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Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes
HERE ARE SOME KIDS SONGS FROM AUSTRALIA

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Australians Let Us BBQ (Christmas Song)
Botany Bay (Traditional Song)  MP3 Midi
Deck the Sheds (Christmas Song)  Midi
G'day MP3
I Still Call Australia Home (Traditional Song)
Six White Boomers (Christmas Song)
Waltzing Matilda (Traditional Song)
 

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MAMA LISA'S BLOG

Conversations about the languages and cultures of the world,
especially the traditions and songs of children.

Here are excerpts from the latest posts from Australia. Click to read more...

 

Reading of The Gingerbread Man

I love the story of The Gingerbread Man! Here you can hear someone doing a nice reading of it on YouTube… Enjoy! Mama Lisa Share on Facebook and other services:

Can Someone Help with the Lap Rhyme, “Run run horsey with your long hair”?

Karla wrote: Hi, My name is Karla Wass. Recently my grandmother has passed, and as a child she would place us (15 grandkids + 10 great grandkids) on her knee and sing to us. Unfortunately, none of us could remember the name and she left so suddenly we were unable to ask her it. I [...]

A Collection of Nursery Rhymes

I've embedded this lovely book of nursery rhymes for you to enjoy! It's A Collection of Nursery Rhymes… Nurse Lovechild's Legacy (1916). Many of the illustrations are from the 18th and early 19th century Chapbooks. The book has been embellished by one of my favorite nursery rhyme illustrators: C. Lovat Fraser (1890 – [...]

ABC's in New York's Roads and Buildings

Rachel Young found all the letters in the alphabet using Google Maps in the buildings and roads of New York.  Young was inspired by the idea of Australian graphic designer Rhett Dashwood who made an alphabet of roads and buildings in the state of Victoria, Australia.  I thought the use of Madison Square Garden for [...]

Making Vibrant Easter Eggs, with Photos

This year we didn't have a lot of time for egg dying.  So we used a PAAS egg dye kit.  By the end we wanted to add a little extra pizzazz to the colors, so we put in about 5 drops of McCormack's Neon food dyes to the different colors of PAAS dye.  The colors [...]

Broken Rhymes

Kids love this stuff. Come to think of it, so do I! BROKEN RHYMES. Scold, cold, old. Skate, Kate, ate. Brink, rink, ink. Trice, rice, ice. Crash, rash, ash. Sledge, ledge, edge. It's from 1880… Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 . If you, your kids, grandkids or students think of any others, feel free to share them in the comments below! Enjoy! Mama Lisa Share on [...]

The #1 Song on This Date in History

  At ThisDayInMusic.com you can find out the #1 song on different dates in time… when you were born, when someone you know was born, on an anniversary, etc.  You can check for the top songs on different dates in the US, UK and Australia. The #1 song today, March 13th 2009, is Right Round by Flo [...]

Mama Lisa Now Has a Facebook Group

We'd love it if you'd join the Mama Lisa Facebook Group. You can post anything you'd like about your culture. You can post your own musical recordings or YouTube videos… Links to culture and musical sites… Photos of your country… Questions about songs or cultural issues… Anything related to World Culture and [...]

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: How High Can You Do?

In my last blog post, I gave a couple of variations of One, Two, Buckle My Shoe that go up to the number twenty. It's rare that this rhyme goes past that. When it does, it seems to be to play it as a ball bouncing game... how high can you go bouncing [...]

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Most people know One, Two, Buckle My Shoe up to the number 10. Here's a well-known version… One Two, Buckle my shoe. Three, Four, Open the door. Five, Six, Pick up sticks. Seven, Eight, Lay them straight. Nine, Ten Do it again. Some people know One, Two, Buckle My Shoe up to 20. Below is the version from Walter Crane's The Buckle My Shoe [...]

 
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A Note From Mama Lisa...

I always welcome new contributions of traditional kids songs, nursery rhymes and folk songs. Please CLICK HERE to email Mama Lisa if you are interested and write "New Song" as the subject of the email.

Also, if anyone would like to sing any of these songs in the original language, or play any of the tunes on an instrument, I would love to post a recording on Mama Lisa's World. You could send me an audio cassette or you could record it directly onto the computer and email it to me. Remember... you don't have to be a professional singer or musician to contribute!

 

 
 



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