Six Months in a Leaky Boat - wikipedia Six Months in a Leaky Boat `` 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 Songwriter ( s ) Tim Finn Split Enz singles chronology `` Dirty Creature '' ( 1982 ) `` Six Months in a Leaky Boat '' ( 1982 ) `` Never Ceases to Amaze Me '' ( 1983 ) `` 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 released as a single in 1982. The song is a reference to the time it took pioneers to sail to Australia and New Zealand ( hence the reference to `` the tyranny of distance '' - a history by Geoffrey Blainey ), and a metaphor that refers to lead singer Tim Finn 's nervous breakdown. The song was `` discouraged from airplay '' in Britain during the Falklands crisis by the BBC for reasons of morale - it was thought that references to leaky boats was not appropriate during the naval action in the war. Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Music video 4 Chart performance 5 Covers 6 Legacy 7 Notes 8 External resources 9 External links Track listing `` Six Months in a Leaky Boat '' 4 : 21 `` Make Sense of It '' 3 : 40 An introductory piece titled `` Pioneer '', written by Eddie Rayner, 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. This track also forms an introduction to `` Six Months in a Leaky Boat '' on its original album release ( on Time and Tide ). Personnel Tim Finn - vocals, piano Neil Finn - vocals, guitar Noel Crombie - drums, percussion Nigel Griggs - bass Eddie Rayner - percussion, keyboards Music video The video shows band members dressed in nautical gear as well as Maori performers practicing traditional Maori acts called poi. Chart performance The song entered the RIANZ New Zealand singles charts at number 31 on 13 June 1982, and peaked at number 7 for two weeks. It spent a total of 16 weeks in the top 40. Chart ( 1982 ) Peak position Australian Singles Chart # 2 New Zealand Singles Chart # 7 UK Singles Chart # 83 Canadian Singles Chart # 7 US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles # 104 Covers Canadian broadcaster and singer Liz Rigney covered the song for her 1999 album Chameleon ( as `` Leaky Boat '' ). The song was covered by UK rock band Marillion as part of their `` Friends '' evening at the Marillion convention 2007 `` 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. They also played the song during their set at the Sydney Sound Relief concert. 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. ( Leo also titled one of his albums The Tyranny of Distance, a phrase which he credited to `` Six Months in a Leaky Boat, '' though Split Enz had actually taken it from the title of a book by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey. ) 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, but the lyrics had been significantly changed to be about Captain Feathersword. Pop band Elle Rae ( consisting of Allison Robertson from The Donnas and her young sister Emily Robertson ) covered `` Six Months In a Leaky Boat ''. Legacy The song was voted the 5th best New Zealand song of all time in 2001 by members of APRA. The song was used as the funeral song for explorer, environmentalist and sailor Sir Peter Blake, sung by Tim Finn with accoustic guitar, at Blake 's service. Notes Jump up ^ The Q Encyclopedia of Rock Stars by Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, Dorling Kindersley 1999, page 938 Jump up ^ Charts.org.nz Jump up ^ Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970 -- 1992. St Ives, N.S.W. ( 1993 ). ISBN 0 - 646 - 11917 - 6. Jump up ^ `` New Zealand Charts ''. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 11. Jump up ^ `` UK Chart Stats ''. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 11. Jump up ^ `` RPM Canadian Charts ''. Retrieved 23 July 2011. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1998 ). Bubbling Under Singles & Albums ( 1998 ed. ). Menomonee Falls, Wis., U.S.A. : Record Research. p. 190. ISBN 9780898201284. Jump up ^ Cowie Recordings Jump up ^ http://www.livevideo.com/video/29C34F0D0A4C43D3A2F00F9CFF73BB89/six-months-in-a-leaky-boat-wi.aspx External resources Six Months in a Leaky Boat on YouTube External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Split Enz Tim Finn Phil Judd Neil Finn Eddie Rayner Nigel Griggs Noel Crombie Mike Chunn Miles Golding Mike Howard Wally Wilkinson Robert Gillies Geoff Chunn Emlyn Crowther Malcolm Green Paul Hester Lineup chronology List of Split Enz band members Studio albums Mental Notes Second Thoughts Dizrythmia Frenzy True Colours Waiata / Corroboree Time and Tide Conflicting Emotions See Ya ' Round Compilations The Beginning of the Enz Enz of an Era The Split Enz Collection 1973 -- 1984 History Never Repeats -- The Best of Split Enz Oddz and Enz Rear Enz The Best of Split Enz The Gold Collection Spellbound The Collection : The Best of the Early Years Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes Live albums The Living Enz Anniversary Extravagenza DVDs Split Enz One Out of the Bag Singles `` For You '' `` Sweet Talkin ' Spoon Song '' `` No Bother to Me '' `` Maybe '' `` Late Last Night '' `` Matinee Idyll '' `` Another Great Divide '' `` My Mistake '' `` Bold as Brass '' `` I See Red '' `` Give It a Whirl '' `` Things '' `` I Got You '' `` I Hope I Never '' `` Nobody Takes Me Seriously '' `` What 's The Matter With You '' `` Poor Boy '' `` One Step Ahead '' `` History Never Repeats '' `` I Do n't Wanna Dance '' `` Hard Act To Follow '' `` Iris '' `` Dirty Creature '' `` Six Months in a Leaky Boat '' `` Never Ceases to Amaze Me '' `` Hello Sandy Allen '' `` Next Exit '' `` Strait Old Line '' `` Message to My Girl '' `` I Wake Up Every Night '' `` I Walk Away '' `` One Mouth Is Fed '' Related articles Discography ENZSO Crowded House The Finn Brothers Schnell Fenster She Will Have Her Way WikiProject Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Six_Months_in_a_Leaky_Boat&oldid=800176723 '' Categories : APRA Award winners Split Enz songs 1982 singles Songs written by Tim Finn Falklands War 1982 songs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2012 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 11 September 2017, at 22 : 56. 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Question: who sang six months in a leaky boat
Answer: Split Enz