"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" is a single from New Zealand art rock group Split Enz's album Time and Tide. It was written by Tim Finn and Split Enz and released as a single in 1982. Despite rumours that the song was a comment on the 1982 Falklands War, it was not. The song was written and recorded a month before the invasion; the title metaphor refers to lead singer Tim Finn's nervous breakdown.[1] However, the song was "discouraged from airplay" in Britain during the Falklands crisis by the BBC for reasons of morale - widely reported as having been banned in the Australasian media.^[1]^[2] It is sometimes seen by New Zealanders as a patriotic song^{[citation needed]}, primarily because of the lyrics 'Aotearoa, rugged individual / Glisten like a pearl / At the bottom of the world'.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Covers
4 Notes
5 External resources

[edit] Track listing

"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" 4:21
"Make Sense of It" 3:40

An introductory piece titled Pioneer appears before the song on the Australian and New Zealand release of History Never Repeats - The Best of Split Enz. This track is not present on the American release.

[edit] Personnel

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"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" was covered by Australian indie rock band Little Birdy, and appears on the 2005 compilation album She Will Have Her Way.
San Francisco indie rock quartet Winechuggers covered the song on their 2005 album Grand Rapids.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists covered the song on their album Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead.

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[edit] External resources

Six Months in a Leaky Boat at YouTube

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