G'day all,

If my memory serves me right, another of HC Work's songs that supplied form and tune to both "real' old folk songs and 'Folk revival' ditties was The Ship that never Returned. This gives us an old Australian song from the timber game: The Man Who Never Returned, about a worker "bluing" his cheque ... and all the loafers waiting around until he comes back with another!

It also gave the political song that was revived and made popular in the '60s as The MTA Song.

Another bit of HC Work trivia is that he never "wrote" down Marching Thru Georgia ... he set it straight down in music type - being a music typesetter, when he wasn't writing songs.

Regards,

Bob Bolton