Quite right, Kebroxu, I think I must have remembered the source incorrectly as the little drum Sydney Carter played looked African to me!

Here's links to a couple of pages with samples from Sydney's album Sydney Carter in Concert (recorded in Australia) In one snippet he explains that the meldoy is from a Greek dance, and in the other he says that for a Greek man to call a gril a glass of water is a great compliment.

Glass

Water

LFF