G'day Dug,

... In this case - Yes! If you wade through all the text / MIDItext / notes in my posting of 08 Mar 05 - 04:23 AM, you will see that it is clear that the only Australian-collected version of this song, before Warren's 4-stanza version, collected in 1973, was the 2 stanzas of the Freddie Bolton text, which permeated its way through the Billabong Band - to be first published in Singabout in 1957.

What Warren collected was a totally different version - like all Jim Cargill's songs, rather closer to the (American) original - but including a clearly Australian last verse. As far as I can see, it is this text that has been the popular one since its publication in Eureka ... but it is almost exclusively sung to Freddie Bolton's tune! I haven't heard Warren sing it - so I don't know if he would use the Cargill tune ... but there is clearly no plagiarism on his part.

Regards,

Bob