Queensland owes most of its development to the sugar industry which produced some interesting folk songs, moost lamenting the bad conditions of the cane-fields . . the first time white people had had to work in a tropical zone. Songs like "The Cane-Cutters' Lament" and "Cain Killed Abel - And Cane Will Kill Me" recollect the past. This program also looks at the other aspects of the North.

The songs included in the program are:

Moreton Bay - Declan sings and plays guitar
Out on the Isis River - Declan sings and plays guitar
Cane Killed Abel - Declan sings and plays banjo
If You Ever Go Up North - Declan sings unaccompanied
Down on the Daly River-o - Spoken Peter
Maranoa Drovers - Declan sings and plays guitar
On The Queensland Railway Line - Declan sings and plays guitar
The Overlanders - Declan sings and plays banjo.