G'day John, Sorch & Tony,

I must have missed this, first time round. I have sung the song for the at least 35 years, so I must have heard it not too long after Don wrote it! I certainly would have it in my old (1965 ...?) copy of Don's small gem of a book I Can Sing!.

(Actually, I have always had in the back of my mind that the song is based on a bit of larrikin behaviour in the lunch adjournment of the 1957 Basic Wage Hearing, in the Arbitration Court ... and that Don wrote the song shortly after the event ... but I can't tell you where I have that from!)

The tune is pretty well the same as the one used by A.L. Lloyd for his setting of Henry Lawson's The Shearer's Dream.

Regards,

Bob Bolton