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Thread #165421   Message #3967798
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Dec-18 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: Req: The Call of the North:The north is calling me
Subject: RE: Req: The Call of the North:The north is calling me
Hi, Ian - watch out for the lyrics on "Call of the North." The first version I posted is taken from a newspaper. It may or may not be the complete poem.

Note that the Wyndham-Read and Wongawilli lyrics are more-or-less the same, but differ on some points. The Wongawilli recording is quite easy to understand, but the Wongawilli Website has lyrics that replace the clear lyrics with what sound like garbled Australian placenames - and Wyndham-Read uses those placenames. So, who's right? I'm betting on what I hear on the Wongawilli recording.

-Joe-