Another Plea For Help With Song Info, Trying to find the names of songs/artist

[lvlinguist]

Hi there! I listen to Celtic Radio on and off at work and there are two songs that I can never seem to catch the name of the artist or song title when I hear them.

One is sung by a woman, and it's about a fox hunt where the fox is no ordinary fox.

The other one is a long, sad song about a man that went off to war, I want to say from Australia, and is reminiscing.

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Islesman]

If you can remember one or two lines of the songs that you are looking for and post them, I feel sure that someone here will know where you can find them

Several months ago I did just that and within 2 hours I got a result. I had been searching 20 years.

Good Luck.

[lvlinguist]

I found one of them! The war song I was trying to find is "The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda" by John McDermott.

Still trying to find the one about the fox hunt where the fox is more than a normal fox. I think it was the devil, but I can't recall any specific lyrics...

[lvlinguist]

Aha! Found the second one too: "The Black Fox" by Heather Dale.

[Islesman]

Well done, yourself.

It's nice when those niggling questions that one can't get out of one's head get answered.

[Islesman]

PS:

The song "Waltzing Matilda" that the band in your war song was playing goes something like this:

Waltzing Matilda Lyrics

Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Down come a jumbuck to drink at the water hole
Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him in glee
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'".

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Up rode the Squatter a riding his thoroughbred
Up rode the Trooper - one, two, three
"Where's that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?",
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me".

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

But the swagman he up and jumped in the water hole
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree,
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong,
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

[lvlinguist]

Thanks Islesman.

That's about a sheep thief, right?

[Islesman]

I'm not quite sure what the song is about. It appears to be written in Australian, a language that I am not qualified to interpret, sorry.

[lvlinguist]

It's close to English, but not quite!