Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: R. March & Co., St. James's [Walk ...]
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements and prose pieces. Imprint damaged. Large format
Title: The mesmerist
First Line: The secret \"How to mezmerize\" I learned some time ago
Authors: Seldon, A.
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Farewell Allanna
First Line: Farewell Allanna! farewell asthore!
Title: A modern medley. Or The singing barmaid
First Line: There is a damsel fair to see
Performers: Leyton, George, 1864-1948
Title: The emigrant ship
First Line: See yon vessel, in the harbour
Performers: Leyton, George, 1864-1948
Title: It is not the tear at this moment shed
First Line: It is not the tear at this moment shed
Authors: Moore, Thomas
Title: Steer my bark to Erin's isle
First Line: Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Louisa's lovers
First Line: Of a giddy young girl named Louisa I'll sing
Performers: Lennard, Arthur, 1868-1954
Title: The consequence
First Line: Take my tip, here's a snip
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Powell
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: Give him my kind regards
First Line: When my friend Brown was leaving town
Attributation: Written, composed and sung by Lester Barrett
Authors: Barrett, Lester
Performers: Barrett, Lester
Title: The song of the last harper
First Line: Ah! dark are the halls where your ancestors revell'd
Title: He'll get it where he's gone to now
First Line: Poor Jenkins was a chilly man, which no one can deny
Performers: Robey, George, 1869-1954
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
Title: The longer you linger
First Line: What a thing 'tis to be hungry and to see good grub about
Authors: Maurice, George, d. 1903
Performers: Champion, Harry, 1866-1942
Title: On my own!
First Line: I'm always independent as I frequently have shewn
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913
Performers: Fawn, James, 1850-1923
Title: We had to part
First Line: Of course you've all been more or less deep in love
Performers: Rudd, Austin
Title: Fly care to the winds
First Line: Fly care to the winds, thus I blow thee away
Title: Wives
First Line: You will all have heard of \"rhino\"
Authors: Miller, Ben , Norman, Robert
Performers: Rowland, F.
Title: Poor thing
First Line: Sal Smith was a nice girl, but so shy, Poor thing!
Authors: Morton, Richard
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Title: Love's rebuke
First Line: Ye hapless ones who say, \"Love's but a dream\"
Performers: McKay, Iver
Title: The wanderer's return
First Line: When, as a lad, long years ago
Authors: Atkins, Norton
Performers: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Title: I whistle and wait for Kate
First Line: After business you will find me
Authors: Nolan, Michael, 1867-1909
Title: Hi! diddle diddle
First Line: Since the day of Jubilation there's been no sensation
Authors: Robson, T.F.
Performers: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Title: Very difficult to please
First Line: I'm the victim of a delicate, discriminating taste
Title: Timothy Tubbs
First Line: Tim Tubbs was very tubby and
Performers: Lennard, Arthur, 1868-1954
Title: Peggy Cline
First Line: \"Katie Connor\" and her beau
Authors: Kelly, A.T. , Murphy, C.W., 1875-1913 , Levy, Maurice
Performers: Rafferty, Pat, 1861-1952
Title: The harp that once throug[h] Tara's halls
First Line: The harp that once through Tara's halls
Title: They all came back
First Line: I have a birthday every year, and sometimes two or three
Attributation: Written composed and sung by Lester Barrett
Authors: Barrett, Lester
Performers: Barrett, Lester
Title: The moral maid
First Line: There lived a moral maid in the year of sixty three
Performers: Moore, Alec, 1861-1896
Title: The coster's Sunday out
First Line: You've heard a lot of talk about this moke of Mister 'Awkins
Performers: Lundberg, Ada, 1850-1899 , Mason, Fred, 1868-1895
Title: The working man's Sunday at home
First Line: There's just now a botheration agitation and vexation
Performers: Costello, Tom, 1863-1945
Themes: Working hours
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: The girl was young and pretty
First Line: I'll sing you a song with a moral about
Attributation: Written composed & sung by Charles Chaplin
Authors: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Performers: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Title: Oh! we've got a lot of 'em
First Line: There are lots of ladies in this world
Performers: Vance, Eunice
Title: Some sang high, some sang low
First Line: I went to a musical party
Performers: Leyton, George, 1864-1948
Title: Blowhard's brass band
First Line: I've often heard that music's charms will soothe the savage breast
Performers: Fielding, Ben, 1849-1893
Title: Reconciled
First Line: After years of life apart
Title: The road to paradise
First Line: Where busy people throng the street
Title: Norah's message
First Line: Ah surely thou wilt not forsake me
Performers: Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919
Title: My gentle harp
First Line: My gentle harp, once more I waken
Title: His first offence
First Line: In an officer's tent, far away from old Ireland
Authors: Osborne, Charles
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Title: There's a good time coming
First Line: Boys when you're going to get wed
Performers: Vance, Eunice
Title: Three jolly tars
First Line: Now, once upon a time there were three jolly tars
Authors: Oxenford, Edward, 1847-1929
Title: She was right
First Line: Of all the artful women it has
Performers: Joyce, Sid
Title: Scenes that are brightest
First Line: Scenes that are brightest may charm awhile
Title: Not the only one
First Line: I always make the best of thing[s]
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Sweetheart
First Line: I stand beneath the trysting tree
Title: That's how it's done
First Line: Once I would refust an invite
Performers: Leno, Dan, 1860-1904
Title: Nellie and May, sisters were they
First Line: I will tell you a story which the shades of life will show
Authors: Kelly, John T., 1855-1922
Title: I didn't know
First Line: I once was asked to sing, at some
Attributation: Author, composer, and singer, Austin Rudd
Authors: Rudd, Austin
Performers: Rudd, Austin
Title: Hello, Mary!
First Line: Now in that neat cot at the foot of the hill
Authors: McGlennon, Felix
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Title: Never judge by appearance
First Line: One day I thought I'd try my friends and see if they were true
Authors: Hart, Joseph
Performers: Lawlor, Charles B., 1852-1925
Title: Love has eyes
First Line: Love's blind, they say
Authors: Dibdin, Charles
Title: Now then Molly
First Line: I live with my granny, in a pretty home
Authors: McCarthy, W.H.
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Title: Katie my own
First Line: Now, I want to tell you about my sweetheart
Authors: Tilbury, Walter
Performers: Lawrence, Katie
Title: Little Annie Rooney
First Line: [A] winning way, a pleasant smile
Attributation: Written, composed, and sung by Michael Nolan
Authors: Nolan, Michael, 1867-1909
Performers: Nolan, Michael, 1867-1909
Title: King of the boys
First Line: In life we see some funny things, no matter where we go
Authors: St. Leonards, C. , Manhill, James, 1848-1899 , Cleve, Joseph
Performers: Robina, Fanny, 1862-1927
Title: That's what I call plucky!
First Line: We very often hear folks praise
Authors: Howard, Carl , Pether, H.E.
Performers: Robey, George, 1869-1954
Title: Marjor-ie! Marjor-osh!
First Line: A maiden fair was mashed on me
Authors: Morton, Richard , Pether, H.E.
Performers: Robey, George, 1869-1954
Title: My hat's a brown 'un
First Line: Why is it people gaze at me
Performers: Robey, George, 1869-1954
Title: Sweethearts
First Line: In a far off, quaint old village
Authors: Willmott, Charles , Pether, H.E.
Performers: Howard, Lizzie, 1864-1901
Title: Cushlamachree
First Line: Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises
Themes: Ireland
Title: Trade marks
First Line: In every grade of business, since the days of Noah's ark
Performers: Beauchamp, George
Title: Mary Green
First Line: Close beside a running brook just outside the town
Authors: Lamb, Henry
Title: Erin, O Erin!
First Line: Like the bright lamp that shone in Kildare's holy fane
Themes: Ireland
Title: That pie! Parody on \"For you\"
First Line: Old Time may shuffle on, my love
Performers: Raeburn, Sam, 1865-1890
Title: Norah
First Line: Let others sing of maidens fair
Authors: Robson, T.F.
Performers: Rafferty, Pat, 1861-1952
Title: Avenging and bright
First Line: Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin
Authors: Moore, Thomas
Title: We've all been there
First Line: Don't think that I have just arrived from some seafaring town
Performers: Ford, Harry, d. 1894
Title: Didn't we lower the tiddley
First Line: My friends, you must excuse me, please; I've been upon the spree
Authors: Atkins, Norton
Performers: Fairburn, George, 1864-1918
Title: Norah, the pride of Kildare
First Line: As beauteous as Flora, is charming young Norah
Title: Rumfoozler's club
First Line: I've joined the famed Rumfoozler's Club, quite ignored my favourite pub
Attributation: Composed and Sung by Leo Dryden
Authors: Dryden, Leo
Performers: Dryden, Leo
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
