Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo

Subject: Lyr Add: MY HOME IN WOOLLOOMOOLOO
From: allanwill
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 01:41 AM

This is more of interest to Ozcatters, however...

I am transferring an old ABC concert of the Larrikins from tape to CD and I am 12 seconds over the 80 minute limit (with no pause).

I decided to delete this little ditty, which I call

MY HOME IN WOOLLOOMOOLOO

I paid a franc to see
a fair tattoed lady.
And right across her jaw
were the words "Great ANZAC Corp".

And on her chest was a possum
and a great big kangaroo.
And on her back was a Union Jack
and it was painted Red, White and Blue.

A map of Germany
was where I hadn't been.
And up and down her hips
were a line of battleships.

And on her kidneys, and on her kidneys
was a birdseye view of Sydney.

And 'round the corner, 'round the corner
was my home in Woolloomooloo.


It obviously comes from one of the world wars and there may be something about the song on Warren Fahey's website (I haven't looked that closely). Hopefully I will fit it in on another CD somewhere but I figured, just in case I accidently delete it and it disappears into the internet ether, I would post the lyrics here for posterity.

Allan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 03:33 AM

It's on Warren's "Diggers - Songs of the Australians at War"(Rouseabout/Undercover RRH42, 2007) under the title "I paid a franc to see"

do you want to change the title of this thread?

sandra

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 04:00 AM

It seems to be in teh generic clas of "The Tattoed Lady".

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 07:07 AM

"I paid a franc to see" collected from Warren's Uncle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Dec 07 - 09:44 AM

One of the rhyme pairs is missing in this verse:

A map of Germany
was where I hadn't been.
And up and down her hips
were a line of battleships.

The way I've heard it was more like:

A map of Germany
was in a place I could not see,
And up and down her hips
were a line of battleships.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Home in Woolloomooloo
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 01 Jan 08 - 06:01 AM

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