Wayne Gillespie here the writer of Invercargill (a song about a man who mistook his wife for a car and so she left him to live in....Invercargill at the southern tip of New Zealand)
it is also available on my album 2nd album New Locations produced by Fairport Convention's Trevor Lucas in 1986.Released by CBS (NZ & Australia)
see www.waynegillepsie.com for details and online store.
My version has an extra 3rd verse written following a suggestion by producer Trevor Lucas that the song needed a a verse about the seller of the car drowning his sorrows; so my version is
INVERCARGILL (Wayne Gillespie)
That's right, there's a car for sale It's in good condition and motor is running It was my wife's before she went away She went to live in Invercargill
It's got everything you could ever need It's got bucket seats and the tyres they're radial She never said a word, I never thought she'd leave I just found a note on the kitchen table
(added verse): Come around we could have a drink I don't live far from the local It really must be sold this week Up to now I gues I was hopefull.
Don't really know what I can say The engine's small but it's got tons of power I know that we will never be the same Once we could do a hundred miles an hour
Starts well on a winter's day Seats look like leather but they're only vinyl She come home an see the kids in May But she soon went back to Invercargill
Did everything I could to make her stay I even got her a warrant of fitness It's been a year now since she went away She wouldn't even come home for Christmas
That's right there's a car for sale It's got a little rust but it's really not too bad Every day you know I check the mail But it takes a long time to get get here ....from Invercargill