Six Months In A Leaky Boat
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“Six Months in a Leaky Boat”
Single by Split Enz from the album Time and Tide
B-side	"Make Sense of It"
Released	1982
Recorded	1982
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	4:21
Label	Mushroom Records
Writer(s)	Tim Finn, Split Enz
Split Enz singles chronology
"Dirty Creature" (1982) "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" (1982) "Never Ceases to Amaze Me" (1983)

"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.¹² 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'.

Track listing

1. "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" 4:21
2. "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.

Personnel

• Tim Finn - vocals, piano
• Neil Finn - vocals, guitar
• Noel Crombie - drums, percussion
• Nigel Griggs - bass
• Eddie Rayner - percussion, keyboards

Covers

• "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 as a solo performance on their album Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead, and later recorded a full-band arrangement for their Sharkbite Sessions EP.
• Children's entertainers The Wiggles covered this song on their cd/video titled Wiggly, Wiggly World, with Tim Finn singing back up and appearing in the video.

Notes

External resources

• Six Months in a Leaky Boat at YouTube