G'day Brad,

I always presumed Martyn actually read the words in the Melbourne-based folk Magazine Tradition, where the poem was first published, around 1964, as a song (to Bill Berry's tune ... which is structurally very similar to Ewan MacColl's The Fireman's not for Me ... but sounds very different, due to tempo and the odd different note). However, given what one could earn from folksinging ... in Australia ... in the mid '70s ... maybe he was reading over someone else's shoulder!

Regards,

Bob Bolton