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
Notes: See Firth b.28(1a) for imprint. With a poem, an advertisement, and toasts.
Series Identifier: Portrait Series [Fred. Harvey] 4
Title: It wasn't me
First Line: Before I got married and lost all my wool
Authors: Osborne, Charles
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Themes: Drinking
Title: Little children
First Line: You are glad, O little children
Performers: Elliott, Meredith
Title: Makes you feel uneasy, doesn't it?
First Line: There are times when nearly all men
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Kathleen, asthore
First Line: In an old Irish home sat an old Irish farmer
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Edge one!
First Line: If you're out upon the ramble
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Love's ever at love's side
First Line: Love, you are in the hills
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: Little mud cabin
First Line: In this wide, dreary, world, sad and friendless, alone
Performers: Fielding, Ben, 1849-1893
Title: As in a looking glass
First Line: Seen, as in a looking glass are our thoughts where'er we go
Performers: Hylton, Millie, 1868-1920
Themes: Countryman in London , Social criticism
Title: Parody on Comrades!
First Line: We were boozers chums together, old Jack Brown and I
Themes: Drinking
Title: Loving tears
First Line: Ah love, the sun is sinking into the silent sea
Title: Friends were saying good-bye
First Line: One day at the docks I stood watching the ships
Authors: St. Clair, F.V.
Performers: LeBlanc, Marie
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Lover's lane
First Line: There's a sylvan path enchanting to all sweethearts in all times
Title: That was me
First Line: In a quarter of London well-known as the Dials
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Subjects: London (England)
Themes: Amusements
Title: Starlight
First Line: Starlight only shone above you
Title: The wild man of Borneo has just come to town
First Line: The wild man of Borneo has just come to town
Performers: Two Macs
Title: Oh, take care of it
First Line: A careful man I've always been
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Our society
First Line: We joined a new socity I took the oath to-day
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: My dog and my gun
First Line: Let gay ones and great make the most of their fate
Authors: Arne, Michael, 1741-1786
Title: My sweeetheart [sic] when a boy
First Line: Tho' many gentle hearts I've known
Title: Our flat
First Line: Jones and I the other day were rather short of tin
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Queen of my heart
First Line: I stand at your threshold sighing
Title: All thro' sticking to a soldier
First Line: If you gaze upon my \"chivey\" you will see I've got the hump
Performers: Lundberg, Ada, 1850-1899
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Tiddy fol lol
First Line: There's a party I know, Tiddy fol lol, tiddy fol lol
Themes: Social status , Amusements
Notes: See Firth b.28(1a) for imprint. With a poem, an advertisement, and toasts. The illustration is coloured. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918
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Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: R. March & Co., 18, St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements. Large format
Series Identifier: R. March's Copyright Edition 889
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu, adieu, my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: Saved by a child
First Line: 'Twas a golden, radiant Sabbath morn
Performers: McKay, Iver
Themes: Religion
Title: Serenade -- \"Dreaming\"
First Line: Forest and meadows in moonbeams are dreaming
Attributation: Sung by Master Frank Peskett and Mr. Stedman's Choir Boys
Performers: Peskett, Frank , Mr. Stedman's Choir Boys
Title: The scent of the roses
First Line: I open an ancient casket
Performers: Cole, Belle, 1845-1905
Title: The singer's wish
First Line: If the songs I have sung find a place in your heart
Title: So did Uncle Charley
First Line: For three months I've been on the Q T
Title: So are we all, dear boys!
First Line: I'm one of the fellows who never say die
Performers: Vance
Title: So it was
First Line: I have a most confiding wife
Performers: Macdermott, Gilbert Hastings, 1845-1901
Title: So much the better for you
First Line: To you that have plenty of money I say
Performers: Bonehill, Bessie, d. 1902
Title: The shy young girl
First Line: While walking in the park, my friends
Attributation: Written and sung by Charles Clifford
Authors: Clifford, Charles
Performers: Clifford, Charles
Title: The soldier's dream
First Line: Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lower'd
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Military
Title: That's the only bit of comfort I have got
First Line: Some day -- well so they tell me, we shall all be better off
Themes: Family life
Title: 'Twere better so!
First Line: All around the flow'rs are fading
Performers: Myers, Clara
Title: She's changed by boots for a set of jugs
First Line: \"What is it?\" and \"Where has it sprung from?\"
Themes: Domestic economy
Title: A soldier of fortune am I
First Line: Yes a soldier of fortune am I
Performers: Martin, J.B. , Mohawk Minstrels
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Soldier Jim
First Line: For a \"rogue about town\" you could safely set down
Themes: Military
Title: She may have gone to Germany
First Line: Oh frailty thy name is woman
Title: The silent choir
First Line: I wander'd one moonlight evening
Themes: Ruins
Title: Something rather dangerous, something rather nice
First Line: To pass away the time I will endeavour
Title: She was
First Line: I sing of Martha my dear wife
Themes: Domestic relations
Title: She called in a broker
First Line: I'm not going to sing that she's marmalade jam, or anything like it so sweet
Authors: Johnson, Bob , Page, Charles
Themes: Domestic relations
Title: She's a daisy
First Line: My Mary Ann's a teacher in a great big School Board school
Themes: Education
Title: Swinging to and fro
First Line: If you want to give your girl a treat, I'll tell you what to do
Attributation: Written, composed, and sung by John Read
Authors: Read, John
Performers: Read, John
Themes: Amusements
Title: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
First Line: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
Subjects: Scotland
Title: She boxed my ears with a frying pan
First Line: I am a chicken hearted man
Performers: Windley, Harry
Themes: Domestic violence
Title: The scarlet runners
First Line: The scarlet runners we are called
Themes: Military
Title: Salisbury and Gladstone
First Line: A few days ago whilst I was in town
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Home Rule - Ireland
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The seat in the chimney corner Or, How's that for sixty- three?
First Line: Oh! It's more than forty years ago
Themes: Old age
Title: Snowdrops and violets
First Line: Snowdrops and violets, laden with dew
Title: Somebody whispered so sweetly
First Line: Where is the harm if she met him
Title: Six months' hard
First Line: Last week while passing Bow Street I had nothing much to do
Performers: Campbell, Herbert, 1844-1904
Subjects: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 1834-1892 , Irving, Henry, 1838-1905
Themes: Courts and law , Exeter Hall (London, England)
Title: Signor Macstinger
First Line: I sing of a feminine gender
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: The squire, or, \"Far from the madding crowd\"
First Line: Squire Squeekem was a male, and he had been so from his birth
Performers: Godfrey, Charles, 1851-1900
Themes: City vs. country , Rural society
Title: She thought she might as well
First Line: Katie at the garden gate
Title: So are we all, dear boys!
First Line: I'm one of the fellows who never say die
Performers: Vance
Title: Songs of childhood
First Line: Songs of childhood! how they haunt us
Performers: Elliott, Meredyth
Title: Shoulder to shoulder
First Line: The storm long brewing's burst at last
Themes: War
Title: I've done it
First Line: It's a well-known fact that we often go out on the spree
Authors: Wincott, H.
Performers: Bignell, Charles
Title: Too sweet to last
First Line: When in the calm and tinted sea
Title: Two sides to a hedge
First Line: This side the hedge, two \"golden youths\"
Title: The sultan's daughter
First Line: The Sultan's daughter, dreaming, stood
Performers: Vagnolini, Marie
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Performers: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: Sleep, my loved one!
First Line: Sleep, the shades of night are falling
Title: Tzim! tzim! tzig-a-zig-zigs
First Line: A countess, if he signs the deed
Attributation: Comic duet sung by Madlle. Vanoni and Mr. Arthur Roberts
Performers: Vanoni, Marie , Roberts, Arthur, 1852-1933
Title: Something went wrong with the works
First Line: I'm in an awful rage to-night
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Sowing and reaping
First Line: Forth went a youth a ploughing, in grey and chilly dawning
Themes: Agricultural laborers , Rural society
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Title: Two singers
First Line: Two singers loved the daughter of a king
Title: The beggar child's dream
First Line: The snow had robed the earth in white
Title: Think of this, think of that
First Line: Mrs. Brown she had a daughter whose age was seventeen or more
Attributation: Written, composed and sung by John Read
Authors: Read, John
Performers: Read, John
Themes: Marriage - women
Title: St. George, and merry England
First Line: There are three nations on the earth
Performers: Graham, Ada
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Sing on
First Line: Old age with many a genial grace
Performers: Pierpoint, Bantock
Title: Such a mash!
First Line: A creature whom I know, whom I know, whom I know
Performers: Power, Nelly, 1851-1887
Title: Sophia phia phia
First Line: There is a very pretty girl whom I admire
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: Sweet lavender
First Line: 'Twas only a loving look, by blue eyes fondly thrown
Title: The sun shines bright at last
First Line: Dear Jenny you remember how I told you long ago
Performers: Fielding, Ben, 1849-1893
Title: Sally with the coal black eye
First Line: Oh, Sally is the girl that won my heart
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: [Squee]ze my little finger
First Line: This world's made up of sweets and sours
Performers: Ripon, George, d. 1908
Title: Speak to me
First Line: Why turn away when I draw near
Title: Solomon's proverbs
First Line: I'm Solomon the second, and I've very often reckon'd
Performers: Hunter, G.W.
Title: The smugglers
First Line: From Brighton two Paddies walked under the cliff
Themes: Irish
Title: Under the greenwood tree
First Line: Under the greenwood tree
Title: Sweet chiming bells
First Line: Like a dream ye came to cheer me
Title: Sweet little blue eyed Nell
First Line: Although I'm not a tip top swell
Title: Stop it!
First Line: If there's one thing more than another I hate
Title: The Swiss toy seller
First Line: From Switzerland I come to you
Themes: Immigrants - Great Britain
Title: The Shoreditch handicap
First Line: When I went out last Easter time to Epping's calm retreat
Performers: Randall, Harry, 1860-1932
Title: Send that cook to me
First Line: Kind people pray attention pay
Themes: Servants
Title: The soldier dolly
First Line: There once was a sweet tiny maiden
Title: A song for other days
First Line: \"Sing oh! -- the land, the slighted land\"
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Politics and government - Ireland, 19th century
Title: She'd kept them all for me
First Line: The lady I have made my wife was once a sweet young miss
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: Susan Sweet
First Line: Miss Susan Sweet's a charming girl, whose face is like her name
Performers: Leybourne, George, 1842-1884
Title: Shreds and patches
First Line: While the yule log bright is burning
Themes: Poverty
Title: The soldier's return
First Line: We parted with a cheerful smile
Themes: Soldiers
