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Posted: June 12 2014, 16:01

Sorry if I missed the discussion on this, but I just happened to play "The Song of the Boat Men" last week in the car and realized that it sounds a lot like Moonshine, particular when the guitars come in around 1:43.  This must be common knowledge because I just found the Hibernaculum wiki which mentions this "reuse."  I think it's interested to see where this song came from and I'm a big fan of Mike's similar themes running through different songs and picking them out.  My children seem to enjoy doing that as well.
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Posted: June 13 2014, 02:48

The melody in question is practically a copy and paste job. Both are even in the same key. Mike put words to the melody and that became the chorus to Moonshine.
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Posted: June 13 2014, 05:21

Yeah MotR does see a little more re-cycling than is usual.
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Posted: June 13 2014, 07:30

I don't really care how Mike came to Moonshine, I think it's a wonderful song, and my favourite track from Man On The Rocks :)
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