G'day again Fred,

My email is probably being dealt with at your end as I write ... it was sent from home, so I'll look it up when I get back there (before ... or after ... tonight's Music Session, which I run at the Bush Music Club.

I'll appreciate whatever you can easily lay your hands on. I'm sure I can get the "dots" down - as I can play the tune and that just means telling my left-brain to pay attention to what the right-brain is happily doing! Your chords will help my mate Chris (the birthday boy) - he's a natural ear musician and picks up every nuance faster than anyone dependent on music - but he will have heard any number of secondhand versions of The Whale ... but probably not your original!

I have another get-together with his family at the Monday Night Bush Music Club session - his Dad (who was in a "bush Band" with me in the '70s) is a stalwart of the sessions (resonator mandolin! / guitar / fiddle) although he played button accordion and concertina back then. The kids who were always around when Rouseabouts pratciced over at John's place are all regulars at my session - Chris (guitar / banjo / vocals), his brother Mark (drums), sister Stephanie (piano / mouth organ / whistle / 'bluesy' vocals) ... and Chris's wife Margaret (vast range of rattly / shakey percussion / whistles / &c). We have anything up to 20 sessioners ... many of them 'beginners' (even if well into later years!) and the solid support of Chris and his tribe really ties it all together.

Regards,

Bob