Well that's not too bad, as folk processing goes. I imagine Kendall learned it from Gordon Bok, who recorded it in 1990 on "Return to the Land" (on Folk-Legacy). Gordon's notes on the printed lyric booklet (thank you, Sandy and Caroline Paton!) credit Paul Metsers with the words and music and say: "From a tape sent to me by Larry Carpenter, now of Minnesota, who, with his wife, Grace, worked in New Zealand and who has given me many fine songs and tapes from that area." I guess that's the same tape Jacko has. (Oh, and "minah" -- or "myna", as Gordon's lyric has it -- is actually spelled "mynah".)

Aloha,
Mark