"Tenterfield Saddler" is a song written by Peter Allen in 1970. It was released in 1972 as the second single from his second studio album of the same name. "Tenterfield Saddler" tells the moving story of the musician's life, from his much-loved grandfather,

George Woolnough George Harewell Woolnough (10 February 1884 – 13 December 1963) was a saddler in Tenterfield, New South Wales from 1908 until his retirement in 1960. Woolnough's grandson was Peter Allen, a flamboyant cabaret singer who immortalised Woolnough w ...

, his troubled relationship with his father and moving to New York to marry

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, "a girl with an interesting face". The lyric "been all 'round the world and lives no special place", is compared to a lyric of another of his songs, "no matter how far or how wide I roam, I still call Australia home" in "

I Still Call Australia Home "I Still Call Australia Home" is a song written by Peter Allen in 1980. In it, Allen sings of Australian expatriates' longing for home. Significance to Australian culture It has been used to signify Australian patriotism and nostalgia for hom ...

Charts

"Tenterfield Saddler" made its ARIA chart debut in September 2015 following the screening of the Peter Allen Australian mini-series, '' Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door''.

Cover versions

* In 1993,

Rick Price Rick Allan Price (born 6 July 1961) is an Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. His debut album, '' Heaven Knows'', was released in July 1992, and peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It provided tw ...

performed a live tribute to Allen at the

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. This version was later included on his 2004 album, ''The Essential Collection''. * In 1996

Colleen Hewett Colleen Hewett (born 16 April 1950) is an Australian singer and actress. Hewett's top 40 singles on the Kent Music Report include "Super Star", " Day by Day" (both 1971), " Carry That Weight" (1972), "Dreaming My Dreams with You" (1980) ...

covered the song on her album, '' Tenterfield Dreams''. * In 2002,

Olivia Newton-John Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top-ten singles, including 5 number-one singles on the ...

covered the song (with Peter Allen) for her album, '' 2''. * In 2004,

Hugh Jackman Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, he landed his breakthrough role as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine in the 20th Century Fox ''X-Men'' film series (2000–2017), a role ...

recorded the song for ''

The Boy from Oz ''The Boy from Oz'' is a Australian jukebox musical based on the life of singer and songwriter Peter Allen, featuring songs written by him. The book commissioned for the musical is by Nick Enright, based on Stephen MacLean's 1996 biography of ...

'' Broadway Cast Album. *In 2007,

Lee Kernaghan Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964) is an Australian country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily deri ...

covered the song on his album, ''

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''. * In 2015,

John Farnham John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Enc ...

and Olivia Newton-John sang a duet on their album ''

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'' that they performed on the tour in 2015.

References

{{Rick Price 1970 songs Australian country music songs Song recordings produced by Richard Landis A&M Records singles