“He was my uncle, my father’s elder brother.” Mr Savutila, a retired civil servant with the Department of Agriculture, says when his uncle was leaving for the Solomon Islands, he wrote a song for his wife. “The song is called Me yacova ni waqa na cina mai Bolatagane,” Mr Savutila says. It became a classic piece of Fijian music, popularised by the sigidrigi group Tegu ni Nakanacagi, a group from Nakini Village in the 1960s. The group was named after a hill called Nakanacagi that flanks Nakini’s western side, and separates it from the neighbouring Naganivatu Village.