Along the Road to Gundagai

"Along the Road to Gundagai"
Song by Various
Written1922
PublishedAllans Music
Released1924
Recorded1923
Genrepopular music, country
Songwriter(s)Jack O'Hagan

"Along the Road to Gundagai" is a popular song written by Jack O'Hagan in 1922 and was first recorded by Peter Dawson in 1924, O'Hagan performed his own version later that year. Gundagai is a rural town of New South Wales. The song has had an enduring popularity in Australia. It was used as the theme to the Dad and Dave radio show from 1937 to 1953, and in 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) named it one of its Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

In 2007, Peter Dawson's 1931 recording of the song was added to the registry of the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia.