Children from Collingwood, Vic. tell jokes and recite rhymes for the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection

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Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-
Subjects
Children's songs, Australian.; Children's songs.; Wit and humor, Juvenile.
Contents
  • Side 1: Rhymes: Fat and Skinny (two versions)
  • Captain Cook chased a chook (two versions)
  • See my finger, see my thumb
  • Do you want to come to my party
  • Open the lid and stick your finger in
  • I'm from Mars. Jokes about: Four people in the aeroplane
  • New Australians learning English (two versions). Rhymes: Going down the highway doing 94
  • Ask your mother for sixpence. Joke about three mice. Can you keep a secret? (rhyme)
  • Side 2: On top of old Smokey (parody)
  • There once was a man from Horsham (limerick)
  • Deb, Deb, she had a head
  • Helen, Helen was always yellin
  • There once was a man from Cape (limerick)
  • There once was a man and his name was Jed
  • Come to Collingwood
  • She was coming round the mountain (different version)
  • Shirley Temple is a star
  • The night was dark and gloomy
  • Captain Cook chased a chook
  • Fat and Skinny (three versions)
  • Captain Cook did some poop
  • Cinderella dressed in yella
  • First comes primary, then comes high
  • Roses are red, violets are blue (various versions)
  • Red, white and blue
  • Vote, vote, vote for Sylvie
  • My mother punched your mother in the mouth
  • Hicky, hocky
  • Running through the jungle with a tummy ache
  • Going down the highway
  • I'm Popeye the sailor
  • Well you smell
  • Look up, look down
  • I'm in the army now
  • Can you keep a secret?
  • Rah, rah stick em in tar
  • Glory, glory, hallelujah (parody)
  • Po kari-kari-anna
  • Who was learning English (joke)
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Children from Collingwood, Vic. tell jokes and recite rhymes for the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection [sound recording].
Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
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2000 English Sound; Recorded music 1

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