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Edition - Bod4232

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle

Notes:  See cut on Wood E 25(10).

Series Identifier: 102


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3571

Title: The battle of the Nile

First Line: Arise, arise, Britannia's sons, arise

Subjects:  Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805

Themes:  Nile, Battle of the, 1798

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5538

Title: Money is your friend

First Line: Of friendship I have heard much talk

Themes:  Money

Firth b.25(238)

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Harding B 11(188)

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Edition - Bod1097

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 166


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 24348

Title: Bonnie prince Charlie

First Line: Cam' ye by Athol braes, lad wi' the philabeg

Subjects:  ScotlandCharles Edward, prince, grandson of James II, king of England, 1720-1788

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 867

Title: Brewer laddie

First Line: In Perth there liv'd a bonnie lad

Subjects:  Scotland

Firth b.25(236)

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Edition - Bod1098

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey Street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 205


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 12887

Title: Adam was a gentleman

First Line: Old Adam was the first man form'd

Themes:  MarriageAdam (Biblical figure)

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V7761

Title: Bonny Beeswing

First Line: Come, all ye jolly sportsmen, of high and low degree

Themes:  Horse-racing

Firth b.25(243)

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Firth c.19(71)

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Harding B 11(5)

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Edition - Bod1114

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 95


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4817

Title: The steam arm

First Line: O wonders sure will never cease

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2672

Title: The poor little sweep!

First Line: On a cold winter's morning, as snow was falling

Themes:  Chimney-sweeps

Firth b.25(284)

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Edition - Bod1703

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: Printed and sold by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle and Hull. To be had also of J. Whinham & Co., 66 Scotch-str., Carlisle

Series Identifier: 101


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13899

Title: The soldier's dream

First Line: Our bugles sung truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd

Authors:  Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 218

Title: Oxford city

First Line: It's of a fair maid in Oxford city

Themes:  Jealousy

2806 c.19(29)

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Edition - Bod5107

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey Street Newcastle

Notes:  Firth b.25(236) is another issue.

Series Identifier: 193


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 24348

Title: Bonnie prince Charlie

First Line: Cam'ye by Athol braes, lad wi' the philabeg

Subjects:  Charles Edward, prince, grandson of James II, king of England, 1720-1788

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 867

Title: Brewer laddie

First Line: In Perth there liv'd a bonnie lad

2806 c.11(234)

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Edition - Bod6565

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 172


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V4060

Title: Week after the fair

First Line: O John! what's this ye've done John?

Themes:  Drunkenness

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 16967

Title: John Anderson, my jo

First Line: John Anderson, my jo, John

Attributation: R. Burns and traditional verses

Authors:  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

Themes:  Marriage

Firth b.25(295)

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Edition - Bod6583

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 177


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V279

Title: The bold dragoon

First Line: There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a neat young man

Themes:  Marriage - age difference

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 22807

Title: Poor Jack

First Line: Here I am, poor Jack

Firth b.25(235)

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Harding B 11(369)

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Edition - Bod6602

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: Printed and sold by W. & T. Fordyce, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle. To be had also at 43, Myton-gate, Hull

Series Identifier: 169


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3987

Title: The humours of the races

First Line: Good people, all draw near, and listen to my ditty

Themes:  Horse-racing

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V11557

Title: Wonderful times

First Line: Come listen unto my wonderful song

Themes:  FashionsFairs

Firth b.25(253)

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Harding B 11(1603)

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Edition - Bod2439

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Imprint: Printed and sold by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle; to be had also of J. Whinham & Co. Scotch-st., Carlisle

Series Identifier: 34


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3157

Title: The twopenny postman

First Line: Very near the west end, tho' I must not tell where

Themes:  Postmen

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5753

Title: Orphan drummer boy

First Line: It was down in a country village, by a neat little cottage

Tune: Fisherman's boy

Themes:  Orphans

Harding B 11(3922)

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Edition - Bod3150

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean Street, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: 8697

Title: The yellow-hair'd laddie

First Line: In April, when primroses paint the sweet plain

Harding B 16(314c)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod3639

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, Dean Street, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: V9194

Title: The North Seaton coachman

First Line: Oh! have you heard the news of late

Tune: King of the Cannibal islands

Themes:  Coach drivers

Harding B 25(1380)

Notes:  Attached is a newspaper clipping announcing appointment of stewards for Morpeth Races


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Edition - Bod11410

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey-Street, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: 5772

Title: The adventures of Larry M'Flinn

First Line: In the year eighteen hundred and thirty and three

Notes:  Verse and prose

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Police

Harding B 11(14)

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Edition - Bod11479

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean Street, Newcastle. To had also at No. 43, Myton Gate, Hull

Series Identifier: 127


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V412

Title: Fair Helen

First Line: Fair Helen one morn from her cottage had stray'd

Themes:  Social status

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 3122

Title: We're a'noddin

First Line: Gude e'en to ye, kimmer

Harding B 11(1115)

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Edition - Bod11675

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey St., Newcastle

Notes:  Harding B 11(138) is another edition. Harding B 11(138) is another edition.

Series Identifier: 7


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4260

Title: Banks of Allan water; or, The miller's daughter

First Line: On the banks of Allan water

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2315

Title: Johnny Cope

First Line: Cope sent a letter frae Dunbar

Subjects:  Cope, John, Sir, d. 1760

Themes:  Prestonpans, battle of, 1745

Harding B 11(139)

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Johnson Ballads 1944

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Edition - Bod12472

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey Street Newcastle

Series Identifier: 130


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4583

Title: The Blanch frigate

First Line: You Frenchmen, don't talk of your fighting, nor of the great deeds you have done

Themes:  Naval battles

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V285

Title: Rob Roy MacGregor

First Line: Pardon now the bold outlaw

Subjects:  MacGregor, Robert (Rob Roy), 1671-1734

Harding B 11(315)

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Edition - Bod12714

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 75


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 24883

Title: The woodman

First Line: Far remov'd from noise and smoke

Themes:  Woodcutting

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5668

Title: The king! God bless him

First Line: A goblet of Burgundy, fill, fill for me

Harding B 11(4311)

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Edition - Bod12880

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey St., Newcastle

Series Identifier: 85


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 182

Title: Young Edwin in the Lowlands low

First Line: Come all you wild young people, and listen to my song

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V12024

Title: Flora's lament for her Charlie

First Line: It's you [sic] bonny banks, and yon bonny braes

Harding B 11(4363)

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Edition - Bod12959

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 90


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V20754

Title: Worth of a husband

First Line: Come all you married women, who have husbands kind & true

Themes:  Marriage - women

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 466

Title: The lover's lament for her sailor

First Line: As I was a walking all on the sea-shore

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 11(4328)

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Edition - Bod13031

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: Printed and sold by W. and T. Fordyce, 15, Grey str.

Series Identifier: 72


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 518

Title: The rambling soldier

First Line: I am a soldier blithe and gay

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5932

Title: Oysters, sir

First Line: Many a knight and lady gay

Themes:  Street traders

Harding B 11(3228)

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Edition - Bod13657

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1832 and 1842

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 15, Grey Street, Newcastle

Notes:  Harding B 11(430) is another issue, with a different imprint.

Series Identifier: 201


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 541

Title: Braes o' Balquhither

First Line: Let us go, lassie, go

Tune: Three carls o' Buchanan

Authors:  Tannahill, Robert, 1774-1810

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 12735

Title: Nix my dolly, pals, fake away

First Line: In a box of the stone jug I was born

Authors:  Ainsworth, W.H.

Themes:  Crime - 19th centurySlang

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V1171

Title: Kate Kearney

First Line: O did you not hear of Kate Kearney

Harding B 11(431)

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Edition - Bod13760

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, Dean Street, Newcastle

Series Identifier: 14


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 18353

Title: Caller herring

First Line: Come buy, buy my herring

Themes:  Street tradersCries of London

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V27153

Title: Pirate's boat song

First Line: Ply the oars, brothers, and speed thy boat

Themes:  Piracy

Harding B 11(520)

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Edition - Bod13768

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle. To be had also at 24, Humber Dock Street, Hull

Series Identifier: 57


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V317

Title: The canvass spread

First Line: Freight, brothers, freight, aboard repair

Themes:  Sailors

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V15237

Title: Remember me

First Line: Remember me -- when far from home

Authors:  Bell, George

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 11(530)

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Edition - Bod13874

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle. And at 43, Myton Gate, Hull

Series Identifier: 133


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V7867

Title: The collier's hymn

First Line: Come all you humble and Christian colliers

Themes:  ReligionCoalmines and mining

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4161

Title: The mariner's compass

First Line: Ye sons of the main, who sail on the flood

Themes:  ReligionSailors

Harding B 11(645)

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Edition - Bod13889

Imprint Names:  Fordyce, W. and T.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  c.1840

Imprint: W. & T. Fordyce, Printers, 48, Dean-street, Newcastle. To be had also at No. 42, Myton Gate, Hull

Series Identifier: 112


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 8694

Title: Come under my plaidy

First Line: Come under my plaidy, the night's gaun to fa'

Tune: Johnny Macgill

Authors:  Macneill, Hector, 1746-1818

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5331

Title: History of Donald M'Neil

First Line: Donald M'Neil frae Scotland came

Themes:  DoctorsScots

Harding B 11(663)

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