Here's a delightful little ditty that has been buried deep in the forum database. It was posted and collected by Joybell, a lady who used to post prolifically to Mudcat. She explained:

I believe it deserves its own thread and a place in the DT. It's a Melbourne song probably from around the early 1900s. I learned it from an elderly man, in about 1984, in a pub in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He called it an old Melbourne song. He used the title "Push on the Corner". A friend, Jack Johnson, recorded an almost identical version from an elderly man in a Melbourne nursing home. My informant told me he wanted me to have the song because I was "a Collingwood Lassie". He added that he meant not of the type described in the song. These two appearances of the song are the only ones I've come across. It sounds like somebody's music-hall turn.

THE PUSH ON THE CORNER

Last night I was driven near crazy
By one I both love and adore
Now she's packed up her boxes and left me
And I ain't gonna see her no more
I've written her hundreds of letters,
To beg her my faults to forget
But now she's found one she loves better
And this is the answer I get

Oh, wait till the push on the corner
Refuses to drink a long beer
Wait till the thieves and pickpockets
From the streets of Fitzroy disappear
When the dear little Collingwood lassies
rom powder and paint they are free
When the Chinese are coppers on Bourke Street
My darling I'll come back to thee

The tune may be found on a beaut CD O'Leary & Hildebrand 'Together Again, Again'

--Stewie