G'day John,

This rings a bell - probably published in the Victorian Folk Music Club's old magazine Tradition ... sometime in the lated '60s or early '70s. I have a full bound set, as well as unbound copies of most issues, so I should be able to locate it at home and scan in the words for you.

I never got to the Nariel dances, when I was working in the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme and living at Khancoban (next town over the border into NSW) but I went regularly to the 50/50 dances run by Con Klippel's Nariel Band in 'town' - Corryong. The Nariel Festival was over a holiday weekend when I was likely to be back visiting family in Sydney.

I seem to remember that Tradition did a fairly large feature on the Nariel dances in the late '60s ... and some curmudgeon complained that they had "entirely spoiled" the magazine by featuring "an ordinary country dance"!

Anyway, if I find the song, I will post it from home in the next day or two.

Regards,

Bob Bolton