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Thread #11460   Message #4228188
Posted By: Lighter
07-Sep-25 - 09:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Roy Roger Um / Hi Ho Jerum / Hi Ro Jerum
Subject: RE: Origins: Roy Roger Um / Hi Ho Jerum / Hi Ro Jerum
According to the Saturday Journal of Adelaide, South Australia (June 4, 1927), the song was a staple of Australian Boy Scouts.

A fuller version of Young Buchan's "Detroitium" adaptation, above, appeared in the "United Automobile Worker," June 26, 1937.