool...he (Paterson) then said he thought he could write some words to it . He then and there wrote the first verse . We tried it and thought it went well, so he then wrote the other verses ." Similarly, in the early 1930s on ABC radio Paterson said "The shearers staged a strike and Macpherson's woolshed at Dagworth was burnt down and a man was picked up dead...Miss Macpherson used to play a little Scottish tune on a zither and I put words to it and called it Waltzing Matilda ." </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Bob Macpherson (the brother of Christina) and Paterson are said to have taken rides together at Dagworth . Here they would probably have passed the Combo Waterhole, where Macpherson is purported to have told this story to Paterson . Although not remaining in close contact, Paterson and Christina Macpherson both maintained this version of events until their deaths . Amongst Macpherson's belongings, found after her death in 1936, was an unopened letter to a music researcher that read "...one day I played (from ear) a tune, which I had heard played by a band at the Races in Warrnambool...he (Paterson) then said he thought he could write some words to it . He then and there wrote the first verse . We tried it and thought it went well, so he then wrote the other verses ." Similarly, in the early 1930s on ABC radio Paterson said "The shearers staged a strike and Macpherson's woolshed at Dagworth was burnt down and a man was picked up dead...Miss Macpherson used to play a little Scottish tune on a zither and I put words to it and called it Waltzing Matilda ." </Dd> <P> The song itself was first performed on 6 April 1895 by Sir Herbert Ramsay at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton, Queensland . The occasion was a banquet for the Premier of Queensland . </P> <P> In February 2010 ABC News reported an investigation by barrister Trevor Monti that the death of Hoffmeister was more akin to a gangland assassination than to suicide . The same report asserts "Writer Matthew Richardson says the song was most likely written as a carefully worded political allegory to record and comment on the events of the shearers' strike ." </P>

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