when ifirst looked at the song aussie barbeque my computer said that eric bogle first wanted the tune to be the streets of laraedo. he said in 1969 that it would be to slow for a summer song like this. the tune he came up wif in the end was a tune that had its roots in edinburgh called maggir cockabendie. eric bogle was born in peebles south of edinburgh on the way to the borders and stayed mostly in australia.