G'day Murray,

I have this on Martyn's (re-release) CDUndiscovered Australia, Music Pangaea MP10002. Music Pangaea are are bit lax at credits so I have no idea whether the tune is Martyn's own or from somebody else. I doubt that it is a collected tune, as Martyn describes the (poem) source:
"Across the Warego Grahame): Yet another description of the vast Australian outback, this time by Jim Gordon of Creswick, Victoria who, for reasons unknown, wrote under the name of Jim Grahame. Originally intending to become a jockey, he ended up "jackerooing" (working on sheep & cattle stations) in the far west instead. In the 1890s he made a trip with Henry Lawson around the shearing sheds where, as evidenced by this song, the spirit of the outback certainly rubbed off on him."

Actually, the single credit Grahame) should suggest that the tune is also Gordon/Grahame's, but I can't find any other record of it and suspect that Martyn wrote a tune to a poem that caught his fancy. Certainly, the tune sounds typical of Martyn's style.

If you can't find a site for the lyrics, I can type them out (although your post suggests you may have a recording ...?). I don't think Martyn has a site with words or tunes ... or even writes them down for himself! For one of Monday Night Workshop attendees, I needed his tune for CH Souter's Irish Lords a while back and asked if he had them - and he did not, so I had to transcribe it myself.

Regards,

Bob Bolton