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The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman single work poetry humour "I'll sing a little ditty, which"

Author:agent Charles Thatcher

Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman

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Notes:

Publisher's note: "A New Parody on the 'Fine Old English Gentleman' as written and sung by Thatcher."

Notes:

Notes in Yellow Peril: Song by an unknown author, quoted by Hugh Anderson in Colonial Ballads. To the same tune as "The Flash Colonial Barman".

Appears in:

y Colonial Ballads Hugh Anderson , Ronald G. Edwards (illustrator), Ferntree Gully : Rams Skull Press , 1955 Z943064 1955 anthology poetry Abstract A selection of more than eighty Australian ballads, with music and narrative. The 2nd edition contains an index of song titles, a bibliography, an index and the following sections: (I) Street Ballads and the Bush; (II) Singers and Songs of the Goldfields; (II) "The Songs They Used to Sing"; (IV) Stringybark and Greenhide; (V) On the Far Barcoo; (VI) The Balladists; (VII) Folksong in Australia. London Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1962
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1962
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pg. 72
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y Thatcher's Colonial Songs : Forming a Complete Comic History of the Early Diggings Charles Thatcher , Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1964 Z243065 1964 selected work poetry Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 79-80
Appears in:

y Thatcher's Colonial Songs : Forming a Complete Comic History of the Early Diggings Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1964 Z911377 1964 selected work poetry Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 78-80
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y The Yellow Peril : A Squint at Some Australian Attitudes towards Orientals Bill Hornadge , Dubbo : Review Publications , 1971 Z944342 1971 anthology poetry column criticism Dubbo : Review Publications , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 51

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Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
1800-1899

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