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Aussi, Aussi, Aussi (Sports Chant) 
Australians Let Us BBQ (Christmas Song)
Babes in the Woods (Traditional Song)
Botany Bay (Traditional Song) 
MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Click Go the Shears (Traditional Song)
Deck the Sheds (Christmas Song) Midi
Midi G'day MP3
I Still Call Australia Home (Traditional Song)
Jingle Bells (Australian Version #1) (Christmas Song)
Jingle Bells (Australian Version #2) (Christmas Song)
Jingle Bells Verse for Preschoolers (Christmas Song)
My Lord & My Lady Went Out in The Park (Lap Rhyme)
One Potato, Two Potato (Counting-out Rhyme)
On the First Day of Christmas (Australian Version) (Christmas Song) Midi
Midi Peanut Butter Midi
Six White Boomers (Christmas Song)
The Sea (Hand Rhyme)
Waltzing Matilda (Traditional Song)
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Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Australia:
The poem May Day by American poet Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) has lovely imagery. Though it seems to end on a melancholy note, you can think of it in light of appreciating the time on earth we have? MP3 of May Day May Day A delicate fabric of bird song... Read more »
MP3 of The Dandelion The Dandelion by Mrs. E. P. Erskine "Oh, dandelion, yellow as gold, What do you do all day?" "I just wait here in the long green grass Till the children come to play." "Oh, dandelion, yellow as... Read more »
The poem The Sandman was written by 19th century poet Margaret Vandergrift. It?s about the mythological figure who throws sand in children’s eyes to put them to sleep at night. Below you can hear the poem recited and read along?. MP3 Recording of The Sandman The Sandman By Margaret Vandergrift The rosy... Read more »
Here’s a song called "Brother Come and Dance with Me" from a Librivox rendition of Hansel and Gretel. You can replace "brother" with "children" (or a child’s name). This little song and dance can help children learn coordination and how to distinguish left from right. MP3 of Brother Come and Dance with Me... Read more »
Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages. Here are some of the languages you can find links for… Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maori, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili,... Read more »- I recently received this note below along with an English version of the French song, Il était une bergère… Dear Lisa I came across your website when looking for the complete lyrics to "Il était une bergère", which my mother used to sing to me when I was very little. My mother, who passed away in 1992, was... Read more »
Bella Mama is a song we received from the Torres Strait Islands. The islands are north of Australia and south of Papua New Guinea. The lyrics to Belle Mama are very simple: Belle Mama Belle mama Belle mama eh Belle mama Belle mama eh... Read more »
I did the illustration below for one of the first pages of Mama Lisa’s World, about 15 years ago. At the time, the site was just Mama Lisa’s House of Nursery Rhymes. Everything in the frame above was larger and took up the whole screen… since then we redesigned to add more navigation. There is something... Read more »- The Best Thing in the World was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Below you can hear different recordings of it and read along with the poem… The Best Thing in the World 1st Recording The Best Thing in the World 2nd Recording The Best Thing in the World 3rd Recording The... Read more »
- Come get into the spirit of the Christmas holiday! Listen to some carols below… Boar’s Head Carol – Sung by Ruth Golding – Lyrics Here I Heard the Bells by Henry W. Longfellow – Sung by Megan Kunkel – Lyrics Here Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber – Sung by DL Pead Sleep Holy Babe – Sung by Ruth... Read more »
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