Скачать или смотреть Sammy Leary - Kauri Scow

Originally Published as a poem by New Zealand poet Joe Charles (1916 - 1991) later put to music by NZ folk song collector Neil Colquhoun (1929 - 2014) and published in his book "song of a young country" - This rendition however is not set to that music as personally I felt it was not the fit I was looking for....music is very personal after all.
The story itself is about one of a fleet of about 130 large flat-bottomed sailing ships that transported cargo - everything from unprocessed timber and stone to livestock, small goods and foodstuffs along Aotearoa's coasts and larger waterways from 1873 till about the middle of the 20th century, of all the ORIGINAL Scows that were built here only one remains in working rigged sailing condition, her name is Jane Gifford - built in 1908 by Davey Darroch in the town of Whangateau and can be found docked in the river that runs through the town of Warkworth north of Auckland city.