Good to know Robin is onto a good project - but mentioning it at the bottom meant I overlooked it at first, perhaps so did others…I have lost touch with the scholars in this area, I'm sorry to say, in other words those I knew have passed to the great archive in the sky.
Max in Melbourne
I confess CJDennis's Sentimental Bloke has always seemed to me a confection, ie secondary, compared with other items that feel 'more larrikin' and less journalistic...
May you slip back through your arsehole and break your bloody neck.'
http://warrenfahey.com/Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-18/sfp-18-Bastard-Bush.html
I'm at work (intermittently, interminably) on an updating of S.J.Farmer's _Musa Pedestris_, which will conclude with a section of Larrikin poetry. At the moment, this encompasses the following, and any suggestions for additions would be much welcome -- including particular poems by C.J.Dennis, whom I intend to get round to reading sometime.
If I were closer to Sydney, I'd look into the National Library, and check through the entire run of back numbers of _The Dead Bird_. Either the originals or the microfilm -- http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1921071. But alas, an ocean intervenes ... Unless someone would happen to be passing by there?
Robin
On 28/12/2013, at 8:02 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
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> From: Bill Wootton
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> Also some sort of larrikin triumphing against the odds, particularly well-bred odds.
>>>
>
> As in ...
>
> THE BASTARD FROM THE BUSH
>
> As the night was falling slowly over city, town and bush,
>
> http://warrenfahey.com/Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-18/sfp-18-Bastard-Bush.html
>
> I'm at work (intermittently, interminably) on an updating of S.J.Farmer's _Musa Pedestris_, which will conclude with a section of Larrikin poetry. At the moment, this encompasses the following, and any suggestions for additions would be much welcome -- including particular poems by C.J.Dennis, whom I intend to get round to reading sometime.
>
> If I were closer to Sydney, I'd look into the National Library, and check through the entire run of back numbers of _The Dead Bird_. Either the originals or the microfilm -- http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1921071. But alas, an ocean intervenes ... Unless someone would happen to be passing by there?
>
> Robin
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> 6. Larrikin Verse
>
> “Fanny Flukem’s Ball’ – c 1890/91: “Now, listen, rorty bummers …”
> From Graham Seal , The lingo – listening to Australian English, p. 43
>
> W.T.Googe, “The Australian Slanguage” -- 1898
> “'Tis the everyday Australian …” (From The Bulletin, 4 June 1898.)
>
> Louis Esson, Red Gums and Other Verses (Melbourne, 1912):
> “Back Ter Little Lon” -- Renie’s left er ’usband—eighteen months aw’y,
> “Jugger” -- Give the push the office …
>
> “The Larrikin’s Hop”: Did you ever see a larrikins' hop …
> From Melissa Bellenta, “Leary kin: Australian larrikins and the blackface minstrel dandy”
>
> WOOLLOOMOOLOO LAIR – pre-1895
> “On the day that I was born, it was a cold & a frosty morn …”
> http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=3254
> [Slightly edited by RH, 31.10.09]
>
> ‘Oh, my name it is McCarty / And I'm a rorty party' -- 1895
> Text from: Melissa Bellanta, “The Larrikin 's Hop: Larrikinism and
> Late Colonial Popular Theatre".
> Original in Djin-djin, the Japanese bogie-man (1895)
>
> Henry Lawson, THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH:
> “As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush …”
> http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Henry_Lawson/19132
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> THE BASTARD FROM THE BUSH:
> “As the night was falling slowly over city, town and bush …”
> http://warrenfahey.com/Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-18/sfp-18-Bastard-Bush.html
>
> I'VE CHUCKED UP MY PUSH FOR THE DONAH:
> “I 'ave done with playin' fan-tan, and I've chuck'd the two-up school,
> http://warrenfahey.com/Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-14/sfp-section-14.html
>
> LARRIKIN DITTY:
> “Oh fare ye well gallant livers …”
> http://warrenfahey.com/Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-14/sfp-section-14.html
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