In 1999, Neeson performed the song during a "Tour of Duty concert" for Australian troops in East Timor. The audience responded with the chant while Australia's Governor-General, then commander of the INTERFET forces in East Timor, Peter Cosgrove, East Timorese spokesman Jose Ramos Horta and Roman Catholic Bishop Belo were in attendance. When asked by Bishop Belo what the crowd was singing, Cosgrove responded "Well Lord Bishop I really can't quite make it out," adding in a retelling of the story, "Then Ramos Horta looked at me and I could tell that he could make it out!"