Children's rhymes, jokes and songs from the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne for the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection

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Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-
Subjects
Children's songs - Australia.; Humor in children - Australia.; Humor in children - Victoria - Melbourne.
Contents
  • Side 2: Pop-eye, the sailorman
  • Tarzan swings
  • The Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew (joke)
  • Two men with the long thing and the man with the small thing (joke)
  • Under the bamboo
  • Have you ever ever in your long legged life
  • Teddy bear, hop, hop, hop
  • Red white and blue
  • Jack and Jill went up the hill
  • Hitler had only one brass ball
  • Harry what have you done to me?
  • Coomela vista
  • The boy stood on the burning deck (two versions)
  • Shirley Temple is a star
  • Charlie Chaplin is a star
  • Mary was on the dancing floor
  • The night was dark and stormy
  • Chapter one, one, one
  • Going down the highway (two versions)
  • Listen to a story about a man named Jed
  • They called him knobby all
  • The goat slid on the grass
  • Dominic, inic, inicker had a forty four foot dicker
  • They walked the lane together
  • A man's occupation
  • The captain's name was Ugger (from the Good Ship Venus)
  • smart definitions, riddles etc.
  • Georgy porgy
  • Mary, Mary
  • Auntie Mary had a canary
  • Cock-a-doodle-doo
  • Hey diddle (another version).00000000000.
  • Side 2 (continued): Jews, Catholics, Protestants etc. (joke)
  • Why you shouldn't go to bed with a basketball player (joke)
  • The elephant who gives wishes (joke)
  • The proposal of the Prince to Cinderella (joke). Boys' rhymes from the inner South-Eastern suburbs: Three German officers crossed the line
  • The old brown cow
  • Carlton Bitter, Carlton Bitter
  • Charlotte the harlot, lay dying
  • Mary had a little bike
  • Little Miss Muffet
  • Two grass hoppers (joke)
  • Mary Mary quite contrary (another version)
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Children's rhymes, jokes and songs from the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne for the Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection [sound recording].
Wendy Lowenstein Australian folklore and social history collection
1 digital audio tape.
1969 English Sound; Recorded music 1

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