WHY BANJO?
Jul 02, 2020
1 minute
UR NATIONAL POET is known to us all as Banjo Paterson. But why ‘Banjo’? Born Andrew. When he began publishing his bush ballads in magazine in the 1880s, he used the pen name ‘The Banjo’. But you mustn’t imagine he saw himself as a tinkling musical instrument: Banjo was his favourite horse!
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