G'day,
In the fifties I remember learning English songs: D'ye Ken John Peel, The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Ash Grove (still one of my favourites). There was still a feeling in some circles that we were part of Britain. People who had been born in Oz & never set foot outside Oz talked about "going 'home' to the old country". I think the songs we learned in school reflected this. We learnt very few real Aussie songs, I remember Click Go The Shears, & we must have done Matilda but not much else.

In the thirties my mother learned Oh No John but it must have been a clean version (or she didn't understand the references).

Cheers,
Alan