Little Tommy Pinkerton

DESCRIPTION: "Little Tommy Pinkerton, the fat by, Went to see his uncle Brown" who gave him half a crown. Tommy uses it to buy "six lemonades and a dozen ginger beer" -- and explodes. Now they need a tombstone for "Tommy's fragments."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1954 (Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
KEYWORDS: humorous food death
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 32, "Little Tommy Pinkerton (1 text, 1 tune) (p. 16 in the 1972 edition)
RECORDINGS:
Barbie Colquhoun, "Little Tommy Pinkerton" (on NZSongYngCntry)
NOTES [33 words]: The notes in Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry compare this to an American poem, "There's Another Harp Hanging in the Sky." but not even Google recognizes this, at least by that title. - RBW
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File: Colq016

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