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Thread #18886   Message #3069053
Posted By: GUEST,Tony in Darwin
07-Jan-11 - 01:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Battler's Ballad (J.Wright/M.O'Rourke)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Battler's ballad
G'day Bob,

Almost 11 years on, we're getting ready to record this song and I was just checking that I had the words right.

The tune Mike O'Rourke used was yet another variant of William Shakespeare Hayes' "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane". Mike also wrote Poison Train, which we're also recording.

Mike originated in Atherton, Queensland, I believe, and wrote some great songs about that part of the world. Try and find Helen Rowe singing TI Woman.