G'day GUEST,Lynne,

I'm glad you enjoyed the words I scanned from An Ordinary Joker - the life and songs of Peter Cape. There are great resonances between New Zealand and Australian songs and traditions. I noted, back when I was compiling my Singabout - Selected Reprints books, some years back that the social notes in the Bush Music Club (Sydney) Singabout magazine, back in the late 1950s / early 1960s, often listed "record nights" at the home of some member or other ... and a "Peter Cape Night" turned up more than once!

I suppose that his song most widely copied / re-worked / carried off into the bush of Australia was She'll Be Right (indeed, I have composed a stanza of that myself ... commemorating odd happenings related to BMC group "busking" back in the late 1970s!) Over the years, I seem to remember at least 3 or 4 various parody / rewrite / blatant rip-off songs that unapologetically lifted most of Peter's tune / structure / general format.

Regards,

Bob