This has puzzled me since Malcolm has posted a link to a tune. I'll first digress about a pet theme of me, human memory, and then I'll give you the information. Skip the next paragraph if you want only the information.

My music is not where my computer is so it was not easy for me to compare the tune in Malcolm's link to the tune Margaret Barry sings. I cycled home with the tune in my head and then after the first listening both tunes began to 'merge' in my head. More puzzleing was that I was sure I had the identical tune with a completely different song somewhere in my tapes, LPs or CDs. I had the distinct feeling that the song started with 'It's of a...' Actually, it turned out that the song I had in mind starts with 'There was a...', but even the correct first words would have been not much of a help, they are just too common. I thought about that each day and yesterday all of a sudden I 'heard' the singing in my mind and I 'heard' two female voices singing together. After that it took me only about five minutes to say, confidently, Lal and Norma Waterson. Then it was easy, and here you go:

The tune Margaret Barry sings for 'Farewell My Own Dear Native Land' is not just close but practically identical with the tune The Watersons use when singing 'Wealthy Squire' on the 'True hearted girl' LP. I don't know if that helps, Finn (or Malcolm).

The tune Malcolm has linked to above is very close in line 4, and more or less off in lines 1-3. It's a matter of taste whether you'd call it a variant or 'related, but different'. In the notes to 'Wealthy squire' on Garry Gillard's Watersons pages is the information that the tune they sing is 'The girl I left behind' or close to 'We poor labouring men'. Both tunes are in the DT and are less similar to 'Farewell My Own Dear Native Land' than the tune Malcolm has linked to.

I don't know Queenstown Harbour but perhaps someone else can make sense of my information.

Wolfgang