Girls of Ulan, The

DESCRIPTION: "The girls from Ulan need no schoolin' For blucher boots are all the go. And how their hobnail boots they rattle On that hard and slippery floor, Like a mob of Queensland cattle On the rush at four...."
AUTHOR: Harry Lauder (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: clothes
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Meredith/Anderson-FolkSongsOfAustralia, pp. 213-214, "The Girls of Ulan" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown-FolkSongsOfAustraliaVol2, p. 291, "Ulan Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Australian girls are good enough for me"
Roud #22663
NOTES [80 words]: It's not entirely clear whether these two songs are the same -- particularly since both are fragmentary. The first insults the Ulan girls, and has no tune; the second praises them. One may be a parody, or they may be complimentary fragments. For the moment, pending fuller versions, I'm lumping them together on the principle that they're about the same subject.
Harry Lauder's original didn't mention Ulan, but it was basically a zipper song in which you could add any name. - RBW
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File: MA213

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