Hi Bob,

You'll have to ask Gordon Bok about this setting for the song because thats the way he recorded it. And as Kiwi tunes are fairly rare in these parts, (Central New York state) thats the onliest way I've ever heard the song.

I must admit the drama of the song does telegraph a little with the first verse as I have found it. But that is also as it is written on an NZ song site I found through a goggle search.

But then.....the way Gordon sings it it starts out with a sense of melancholy and it keeps it tite through the whole song. Anyone else may not have that emotion so well at hand.

Don