From: Felipa Date: 19 Feb 23 - 12:10 PM

on 20 Feb 2011, Henry P. cited two Andy Irvine songs. Lyrics for Douglas Mawson are at https://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/douglas-mawson/
sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBKGjtuaRrE

Lyrics for Rude Awakening https://www.andyirvine.com/lyrics/Lyrics%20-%20ODLR2.pdf
sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuM0xIYIg4

If you scroll down, you can find Irvine's notes about both songs at https://andyirvinenews.wordpress.com/category/new-release/

ANDY IRVINE Old Dog Long Road – volume 2; I can only find the notes for DISC 2!

3. Love To Be With You (Andy Irvine) Andy Irvine: bouzouki & vocal
This started its life as a love song back in Ljubljana in 1968 and was converted into its present state for my album “Rude Awakening” in 1991. I left the chorus as it was but introduced elements of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1911-1913 with its tragic end for the South Polar party.

8. Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine) Andy Irvine: mandola & vocal / Rens van der Zalm: fiddle
Yet another song with Antarctic connotations. Shackleton’s expedition in 1915 to cross the Antarctic from one side to the other required two ships. The story of the ship Endurance, carrying Shackleton and his Trans-Antarctic party is well known as is the fact that his journey across Antarctica never even started. The other ship – Aurora – sailing with a support party to the opposite side to lay depots for Shackleton on the latter part of his long journey is not so well known. The officer in charge, Aeneas Mackintosh, made many mistakes, culminating in his ill advised decision to cross the sea ice before it had become stable. A blizzard blew up after he and a companion had started, blowing the ice out to sea and, in spite of subsequent searches, they were never seen again. I had an alternative couplet which I don’t sing here: –
“What a beautiful dish we will make for the fish
As we’re eaten alive by the sharks around us.”
One can only hope that they drowned before that happened.