Colin Hay

really think about it or talk about it anymore which is in fact the case no one talks about it anymore it's not interesting enough people are getting on with their own lives they love the song when I play the song I play Down Under every night not once has anyone ever come up to me and said oh that song doesn't really sound like Down Under without that flute line in it not one time has anyone ever said that

They love the song, you know.

Yeah, my father was... He knew what the truth of it was.

He knew the song was clean.

He knew that it had nothing to do with the flute line because I would go down and play them songs that I wrote.

I played them that song before I was in men at work and so he knew the song.

So he couldn't understand why...

It was such a, you know, expensive and horrendous litigation and indeed was very angry about it.

He kind of lost a certain amount of faith in the place that he'd come to, you know.

Oh yeah, he played my songs.

He sang my songs all the time, mainly to annoy me.

Did it?

No, it didn't annoy me, but he thought it would.

He would croon them.

He'd croon my songs to me.

I can't get to sleep.

That's one of yours, you know.

I don't know about that.

I was about 20 streets away from where he was born in Glasgow.

I was playing on a ferry on the River Clyde the night that he died, which was a very strange place for me to be because I don't play in Glasgow that often, hardly at all.