And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

The iconic song about the Battle of Gallipoli, written by  Eric Bogle in 1972 at the height of the anti-war movement, re-imagined by esteemed children’s illustrator Bruce Whatley.        But the band played ‘Waltzing Matilda’ when we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs; then we started all over again. nEric Bogle’s famous and familiar Australian song about the Battle of Gallipoli explores the futility of war with haunting power. Now Bruce Whatley’s evocative i…