On the same album, Second Wind, Peter recorded his setting of Lawson's poem, "The Bush Girl." In the liner notes Peter commented, "My father, who spent some time as a 'jackaroo' on a New South Wales sheep station in the 1920s, tried to interest me in the verses of Henry Lawson, but it never 'took' until I toured Australia in 1980. After that I rethunk, and noticing the long shadow of Rudyard Kipling over many of his pieces, I set several Lawson poems to music. The tender BUSH GIRL and the bizarre GLASS ON THE BAR seemed my most successful efforts."

Regards,
John