Editing Waltzing Matilda (section)

===Typical lyrics===
There are no official lyrics to "Waltzing Matilda" and slight variations can be found in different sources.<ref>For instance, compare the lyrics at the [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166639875/view?partId=nla.obj-166639888 National Library of Australia] to those at {{cite web|date=9 June 2007|title=Waltzing Matilda|url=http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/WMText.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609012614/http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/WMText.html|archive-date=9 June 2007|access-date=20 February 2017|publisher=Australian National University}}</ref> The following lyrics are the Cowan version published as sheet music in early 1903.<ref>{{Cite web|title=07 Jun 2011 – Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me? – Archived Website|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/5554-item19.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110606173517/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/34755/20110606-1326/www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/5554-item19.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-06-06|access-date=2024-04-19|via=Trove|language=en}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
<blockquote><poem>
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his "Billy" boiled,<ref name = SMH2002/>
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

''Chorus:''
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his "Billy" boiled,{{efn|Third line of chorus changes to match preceding verse}}
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved{{efn|1=Sometimes "stowed"}} that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

''(Chorus)''

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred.
Down came the troopers, one, two, and three.
"Whose is that jumbuck{{efn|1=Sometimes "Where's that jolly jumbuck"}} you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

''(Chorus)''

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong.
"You'll never catch me alive!" said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

''(Chorus)''</poem></blockquote>
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