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TIL "Waltzing Matilda" is Australian slang for traveling on foot with a bundle of belongings. In the 1895 song an itinerant narrator takes a stray sheep for dinner, and after a pursuit by lawmen he drowns in a watering hole and becomes a ghost.

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