The following song, held in the National Library of Australia catalogued as TRC2539/008b, 
has been transcribed by Graham H Dodsworth from words
sung by Catherine Peatey on recording collected/recorded in 1950s & 1960s by Norm O'Connor.

Little Tin Soldier:
	1st Verse:
I was strolling one day down the lower arcade,
That’s a place for children’s toys.
Where you may purchase a dolly or a spade,
For good little girls and boys.
And as I passed a certain store,
Said a little wee voice to me,
‘Oh I am a colonel in a little cock hat and I ride on a tin Gee Gee.’

	2nd Verse:
Of tin Hussars and fibrous flesh in a manner of La Military,
Well the little tin soldier he rode at the head so proud of his tin Gee Gee.
Now that little tin soldier he sobbed and he sighed so I patted his little tin head,
What vexes your little tin soul I cried and this is what he said.

	3rd Verse:
I’ve been on this stall a very long time and I’m marked one and nine as you see.
While there on the shelf above my head there’s a fellow marked two and three.
Now he hasn’t got a sword and he hasn’t got a horse and isn’t half as good as me.
So why mark me at one and nine and him at two and three?

	4th Verse:
There’s a saucy little dolly girl over there and I’m madly in love with she.
But since they’ve marked me one and nine, she turns up her nose at me.
She turns up her little snub nose and me and flirts with two and three,
She turns up her little wax nose and me and carries on with two and three,

	5th Verse:
She’s always dressed in a beautiful dress, tis a dress that I do admire,
She has pearly blue eyes that open and shut and they are worked inside by a wire.
And once on a time when the folks had gone she used to ogle me.
Now that I’m only marked one and nine she ogles two and three.

	5th Verse:
Now cheer up my little tin man’ Said I, ‘I’ll see what I can do.’
‘You’re a find little fellow and I think it’s a shame that she should so treat you.’
So I picked up the soldier from the lower shelf and labelled him two and three.
And I marked the other one one and nine which was very very wrong of me.

	5th Verse:
Now that little tin soldier he puffed with pride for he’d risen in life as you see.
And the dolly never looks at one and nine but probably at two and three.