G'day Joe and All,

Alison didn't turn the page: there are three more tunes, written by Tony Miles (1981), Dave de Hugard (1987) and Mike Leyden (1964). The best known in Australia (at least with those folkies from the folk revival days) is the first version of Con Caston's tune - one remembered with fondness by those Bush Music Club members that courted (or were courted) with it.

I see from Chris Kempster's excellent notes that Priscilla Herdman (at the time of publication - 1989) lived in Pine Plains, N.Y. ... I don't know where the Canada reference crept in from.

Jon: Chris's book is out of print and I don't know if Viking O'Neill/Penguin Books ever plan to reprint. I have a suspicion that there was one copy left in the Bush Music Club sale stock, but I need to check that. The book is 224 pages ~ American quarto (11" x 81/2" trimmed size), sewn signatures thermo-bound in limp cover. There are about 100 of Henry Lawson's poems and about 200 tunesranging from those of orchestral composers (1) down to me (1) with a lot of good folkie's tunes (many of them Chris's) in between.

We have a range of interesting Australian songbooks gathered over the years and I'm about to send some off to Dan Milner (aka "Liam's Brother". the BMC is notoriously bad at commercial transactions, But I'm working on that. I will send a list of what might be interesting in the near future - perhaps to your personal page.

Regards,

Bob Bolton