Six Months In A Leaky Boat
	Produced by Hugh Padgham and Split Enz
	Released on April 1982
	no chart information
	Find it at GEMM
AM 569 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

I always took this song to be an analogy for a six-month tour on the road, perhaps because it retains so much personal conviction and warmth after all the fussed-over touches. On the elpee (Time And Tide), this was introduced by a short, eerie prelude from Eddie Rayner (“Pioneer”) and featured a wistful epilogue at the end. The single version removed the two, cutting “Six Months” down to three minutes and change. The Canadian B side features the song in its original form, an unusual tack to take for a commercially available single (although not as strange as those Traffic singles that used to split the song into two parts).

TRACK LISTING

1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT
2. FIRE DRILL
   
   UK/US 7-inch single
   
1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT
2. MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT
   
   UK 12-inch single
   
1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT
2. MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT
3. HAUL AWAY
   
   US 7-inch promotional single
   
1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT    3:05
2. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT    4:11
   
   US 12-inch promotional single
   
1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT
2. HELLO SANDY ALLEN
3. NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME
   
   CAN 7-inch single
   
1. SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT (EDITED)    (Tim Finn/Split Enz)    3:18
2. PIONEER/SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT    (Eddie Rayner/Tim Finn/Split Enz)    5:51

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