04681cjd a2200445 a 4500001000800000005001700008007001500025008004100040019001300081033001300094035001200107040001800119042000900137043001200146100003400158245018500192260001000377300004000387306001100427440003500438505135200473505041301825506006202238518005002300520002502350520099202375520034203367555002503709600004303734650005703777650006203834650004703896650007203943650006604015656001904081656002304100700002904123700003204152773005104184111925620080618162739.0ss lmnjlbmnnnu031104s2003 xx nnn eng 1 a2508951500a20030903 a1119256 aANLbengdANL aanuc au-at-ne1 aMcDonald, Daphne,d1914-4ive10aDaphne McDonald, retired teacher, discusses her life, recites poetry and sings folksongs of a bygone erah[sound recording] /cinterviewer, Rob Willis; recorded with Bruce Cameron. c2003. a2 digital audio tapes (ca. 94 min.) a013400 0aRob Willis folklore collection2 aTAPE 1 Singing: The banks of Allan Water (fragment) -- Recitation: The banks of Allan Water (song) -- Singing: This is the end of a perfect day (fragment) -- We don't want to loose you- Boer War (fragment) -- repeated -- Just before the battle mother (fragment) -- Do not trust him, gentle maiden (fragment) -- Recitation: The passion flower (song fragment) -- Singing: The passion flower -- The wearing of the green (fragment) -- The dear little shamrock (fragment) -- They call it Ireland (fragment) -- The dear little shamrock (fragment) -- Tell me pretty maiden from Flora Dora (fragment) -- A bachelor gay (fragment) -- Conversation: intro and story of poem, Brave Gellert -- Recitation: Somebody's mother (poem) -- Old mother flipper flopper (not known as a song) -- Conversation: story of song Barbara Allen -- Singing: The little brown thrush (song repeated) -- Conversation: Fire on the mountain (playground game, details explained) -- Rookety Coo (hand action game) -- There's a cabin in the mountains (rhyme demonstrated) -- Tiny tapping in the night (elves and shoemakers game) -- finger play -- This in mother's knives and forks (rhyme demonstration) -- This is the church and this is the steeple (rhyme demonstration) -- How do you, my comrade (skipping rhyme) -- Jump Jim Crow song and description of dance -- Singing: Jump Jim Joe.2 aTAPE 2 Singing: The wearing of the green -- Little bluebell -- Yellow daffodilly -- In the heart of a seed (action song) -- Down came the raindrops -- A frog he would a wooing go -- Hey ho said Rowley -- fragment from Don Giovanni (song in translation) -- unidentified Teacher's College song (fragment) -- I'm glad to meet you -- Once a jolly student (fragment) -- Swatting in the Library (W. Matilda parody) aAccess open for research, personal copies and public use. aRecorded on Sept. 3, 2003 at Baradine, N.S.W. aFolkloric recording. aDaphne McDonald, born at The Oaks, near Camden, N.S.W. recalls her father, Thomas Seymour, a carpenter from the Burragorang Valley, N.S.W. and first lieutenant in WW I; her mother Ruth Mary Healey, born in Ballarat, N.S.W. who established a midwifery Hospital at Weerona, N.S.W.; her mother's music and the songs she learnt from her; circumstances which led to her and her sister living in an orphanage and convent for a number of years; her childhood in Wollongong, N.S.W.; her training as a Domestic Science teacher, at Sydney Teacher's College (1930); first posting as an infant teacher, bonded for 3 years to Boronia Park, Sydney; posting to Baradine, N.S.W. at 21 years of age to teach a combined kindergarten, 1st & 2nd class totaling 60 children (1935); teaching post at Balgowrie, N.S.W. (1940); memories of air raid sirens; a great number of children's games and rhymes learnt during her time a teacher; teaching in the Illawarra region, N.S.W. on 35 shillings per week (1934) aMcDonald recalls the Undesirable Climate Allowance payable for working at Baradine; social activities at Baradine, such as walking, golf, Bachelor & Spinster Balls; types of dances performed at balls; fires in Baradine; general stores and community life in Baradine (1930s onwards); Baradine School; return to work as a Librarian (1960s)0 aTimed summary (5 p.)10aMcDonald, Daphne,d.1914-vInterviews. 0aFolk singerszNew South WaleszBaradinevInterviews. 0aFolk songs, EnglishzNew South WalesxHistoryy1901-1945. 0aGameszNew South WalesxHistoryy1901-1945 0aTeacherszNew South WalesxSocial conditionsy1901-1945vAnecdotes. 0aNursery rhymes, EnglishzNew South WalesxHistoryy1901-1945. 7aTeachers2lcsh 7aFolk singers2lcsh1 aWillis, Rob,d1944-4ivr1 aCameron, Bruce,d1953-4ivr0 tRob Willis folklore collectionw(AuCNL)1862849