Broadside Ballads Online

Imprint Names:  Wilson, J.

Imprint Locations:  Bideford

Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford

Notes:  See Harding B 11(4026).

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V9630

Title: The wandering boy

First Line: When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor

Authors:  White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1240

Title: Old Towler

First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn

Themes:  Hunting

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V4160

Title: The mariner's compass

First Line: Sam spritsail's a lad you delight in

Themes:  Sailors

4th Ballad - Roud Number: 12680

Title: The woodpecker

First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V5639

Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife

First Line: The tale is true I've often heard

Themes:  Taverns ,  Domestic relations

6th Ballad - Roud Number: 13449

Title: Home, sweet home

First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam

Authors:  Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 381

Title: Second thoughts are best

First Line: Come write me down ye powers above

8th Ballad - Roud Number: V3501

Title: Answer to Home, sweet home

First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray

Imprint Names:  Wilson, J.

Imprint Locations:  Bideford

Notes:  See Firth b.26(467/468)

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13449

Title: Home, sweet home

First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam

Authors:  Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852

Notes:  With an additional verse. Appears also in a sheet of eight ballads; see Firth b.26(467/468)

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3501

Title: Answer to Home, sweet home

First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray

Notes:  Appears also in a sheet of eight ballads; see Firth b.26(467/ 468)

Themes:  Seduction