
Ada Crossley first performed this song at a benefit concert at Melbourne Town Hall in April 1889 and it was to become a regular in her repertoire. A reviewer at the time declared that this ballad ‘suited her sweet and mellow voice admirably’.
After Crossley moved overseas, she became a first point of contact for Australian singers in London, who would seek her out for advice and letters of introduction.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.