SONGS 3

Governor Gipps

Fragment from 'City of Sydney Story of its Growth' by J Barry and pub 1902.
When he eats oranges he'll hand you out the pips
They'll grow if you plant 'em says Governor Gipps

In 1891.

Convict song. Port Arthur
Across the weary length of earth
And many a wide, wide sea
My soul springs back at one swift bound
My native land to thee.

Woolloomooloo Ditty Tune: Tipperary

Woolloomooloo Chant The SYDNEY FUN Monthly magazine Vol 1 no 15 1880

A Legend of Woolloomooloo

The Twelve New Wonders SYDNEY PUNCH 1865

Woolloomooloo

Toast

Tivoli Songster 1901
Manly for oysters
Balmain for shams
Woolloomooloo for big feet
Waterloo for dams.

Unpublished poem. DAVID McKEE WRIGHT Handwritten C832

Scratch My Back (Tune: Take me back to Bendigo) Allan Ratray's parody on his own original song. 1909 Tivoli Songster

This type of sentimental song was typical of the early music hall and interesting because of its references to Sydney landmarks such as Paddington's Oxford Street and the GPO (General Post Office)

Give My Love To Sydney Town By Grey & Bennett Imperial Songster 1909. This song had a set of 21 lantern slides 'Principal and new building of Sydney. Joe Slater

Billo Words P C Cole from the pantomine Jack & Jill by Bert Bailey 1919

Boarding House

Sydney boarding-house rhyme 1877 the aust Jnl.
Hold the forks, the knives are coming
The plates are on the way
Shout the chorus to your neighbour
Send the stew this way