David,
When I was a very small girl my local radio station in New Zealand played a recording of this one at least once a week. I have always loved it. Not quite as much as I loved "There's a lighthouse shines across the bay" but almost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2GcMM48WA
(It was an OLD record then you nasty people ;-)
Back to "The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God". It is very like some early Australian narrative poems. "Mad Carew" or Indiana Jones. The boy's own adventure in the far flung colonies. Wonderful dramatic piece and a great example of the genre.
Here's "The Man From Snowy River" Not a dramatic poem in the same sense but the style is similar:
http://uqconnect.net/~zzdmcana/Man_F...iver_poem.html