Hiya Jon It was Bernard Bolan's song. I saw him perform about a year ago at Newcastle (NSW, OZ) Folk Club, but I don't know his songs at all really. I cheated and did an internet search. Unfortunately I didn't find any lyrics but I found a couple of sites about him:

http://www.iq.com.au/~bolan/ (his own site)

"Bernard became famous in the 1970’s when his single The Rose Bay Ferry reached Number One on the Australian Top 40 Charts. He then produced 3 best selling albums. http://www.comu.net.au/clubs/gamc/july98.htm A Gippsland site advertising one of his concerts.

I went to the Elizabeth Hotel once. I wasn't living in Sydney so it was only once.

Helen