A Pretty Little Song, for 'Pretty Little Joe' single work   poetry   "Who says Australian birds can't sing,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 1849 A Pretty Little Song, for 'Pretty Little Joe'
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Alternative title: My Murrumbidgee Parrot
Notes:

This version contains an additional verse which follows the first verse of the original Bathurst Advocate version: 'For lark or linnet, mavis, thrush,/Or blackbird clear, in brake or bush, You would not care a single rush -/Not you, my pretty Joe.'

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Botany Bay and Other Poems Joseph Gordon , London : Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co. , 1861 Z1170504 1861 selected work poetry London : Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co. , 1861
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 14 August 1861 Z1764859 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 8
    Note: With title: 'My Murrumbidgee Parrot'
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