Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: R. March & Co., St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, London
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements, poems, and prose pieces. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918. Large format
Series Identifier: R. March & Co.'s Sole Right Edition 37
Title: Is it any injustice to England?
First Line: I was thinking tonight, as I sat in the gloaming
Authors: Williams, Charles
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Themes: Patriotism
Title: A health to thee, Tom Moor[e]
First Line: My boat is on the shore
Title: Pretty pond lilies
First Line: Whilst waiting in the lane for you, darling
Title: Stick to the whisky you're used to
First Line: To London repaired from the purty green Isle
Performers: Leslie, Fred
Themes: Irish - England
Title: Mary of Argyle
First Line: I have heard the mavis singing
Title: The Irish Italian grinder. Or, The Irish Mickey
First Line: You'd think by the style of my cost [sic]
Authors: Duffy, H.A. , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Themes: Organ-grinders
Title: He's gone
First Line: I'm going home, said a masher bold
Performers: Jones, Paul
Title: Dear love
First Line: I do not dare to tell thee, dear
Title: The horn of chase
First Line: To join the chase at break of day
Title: The brothers Maloney
First Line: The brothers Maloney were rollicking boys
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Sullivan, Rose, 1863-1895
Subjects: Ireland
Title: The English rose
First Line: Among the fairest flowers that Dame Nature grows
Performers: Robina, Florrie, 1867-1953
Themes: Patriotism
Title: They're after me
First Line: To be a man sought after ev'rywhere is rather sweet
Authors: Pink, Wal, 1862-1922
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Themes: Times , Nationality , Royal family
Title: Fairly knocked the Yankees in Chicago
First Line: I have always had a notion, I should cause a great commotion
Authors: Walsh, James
Performers: Tilley, Vesta, 1864-1952 , Stockwell, Walter
Subjects: Chicago (U.S.A.)
Themes: Emigration - Irish , World's Fair, Chicago
Title: Mutual pity
First Line: Tom, ever jovial, ever gay
Title: Welcome home
First Line: How sweet it is for wanderers
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: Songs of childhood
First Line: Songs of childhood! how they haunt us
Performers: Elliott, Meredith
Title: When the winkle man goes by
First Line: Say, boys, on Sunday what a treat!
Themes: Street traders
Title: Now then Molly
First Line: I live with my granny, in a pretty home
Themes: Irish
Title: That moved him
First Line: A quiet little street is mine, and quietness is right
Authors: Morton, R.
Performers: Rudd, Austin
Title: Little sweetheart, come and kiss me
First Line: Little sweetheart, come and kiss me
Title: Uncle Ned
First Line: There was an old nigger, his name was Uncle Ned
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Tit for tat
First Line: If you cross the hill by my father's mill
Title: Hi! Kelly!
First Line: Hi! Kelly! Hi! Kelly! Hi! Kelly! Hi! Kelly! Hi! Kelly! bring your boat
Themes: Boating
Title: When will you meet me again Norah?
First Line: When will you meet me again, Norah?
Title: They all take after me
First Line: Folks say I ought to think myself the luckiest of men
Authors: Connor, T.W.
Performers: Randall, Harry, 1860-1932
Themes: Irish , Family life
Title: Kate Kearney
First Line: Oh, have you not heard of Kate Kearney
Authors: Morgan, Sydney, Lady Morgan
Title: They say there is some distant land
First Line: They say there is some distant land
Title: Daddy wouldn't buy me a sweetheart
First Line: I'm not a silly sort of girl
Authors: Godwin, Will , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Forrest, Arthur, 1858-1908
Title: The wanderer's return
First Line: When, as a lad, long years ago
Authors: Atkins, Norton , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Title: Good health to the bridal pair
First Line: Myself and my relatives -- also the lodger --
Authors: Atkins, Norton
Performers: Reece, Arthur
Themes: Royal family
Title: If I hear that again I shall clear the court
First Line: Pray, usher, cry \"Silence,\" I now take my seat
Performers: Fairburn, George, 1864-1918
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Themes: Courts and law
Title: Dear old boy
First Line: What a lot a pals we have when we've got the rhino
Authors: McGlennon, Felix
Performers: Hylton, Millie, 1868-1920
Title: Where Liffey rolls its silver stream
First Line: Where Liffey rolls its silver stream
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Let Erin remember the days of old
First Line: Let Erin remember the days of old
Authors: Moore, Thomas
Subjects: Ireland
Title: How they do it
First Line: Have you ever watched the fellows
Performers: Leslie, Fanny, 1856-1935
Title: The wanderer
First Line: There's a grey-hair'd old woman who mourns for her boy
Performers: Farrell, Nelly, d. 1889
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Old England's a lion
First Line: Old England's a lion, stretch'd out at his ease
Authors: O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833
Title: There is a tavern in the town
First Line: There is a tavern in the town, in the town
Authors: Hills, W.H.
Title: His mother'll lose a son
First Line: A blackguard named Jack Hollagan's the biggest scamp in town
Authors: Brown, Tom
Performers: Caffery, Frank
Title: I'm not
First Line: \"Appearance is deceptive\" -- that's a truth you may declare --
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Boys will be boys
First Line: A pretty little boy was Ned, when quite a little nipper on my knee
Authors: McCarthy, Dennis J.
Performers: McCarthy, Dennis J.
Title: Paddy's pastoral rhapsody
First Line: As Molly the other day, sir
Attributation: Sung by the Author in his Irish Evenings
Title: Teddy O'Neal
First Line: I've seen the mud cabin he danced his wild jig in
Themes: Irish
Title: The blarney
First Line: Oh, did you ne'er hear of the Blarney
Authors: Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868
Title: Rich and rare were the gems she wore
First Line: Rich and rare were the gems she wore
Title: Cushlamachree
First Line: Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Kate O'Grady
First Line: They say that an Irishman dotes on three things
Authors: Osborne, Charles
Performers: Carney, Tom, 1859-1911
Subjects: Ireland
Title: The story of a kiss
First Line: The girl I adore is a charmer divine
Authors: Pink, Wal, 1862-1922 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Godfrey, Charles, 1851-1900
Title: Bold Robin Hood
First Line: Bold Robin Hood, was a forester good
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: The press gang
First Line: Sit round the galley fire, my lads, and listen while I sing
Authors: Watson, Michael, d. 1889
Themes: Sailors
Title: He's the man to win the day
First Line: When a trembling lover dies
Title: Hi, boys! hi, boys! or Uncle Joes spree
First Line: I, from the country came up
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Tilley, Vesta, 1864-1952
Themes: Countryman in London , Entertainments
Title: Guiding light
First Line: White crested is the murky sea
Authors: Bingham, G.C. , Henry, John
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: The emigrant ship
First Line: See yon vessel, in the harbour
Performers: Leyton, George, 1864-1948
Themes: Emigration
Title: Ivanhoe
First Line: Now ladies do not think for a moment I'm a single man
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Subjects: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Themes: Theaters
Title: \"Out\"
First Line: In the Gentlemen's bar at the \"Crumpet and Pig,\"
Authors: Wilmott, C.
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: I havn't made any enquiries
First Line: A young man who once heard me sing stood up and said
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: In darkest London
First Line: I don't see why old General Booth
Authors: Lonsdale, T.S.
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Subjects: Booth, William, 1829-1912
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: Don't run down the Irish
First Line: It seems to be the thing, tho' I
Authors: Williams, Charles
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Themes: Irish
Title: Voices of the past
First Line: To-night the bells of mem'ry chime
Authors: Lennox, Lindsay
Title: Love's rebuke
First Line: Ye hapless ones who say, \"Love's but a dream,\"
Performers: McKay, Iver
Title: The difference between east and west
First Line: Many people love the study of our fellow folk, mankind
Subjects: London (England)
Themes: Entertainments
Title: Sing, sweet harp
First Line: Sing, sweet harp, oh sing to me
Authors: Moore, Thomas
Themes: Irish
Title: A nice quiet week
First Line: Wilkins, and Winks, and Binks, and I, feeling our nerves undone
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Tilley, Vesta, 1864-1952
Title: She put it in her diary
First Line: Now once there was a maiden who was up to every move
Performers: LeBlanc, Marie
Themes: Seduction and abandonment , Breach of promise
Title: The pretty little girl that I know
First Line: There's a pretty little girl that I know
Performers: Coborn, Charles, 1852-1945
Title: Sarah, Sarah. Or a donkey cart built for two
First Line: I've got such a nice young man
Authors: Bedford, Harry
Performers: Carney, Kate, 1868-1950
Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: [R. March &] Co., St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, London
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements.
Series Identifier: R. March & Co.'s Sole Right Edition 117
Title: The signalman on the line
First Line: When the train is swiftly speeding on the metals tho' [sic] the night
Authors: Daly, Brian , Andrews, Bond
Performers: Celli, Frank H., 1841-1904
Themes: Railways
Title: One of the boys
First Line: There's a jolly little crew that I know
Authors: Maurice, George, d. 1903
Performers: Deane, Charles
Themes: Drinking
Title: Round and round
First Line: Have you never had the feeling when you started out at night
Authors: Castling, Harry , Venton, F.W., d. 1918
Performers: Hurley, Alec, 1863-1913 , Leighton, Harry
Themes: Drinking
Title: The society actor
First Line: I'm the fellow of whom you've all read
Authors: Atkins, Norton , McGlennon, Felix
Performers: Costello, Tom, 1863-1945
Themes: Social status , Clothing , Debt
Title: The night I played Richard the Third
First Line: I always had a fancy to come out upon the stage
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Themes: Theaters
Title: The beat of the drum
First Line: Will you gang with me, my lassie?
Performers: Maybrick, Michael, 1844-1913
Title: Up in the gallery on a Saturday night
First Line: I am a boy that enjoys myself
Attributation: Written & sung by Frederick Williams, Manager, Deacon's Music Hall
Authors: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Performers: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Themes: Theaters
Title: The old bachelor
First Line: They say that human nature finds relief in matrimony
Performers: Atkins, Will
Themes: Bachelors , Marriage - men
Title: Skating at Olympia
First Line: I thought a little skating would be healthy
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Themes: Amusements
Title: Rainbow in de sky
First Line: Pretty little girl in a bran new suit
Authors: Dacre, Harry
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The dandy coloured coon
First Line: Now I'm a gallous nigger when I'm round about the town
Authors: Morton, Richard , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Stratton, Eugene, 1861-1918
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The oft told tale
First Line: A woodman sang beside a brook
Title: Old pals
First Line: The happiest hour in a man's career
Authors: Boden, Harry
Performers: Anderson, Harry
Title: When the children are asleep
First Line: Ere the night has ended day
Performers: de Fonblanque, Madame
Title: Sarah, Sarah. Or A donkey cart built for two
First Line: I've got such a nice young man
Authors: Bedford, Harry
Performers: Carney, Kate, 1868-1950
Themes: Entertainments
Title: Our boys across the sea
First Line: There is a land of beauty, a land of mighty power
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Sullivan, Rose, 1863-1895
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Remembered or forgotten
First Line: I feel my heart with hope and gladness beating
Title: Yes, you are!
First Line: The men of to-day have some odd little ways
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Valmore, Jenny
Themes: Men
Title: Rose in her Sunday clothes
First Line: What is the flow'r of an Englishman's heart
Authors: Hall, Albert, 1864-1907 , Murphy, C.W., 1875-1913
Performers: Valmore, Jenny
Title: Bold Robin Hood
First Line: Bold Robin Hood, was a forester good
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: The vindow man
First Line: You'll guess my line of pizness by the things upon my back
Authors: Wilmott, Charles , Pether, H.E.
Performers: Rich, J.C.
Themes: Jews , Immigrants - Great Britain
Title: Pretty girl rather
First Line: One day, while strolling through the street
Authors: McGlennon, Felix
Performers: Rowley, J.W., 1847-1925
Themes: Prostitution
Title: Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
First Line: My song is quite a novelty
Performers: Travers, Hyram
Title: Pretty pond lilies
First Line: Whilst waiting in the lane for you, darling
Title: When summer comes again
First Line: There was once a young maiden of tender grace
Authors: Thornton, James, 1861-1938
Performers: Thornton, Bonnie, 1873-1920
Title: Various topics (old & new)
First Line: Not quite one hundred years ago
Performers: Hunter, G.W.
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: The giddy little girl said \"No.\"
First Line: I'll tell you a tale of a giddy little girl
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Here's to Private Tommy Atkins
First Line: You can fetch him from the \"Grapes\" or \"Barley Mow\"
Authors: St. Clair, F.V.
Title: Looking for a coon like me
First Line: Say, hab you seen a yaller gal
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Wentworth, Bessie, 1874-1901
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: One who is life to me
First Line: What means that thrill of newly waken'd gladness
Authors: Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922 , Pettitt, Henry, 1848-1893
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: Oh! take me there
First Line: I'm told there is a blissful spot
Authors: Ellis, A.E. , Durandeau, Augustus E., d. 1893
Performers: Dempsey, W.P. , Stevens, Charles E., d. 1910
Title: You men you think you're tricky
First Line: When boys and girls meet they think they are in love
Performers: Cavendish, Nellie
Themes: Marriage - gender roles
Title: Nellie and May, sisters were they
First Line: I will tell to you a story which the shades of life will show
Authors: Kelly, John T., 1855-1922
Title: The rowdy-dowdy boys
First Line: Girls, I'm a jolly old chappie
Authors: Conley, Tom , McGlennon, Felix
Themes: Amusements , Police
Title: Robin Hood up to date
First Line: Some people praise the good old days
Authors: Lennard, Horace, d. 1920 , Andrews, Bond
Performers: Chard, Kate, 1862-1942
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: The miser
First Line: With greedy eyes the miser
Authors: Beverly, Gus
Performers: Rich, J.C.
Themes: Money
Title: Obadiah and Maria
First Line: Oh! I dreamed that I should meet my love to-day
Title: Oh, 'Ria! A cockney's love affair
First Line: It was in the doorway of a 'pub
Authors: Castling, Harry
Performers: Pearl, Arthur
Title: Mona
First Line: O, swift goes my boat like a bird on the billow
Authors: Weatherly, F.E. , Maybrick, Michael, 1844-1913
Title: On the same old spot once more
First Line: It's somewhat sweet I think to know
Performers: Anderson, Harry
Title: Push dem clouds away
First Line: If you want to git to Heaven on de nickel-plated road
Authors: Gaunt, Percy
Performers: Pryde, Peggy
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Oh, Polly! Pretty little Polly!
First Line: Now, you talk about yer ladies -- female aristocratic swells
Authors: Castling, Harry , Venton, F.W., d. 1918
Performers: Hurley, Alec, 1863-1913
Title: Not the only one
First Line: I always make the best of thing
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: If the heart of a man
First Line: If the heart of a man is depressed with care
Title: You grasp the situation in a minute
First Line: Did you ever chance to meet with a coster in the street
Authors: Calvert, C.W. , Eaton, W.G.
Performers: Leamar, Alice, 1869-1950
Title: Oh, Flossie! Pretty little Flossie
First Line: Little sweetheart, up above me
Authors: Morton, Richard
Performers: Little Chip (Pseudonym)
Title: One who is life to me
First Line: What means that thrill of newly waken'd gladness
Authors: Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922 , Pettitt, Henry, 1848-1893
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: You'll have to name the day
First Line: Hold your whist, while I tell you what's happened to me
Authors: Adams, Harry , Harrison, J.M.
Performers: Sullivan, Rose, 1863-1895
Title: Oh! Mr. Porter
First Line: Lately I just spent a week with my old aunt Brown
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Themes: Railways
Title: Venice at Olympia
First Line: To Venice at Olympia I took my girl
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Themes: Amusements
Title: Real good boys
First Line: The days of my childhood, ah! well I remember
Authors: Robson, T.G.
Performers: Collins, Marie
Title: You and I, and all of us
First Line: Now, you, and I, and all of us
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: Our 'armonic club
First Line: On a Monday night when the blokes 'as finished work
Themes: Drinking
Title: Up go the fireworks
First Line: Upon the usual firework night
Authors: Pink, Wal, 1862-1922 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Combes, Arthur
Themes: Fireworks
Title: Oo-diddley-oo!
First Line: It's very, very hard when all that you can say
Authors: Starr, Harry
Performers: Rigby, Arthur W.
Title: You look after me
First Line: Two jolly pals made up their minds a party to attend
Authors: Connor, T.W.
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Themes: Drinking
Title: Saturday
First Line: There's one day a week when we feel a bit \"Gay,\"
Authors: Maurice, George, d. 1903
Performers: Champion, Harry, 1866-1942
Title: Riding on the District Railway
First Line: A maid came to London just for change
Authors: Morris, Alfred J., 1861-1905 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Coleman, Bessie
Themes: Seduction , Countryman in London , London Underground
Title: Marguerite's lovers
First Line: I was once Queen of a beauty show
Authors: Atkins, Norton
Performers: Torr, Clara
Title: My old man
First Line: The time does swiftly flow
Authors: Morton, Richard , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Lawrence, Katie
Themes: Family life
Title: Adieu, my lov'd harp
First Line: Adieu, mu lov'd harp, for no more shall the vale
Title: The Irish colleen
First Line: I went to a party consisting of four
Authors: Robey, W.C.
Performers: Howard, Lizzie, 1864-1901
Title: Kate Kearney
First Line: Oh, have you not heard of Kate Kearney
Title: Carrie Gray
First Line: An old fellow once at a cosy bar stood
Authors: Darnley, Herbert , Atkins, Norton
Performers: McCarthy, D.J.
Themes: Letter-writing , Courtship - difference in social status
Title: At the mid hour of night
First Line: At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
Title: Shepherds, I have lost my love
First Line: Shepherds, I have lost my love
