I also played in 'Flying Pieman' with Michael. It is often said amongst friends, that though he is now dead, he will not lie down.

Some of his finest lines are these, from 'No Man is a Stranger', also known as 'Sing Us a Song Boys':

"I am the gun beaten out of the shovel,
I am the riders out in the night,
I am the dingo you'll hear in the bush
And I never let go when I bite."

He turned up to a practice one time with a rewritten version with a whole lot of cliches, because he got it in his head that the original was a bit edgy. "Where is the flag of the diggers' brigade; Where are the riders, out in the night?" I credit myself with talking him out of it!

'No Man is a Stranger' was a song he wrote as part of a musical he was working on, never completed, which involved a couple of latter-day bushrangers who terrorised the bush, Bonnie-and-Clyde style, in an old Holden.