by young men at Yirrkala in the late 1930s and was performed there for popular entertainment until the early 1970s. For local Yol\u audiences, "Treaty" has reintroduced the young to a fun form of song and dance that their parents and grandparents enjoyed in their youths while the song reminds older listeners a time before the advent of mining on the Gove Peninsula. On Tribal Voice (1992), "Treaty" is preceded by another historic djatpangarri item, "Gapu [Water]," which shares a similar melodic structure. Aaron Corn Mandawuy Comments This song was written after Bob Hawke, in his famous response to the Barunga Statement (1988), said there would be a Treaty between Indigenous Australians and the Australian Government by 1990. The intention of this song was to raise public awareness about this so that the government would be encouraged hold to his promise. The song became a number-one hit, the first ever to be sung in a Yol\u language, and caught the public's imagination. Though it borrows from rock 'n' roll, the whole structure of "Treaty" is driven by the beat of the djatpangarri that I've incorporated in it. It was an old recording of this historic djatpangarri that triggered the song's composition. The man who originally created it was my gurru\ (maternal great-grandmother's husband) and he passed away a long time ago in 1978. He was a real master of the djatpangarri style. Lyrics Well I heard it on the radio And Isaw it on the television Back in 1988, all