Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Christina Rutherford Macpherson (1864-1936) is credited with having re-played a tune she'd heard circa 1895 which the Australian poet A.B. Patterson (Banjo Paterson) then set to words.'...& one day I played (from ear) a tune which I had heard played by band at the Races in Warrnambool, a Country town in the Western District of Victoria. Mr Paterson asked what it was - I could not tell him, & he then said he thought he could write some lines to it. He then & there wrote the first verse.'Thus was Waltzing Matilda written.. }
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- Christina_Macpherson abstract "Christina Rutherford Macpherson (1864-1936) is credited with having re-played a tune she'd heard circa 1895 which the Australian poet A.B. Patterson (Banjo Paterson) then set to words.'...& one day I played (from ear) a tune which I had heard played by band at the Races in Warrnambool, a Country town in the Western District of Victoria. Mr Paterson asked what it was - I could not tell him, & he then said he thought he could write some lines to it. He then & there wrote the first verse.'Thus was Waltzing Matilda written.".