Sam Larner sang this one evening at the Princess Louise in London (1958). He was the great old traditional singer that contributed so much to MacColl's "Singing the Fishing." I remember the almost Music Hall style of his delivery, with many broad gestures to the audience, a delightfully stagey performance. At the point where he sang "I entered the bush of Australia," the gesture was a hilariously obscene pantomime. His audience loved it!

I'm quite sure I also heard Bert Lloyd sing it, at one time or another, so it apparently had a long and lusty life in England, even before Martyn came home.

Sandy