Broadside Ballads Online

Imprint Names:  Durham Chronicle

Imprint Locations:  Durham

Date  [1837]

Imprint: Printed at the Office of the Durham Chronicle

Series Identifier: 1

Ballad - Roud Number: V32560

Title: Liddell lyrics. No. 1

First Line: Oh! sure there never was a man so badly used as I

Subjects:  Liddell, Henry Thomas, 1797-1878

Themes:  Parliamentary elections, North Durham ,  1837

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V7466

Title: John O'Dwyer-a-Glana

First Line: Ohe [sic] morning as I started

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dvblin [sic]

Ballad - Roud Number: V17415

Title: Champagne Chalie [sic]

First Line: I've seen a deal of gaiety throughout my noisy life

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V4231

Title: The game of cards

First Line: You true sons of Erin draw near me

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Fenians

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, 1, Lr, Exchauge [sic], St, Dublin

Ballad

Title: Hagertys ball

First Line: Iits [sic] near Balakale where the lads they are friskey

Subjects:  Ireland

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: 13371

Title: The adventure's of Roger O'Hare

First Line: In my first proceedings I took rakcish [sic] ways

Themes:  Theft

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Du[blin]

Ballad - Roud Number: 13865

Title: The mariner's grave

First Line: I rmember [sic] the night was stormy & wet

Themes:  Naval

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, 1, Lr, Exchange, Street, Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V4237

Title: The organ grinder

First Line: Kind friends attention give to me

Themes:  Rejected suitor ,  Street music and musicians

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, 1, Lr, Exchange St

Ballad - Roud Number: 13750

Title: A new song call'd Annie Lisle

First Line: Down where the waving willow

Authors:  Thompson, S.

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad

Title: Hymn on the general judgment [sic] day

First Line: On the general judgement day

Themes:  Day of judgement

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton printer 1 Lr Exchange St

Ballad - Roud Number: 7629

Title: Shelling green peas

First Line: I sing you a ditty of a damsel so pretty

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: 4882

Title: Up in a balloon

First Line: One night I went up in a baioon [sic]

Themes:  Drunkenness ,  Ballooning ,  Dreams

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 26(383) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V20199

Title: A new song on lovely Keaty [sic] of Liskehan

First Line: You gentle muses I pray excuse me

Authors:  Ahern, C.T.

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad

Title: A new song call'd the Young lady's lamentation for the loss of her true love

First Line: It was early early all in the spring

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1802 and 1819

Imprint: Printed and sold by J. Pitts 1[4] Great st Andrew street seven Dials

Ballad - Roud Number: 2298

Title: The cruel father, and constant lover

First Line: A lady's daughter in the west

Themes:  Murder ,  Courtship - difference in social status ,  Suicide

Imprint Names:  Walker, G.

Imprint Locations:  Durham

Date  between 1797 and 1834

Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham

Series Identifier: 1

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2662

Title: The ivy green

First Line: Ah! a dainty plant is the ivy green

Authors:  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13833

Title: Woodman spare that tree

First Line: Woodman spare that tree

Authors:  Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864

Imprint Names:  Weston, R. and sons

Imprint Locations:  Edinburgh

Date  [1838]

Imprint: Published by R. Weston & Sons, No, 1, South College Street, and 31, Lothian Street

Ballad

Title: Down with mob and charlie!

First Line: The news from College cam' yestreen

Themes:  Edinburgh University, student riots

Imprint Names:  Weston, R. and sons

Imprint Locations:  Edinburgh

Date  [1838]

Imprint: Published by R. Weston & Sons, 1 South College St. and 31, Lothian Street

Ballad - Roud Number: V4159

Title: Lieut P---d's soliloquy

First Line: Now is the clincher to our cowardice

Themes:  Edinburgh University, student riots

Imprint Names:  Weston, R. and sons

Imprint Locations:  Edinburgh

Date  [1838]

Imprint: Published by R. Weston & Sons, 1, South College Street, and 31, Lothian Street

Ballad - Roud Number: V32503

Title: The question

First Line: Police, or no police, that is the question

Themes:  Edinburgh University, student riots, 1838

Imprint Names:  Weston, R. and sons

Imprint Locations:  Edinburgh

Date  [1838]

Imprint: Published by R. Weston & Sons, 1, South College Street, and 31, Lothian Street

Ballad - Roud Number: V32660

Title: A street ballad

First Line: A song I sing without any cram

Tune: The cork leg

Themes:  Edinburgh University, student riots

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, 1, Lr, Exchauge [sic], St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 26(240) is another edition.

Ballad

Title: Hagertys ball

First Line: Its near Bllakale [sic] where the lads they are friskey

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: 141

Title: A new song call'd The golden glove

First Line: A wealthy young squire live'd in Thomastown clere [sic]

Themes:  Social status ,  Transvestism ,  Women hunters

Imprint Names:  Laurie and Whittle

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  1805

Imprint: Published July 1, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London

Notes:  An engraving

Series Identifier: 396

Ballad

Title: [None]

First Line: Had you not been here, all good friends that I see

Authors:  Kenney, James, 1780-1849

Performers:  Hatton, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Theatre Royal

Notes:  A song from Raising the wind, by James Kenney.

Imprint Names:  Laurie and Whittle

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  1806

Imprint: Published April 1, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London

Notes:  An engraving

Series Identifier: 419

Ballad - Roud Number: V12221

Title: A burlesque on Mr. & Mrs. Clark, or the Flitch of bacon

First Line: The spruce Mr. Clark

Performers:  Fawcett

Themes:  Marriage

Imprint Names:  Weston, R. and sons

Imprint Locations:  Edinburgh

Date  [1838]

Imprint: Published by R. Weston & Sons, 1, South College Street, and 31, Lothian Street

Ballad - Roud Number: V7803

Title: Parody on Byron's \"Battle of Waterloo\"

First Line: There was a sound of bloodless snow-ball fight

Themes:  Edinburgh University, student riots