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You're Top Poster: #2 | Midnight Oil's In the Valley: Quote:
The sinking of the ship also touched another prominent Australian many years later. Peter Garrett's grandfather Tom was also killed and the loss prompted the former lead singer of Midnight Oil to write about it in his 1990s hit "In the Valley".
His opening line is: "My grandfather went down with the Montevideo … the rising sun sent him floating to his rest".
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