I was Principal of a school on a remote Aboriginal Community on the Nullabor Plains in South Australia when John Greenway visited in 1965/66. He accompanied an Australian anthropologist, Norm Tindale, and they were studying the music and culture of the Aboriginal group who had been relocated from their traditional land because of the testing of Atomic bombs at Maralinga.

John impressed me because he spent quite a bit of time at our school learning the children's traditional songs but more so because he offered to bring his guitar and sing for us. He kept the students, who spoke very little English, enthralled for an afternoon with his folk music accompanied by his guitar. The staff were also very impressed by his down to earth attitude.

I found this site because I've been hunting up a song he sang that day for our Christmas programme at church. He sang the English folk carol "The Sans Day carol' which has remained with me since and I have now found it again.