SECTION 11: Migrants
Ching Chong
Quoted Hal Porter Bairnsdale 1920s
Tune: Dan Tucker
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Chinee Cook
AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER 1875
87/599
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Anti Chinese ditty
Qld Examiner 1895
The advent of the cow
Will rid us of the Chow.
WA Proverb
Necessity is not only the mother of invention but the father of half-castes as well
On Chinamen
Pat Pong, John, Johnny etc, Chink, Ding Bat, Canary John…
Mad as a Chinaman
Meaner than a goldfields Chow
Awkward as a Chinaman on a bicycle
Sister Lilly
Supposed memorial notice
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Chop, Chop, Chop
From Robyn Ridley 1970 whose mother sang this ditty
as a child
in then rural Glenhuntly, Victoria.
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Chinaman's Track
From Spangles in the sawdust by R P Whitwoth, 1880.
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Street cry
Hobart town crier 1846
If I had a piece of pork
I'd stick it on a fork
And give it to a Jew boy
Jew boy, Jew.
Daly River Oh
Recorded Robyn Ridley 1970 (with apologies) different from S&K version
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Blacks
Ridley family
God made little niggers
He made them in the night
But he made them in a hurry
And forgot to paint them white
The AUSTRALIAN STAR. 1879
June 30 1877
Advice from the Palmer State (Qld) state that hundreds of Chinese are in the last stages of destitution and those hundreds more are pressing on to the goldfields. The Wardens ask for additional police protection, owing to the threatening attitude of the Chinese outside the camps.
This item is typical of the racist songs popular with Music Hall artists around the turn of the nineteenth century. Many were blatantly anti-Jewish and used 'long, hooked nosed' stereotyped and also placing the Jewish character as mean and financially conniving. All very ugly by today's standards and rightfully so.
Sail On The Rippling Stream
(topical song.)
Written by LANCE LENTON and Sung by CHAS MAYLOR
(Air—" Birds and Blossoms.")
AUSTRALIAN MELODIST NO 20
Mitchell library 784.8/A
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For "Nix," Not Me; For "Nix" I Bar.
AUSTRALIAN MELODIST NO 21
Written by Lance Lenton
[Parody on " Finiculi-Finicula.")
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FROM 'FORTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN NORTH QUEENSLAND' 1861-1905
W R O Hill.
Published Brisbane 1907.
This interesting book also had a chapter on the great fight between Heenan & Sayers – I have collected two songs on this fight. (Refer AFU – Joe Watson and Cyril Duncan)
The following song was composed and sung by the author at a charity concert in Cooktown about 1878. It is typical anti-Chinese.
The Palmer Local
Tune: The Abyssinian Girl
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Shop Here Before the Day Goes
Recorded by W Fahey in 1978 from a senior citizens in Paddington
A Paddington deli owner, frustrated by his customers shopping at the new Italian corner store (circa 1960s) placed a large sign on his window declaring 'Shop here before the Day Goes'. He made the front page on the daily newspapers.
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