G'day all and John in Brisbane,

John: Sorry I didn't reply specifically to your posting ... I was trying to send personal messages and the site kept falling over.

I didn't include "The Pub With no Dyke" in my anthology, Singabout - Selected Reprints because the tune was well-known (and pinched off Stephen Foster!) and the new words were interesting, but I only had space for less than half of what I would like to have included.

The anthology is well worth the derisory price (after all, it's still priced in 1984 dollars) and we might just be able to find some late (vol. 5 & 6) original Singabouts but all the old ones have vanished. (I must admit that, at a recent cleanout off the Club premises, a number of duplicate copies were despatched to the dump - after checking with me - but these were all from the latter issues.)

I have a few complete reference sets in the Club's archive and library and can always photocopy anything required for research ... or even scan and/or image appropriate sections and attach them to an email! I also have put together a basic index to Singabout and another to Mulga Wire (our current magazine) as well as indexes to other significant magazines like Stringybark and Greenhide and Concertina Magazine.

These are all in the form of MS Works databases (fairly old version) and should be readable in most modern programs. I haven't indexed Tradition because the last issue was quite a good index. One of these days I will get around to scanning it and converting to electronic format (when I have some spare time ... should be sometime in the next millennium!

Regards,

Bob Bolton