Imprint Names: Walker
Imprint Locations: Durham
Date between 1797 and 1834
Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham
Series Identifier: 22
Title: Flora May
First Line: The sun was sinking in the west
Title: Don't be foolish Joe
First Line: When I lived in Tennesse [sic]
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
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Notes: Johnson Ballads 1595; Coloured illustration.
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Imprint Names: Bebbington, J.O.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date c.1850
Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 22 Goulden Street, Oldham Road, Manchester
Series Identifier: 144
Title: Annie Laurie
First Line: Maxwelton braes are bonnie
Authors: Scott, Alicia Anne, Lady John, 1810-1900
Title: Buffalo gals
First Line: As I was walking down de street
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Mary of the silvery tide
First Line: It is a fair young creature who dwelt by the sea side
Themes: Murder , Lovers parted
Imprint Names: Bebbington, J.O.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date c.1850
Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 22 Goulden Street, Oldham Road, Manchester
Series Identifier: 123
Title: Mantle of green
First Line: As I went a walking one morning in June
Title: A life by de galley fire
First Line: A life by de galley fire, a home in de old caboose
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Was a jolly beggerman [sic]
First Line: There was a jolly beggar and a begging was bound
Themes: Beggars
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: Richard March & Co., St. James's Walk, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918
Series Identifier: March's Edition of New Songs and Ballads
Title: Unfit for publication
First Line: I am really the most virtuous young fellow in creation
Themes: Entertainments , Theaters , Music halls
Title: I'm fond of eating, fond of drinking
First Line: Sammy Fly it is my name
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Title: Come kiss, let's be friends
First Line: The course of true love ne'er ran smooth
Title: A raspberry tart with a little poke bonnet
First Line: Behold in me a real gone coon
Themes: Excursions
Title: The captain with his whiskers
First Line: As they march'd thro' the town with their banners so gay
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The empty cradle, baby's gone
First Line: Little empty cradle, treasur'd now with care
Title: Madame Rachel, or, Beautiful for ever
First Line: Oh, ladies, have you heard the news, the topic of the day?
Themes: Frauds , Marriage brokers
Title: When Tom comes home
First Line: Now, Bessie my darling, come dry up your eyes
Themes: Sailors , Lovers parted
Title: Oh what a lark!
First Line: Sally Jones, she was a widow
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Title: Here's another kind love
First Line: While strolling out the other night a friend of mine, Joe Blake
Themes: Drinking
Title: My heart is in a flutter
First Line: My heart is in a flutter
Performers: Harcourt, George
Title: Who shaved the pig?
First Line: The name I bear is Sammy Strop
Authors: Pinder, J. , Dodsworth, J.
Performers: Wynne, John
Themes: Barbers
Title: Never marry your mother-in-law
First Line: There's a very old saying as old as the hills
Title: My Katty, kiss 'em
First Line: I've caught at last my Katty dear
Title: Make it as smooth as you can
First Line: As we travel through life many people we meet
Title: In memory of the gallant 24th
First Line: They left the shores of Old England
Tune: I don't mean to tell you her name
Authors: March, Richard
Themes: Zulu War, 1879
Title: The military
First Line: I am so fond of the army, a soldier's life would charm me
Performers: Zimmer, Maggie (Mrs. H.R. Skinner), d. 1893
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Oh! ain't it pe-cu-li-ar
First Line: If to blow my own trumpet I may be so bold
Title: On the banks of the silvery Thames
First Line: She lived with her ma, and her crusty da-da
Title: A scientific simpleton
First Line: A scientific simpleton who struggled fame to gain
Title: Ever of thee
First Line: Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming
Title: Nellie, or Ten past nine
First Line: I'm off to my appointment now
Title: There's another jolly row down stairs
First Line: I'm one of those fellows who like quiet life
Title: My sweet forget-me-not
First Line: My love's a little blue-eyed girl
Title: Oh sweet Selina!
First Line: A poet midst his midnight oil
Title: A cheer for our gallant 24th
First Line: As often before I have told you
Performers: Davies, Minnie
Themes: Military , Zulu War, 1879
Title: O Fred, tell them to stop
First Line: No doubt you have heard of the great Fancy Fair
Title: Angels guard her now
First Line: Hush, tread lightly, do not wake
Title: Flirting with the fairies
First Line: A fig say I for quietude, I am the boy for fun
Title: Hey for the life of a soldier
First Line: When I was an infant, gossips would say
Title: Farewell to Jumbo
First Line: Poor Jumbo's going to leave us all
Tune: Auld lang syne
Themes: Entertainments , Zoos
Title: The contented blacksmith
First Line: The blacksmith sings from morn till night
Title: It's bound to be right in the morning
First Line: I've heard men say when married they could not go out at night
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu, adieu, my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: I'm so modest and retiring
First Line: I'm a girl so very bashful
Title: Peter and Paul
First Line: Now Peter and Paul were remarkable chaps
Authors: Anthony, George
Performers: Martell, Harry
Title: Meggie and Jo
First Line: I'm a happy-go-lucky, gay sort of chap, I dance and I sing all the day
Title: The man at the wheel or, Why did she leave me?
First Line: Behold me, the Captain of a steamboat
Performers: Seymour, Frank, d. 1891
Title: Mary had a little lamb
First Line: Mary, sweet Mary, the maid of the inn
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Our marriage bells are ringing
First Line: Our marriage bells are ringing
Title: The never-empty cradle or Cradle's crowded -- twins is born
First Line: Never empty cradle! though you're in my care
Themes: Family life
Title: Grandmother's watch. The popular reply to \"Grandfather's clock\"
First Line: My Grandmother's watch was of wonderful make
Title: Oh! dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye
First Line: Oh! dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye
Title: Oh! ain't I having a day
First Line: I'm a happy-go-lucky, gay sort of a chap, I dance and I sing all the day
Title: \"Our ship\"
First Line: Blow! blow! blow! the storm is at its height
Themes: Sailing
Title: Swinging to and fro
First Line: If you want to give your girl a treat, I'll tell you what to do
Themes: Amusements
Title: Send that cook to me
First Line: Kind people pray attention pay
Themes: Servants
Title: The old village school
First Line: 'Tis standing there yet, though the stern hand of time
Themes: Rural society
Title: Out on the tiles
First Line: A little mouse once told me that
Performers: Leybourne, George, 1842-1884
Title: \"Outside, please!!\"
First Line: I'm one that Nature's rounded on
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Oh, dear me
First Line: I once fell in love with a fair young lady
Title: Ettie, hear the blue bird sing
First Line: Ettie, hear the blue bird sing
Title: Oh, you pretty soul
First Line: I met a lass the other day
Title: Oh, what a beauty
First Line: Maria loved the Squire and the Squire so they say
Themes: Countryman in London
Title: Old friend, here's your good health
First Line: I like the man who's jolly
Title: St. George, and merry England
First Line: There are three nations on the earth
Performers: Graham, Ada
Themes: Patriotism , United Kingdom
Title: Oh! Father, dear Father, the brokers are in
First Line: Oh! father, dear father, come home with me now
Themes: Drunkenness
Title: \"Once more, Harry!\"
First Line: I'm a true-hearted fellow, so gay and so free
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Something rather dangerous, something rather nice
First Line: To pass away the time I will endeavour
Title: If England to herself be true
First Line: Where'er St. George's banner waves
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Good bye, Emily Jane
First Line: No doubt you will be awfully sad
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: I say, cabby!
First Line: I'm known as the Earl of St. James's
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Dandies
Title: It is not on the Battle-field
First Line: It is not on the Battle-field
Title: Just after the battle
First Line: Still upon the field of battle
Themes: War
Title: Happy Ann
First Line: I've lately joined the Army
Performers: Graham, Ada
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: Over the garden wall
First Line: Oh, my love stood under the walnut tree
Title: Oh, dem golden slippers!
First Line: Oh, my golden slippers am laid away
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: All round the squares
First Line: My friend[s] all say I'm half insane
Themes: Courtship - difference in social status
Title: My heart's in the Highlands
First Line: My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here
Title: A rolling stone gathers no moss
First Line: As we pass along life, how many we see
Title: Tommy's birthday
First Line: I live with my respected Ma and little sisters three
Performers: Francis, James
Title: The ring my mother wore
First Line: The earth has many treasures rare, in gems and golden ore
Title: When shall I send you a cradle
First Line: Young Brown was about to get married and he
Themes: Family life
Title: Quite the lady
First Line: While walking one night beneath the gas light
Themes: Prostitution
Title: Mother, he's going away
First Line: \"Sure now what are you crying for, Nelly?\"
Themes: Irish
Title: The family man or Father, what have you got for us?
First Line: A family man you see in me
Title: The lash
First Line: Hush, niggers all, de old man's sleeping
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Now you are married I wish you joy
First Line: When I was a child how I used to play
Title: Leave it alone
First Line: When I was a boy I oft got in a row
Title: One kiss more
First Line: Eyes are bright, teeth are white
Performers: Sisters Leamar
Title: Is there any harm in that?
First Line: I am a simple maiden