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Edition - Bod4749

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Stationer, &c. ... Street ...

Series Identifier: 80


Ballad - Roud Number: 1189

Title: The grand conversation on Napoleon

First Line: It was over that wild beaten track, a friend of bold Bonaparte

Subjects:  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Firth c.16(92)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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Edition - Bod1229

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer & Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate), Glasgow

Series Identifier: 55


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2681

Title: Phoebe Morel or The slave's dream

First Line: I had a dream a happy dream

Themes:  Slavery

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 845

Title: Johnny my man

First Line: O Johnny my man do you no think on rising

Themes:  Drunkenness

2806 c.13(44)

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2806 c.14(46)

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Edition - Bod1236

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and wholesale stationer, &c., 9 King street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Notes:  Firth c.20(37) is another issue with a different cut

Series Identifier: 160


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V8211

Title: I wish I was lying alone

First Line: You ladies have pity on me

Themes:  Marriage

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V159

Title: A bachelor's wants

First Line: Come all you single women if you wish to change your life

Authors:  Youd, J.

Themes:  Marriage

2806 c.13(163)

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Edition - Bod1244

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Notes:  The same setting of type, except for the title, as 2806 c.14(8) but with a different first ballad.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V29741

Title: Cheer, boys, cheer medley

First Line: Cheer, boys, cheer! Tam Glen, and Maggy Lauder

Themes:  Ballads

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1692

Title: The woful marriage

First Line: On Monday night I married a wife

Themes:  HouseworkDomestic strife

2806 c.13(10)

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Edition - Bod1282

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 244


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V32985

Title: The drouthie chiel

First Line: The drouthie, drouthie chiel', wi' the red plooky face

Authors:  Miller, William, 1810-1872

Themes:  Drunkenness

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1156

Title: The labouring man

First Line: You Briton's bold of each degree

Themes:  Crimean War, 1853-1856Working class

2806 c.13(45)

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Edition - Bod1285

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Series Identifier: 25


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V16494

Title: The girl I left behind me

First Line: Now for America I'm bound

Themes:  Emigration

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4360

Title: The true-lover's farewell to Ireland

First Line: 'Twas of a summer's evening, as I went out to walk

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

2806 c.13(54)

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Edition - Bod1290

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, Glasgow

Series Identifier: 143


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13832

Title: Will you love me then as now?

First Line: You have told me that you love me

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1060

Title: Rosetta and the gay ploughboy

First Line: You constant lovers give attention

2806 c.13(78)

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Edition - Bod1297

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and wholesale stationer, &c., 9 King street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 72


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V483

Title: The Red barn tragedy

First Line: Come all you young lovers, I pray you attend

Themes:  Murder - 19th century

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1166

Title: General Monro

First Line: Come all you good people and listen to me

Subjects:  Munro, Henry, 1768-1798

2806 c.13(96)

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Edition - Bod1307

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, printer and wholesale stationer, &c., 9 King street, (off Trongate) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 22


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V9582

Title: Answer to ladies crinolines

First Line: Come all you young ladies and listen awhile

Themes:  Crinolines

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2656

Title: Gentle Annie

First Line: You will come no more gentle Annie

Themes:  Death

2806 c.13(138)

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Edition - Bod1317

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate) Glasgow


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1162

Title: My bonny labouring boy

First Line: As I roved out one morning it being the blooming spring

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3035

Title: The lively flea

First Line: Oh, a dainty old chap is the lively flea

Notes:  MS note below title: Parody on the \"Ivy green\"

Themes:  Fleas

2806 c.13(182)

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Edition - Bod1321

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and wholesale stationer, &c., 9 King street, (off Trongate) Glasgow ... Printing-Office, 28 Nelson Street, & 56 Trongate

Series Identifier: 119


1st Ballad

Title: The old arm chair

First Line: I love it, I love it, and who shall dare

Authors:  Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889

Themes:  Mothers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 21419

Title: The Russians are coming! Or, the finishing stroke

First Line: The Russians are coming to Scotland they say

Themes:  Crimean War, 1853-1856

2806 c.13(201)

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Edition - Bod1328

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Notes:  Duplicate of part of 2806 c.14(81) Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads. See 2806 c.14(81)

Series Identifier: 160


Ballad - Roud Number: V1221

Title: My lovely lowland Caroline

First Line: Soft rolls Clyde's bonny silver stream

Themes:  Death

2806 c.14(182)

Notes:  Slip.


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Edition - Bod1329

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, 9 King street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 86


Ballad - Roud Number: 7064

Title: The poor drunkard's child

First Line: In taking of my walks on a cold winter's day

Themes:  Drunkenness

2806 c.13(292)

Notes:  Slip


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Harding B 15(242a)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod1332

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow ... Printing Office, 28 Nelson Street, & 56 Trongate

Series Identifier: 16


Ballad - Roud Number: 7940

Title: The spiritual railway

First Line: The line to heaven by Christ was made

Themes:  Jesus Christ

2806 c.13(323)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod1335

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Wholesale Stationer, &c., 11 King Street, (City), Glasgow


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 12510

Title: Country hirings

First Line: Come all you blooming country lads and listen unto me

Themes:  Hiring fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V7844

Title: Standard on the braes of Mar

First Line: The standard on the braes o' Marr

Themes:  Jacobite Rebellion, 1715

2806 c.14(14)

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Edition - Bod1336

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Wholsale [sic] Stationer, &c., 11 King Street, (City) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 26


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 24308

Title: The Scottish emigrant's farewell!

First Line: Fareweel, fareweel, my native hame

Notes:  2806 c.14(16) is another impression but with a different second ballad

Themes:  Emigration - Scots

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 148

Title: Banks of sweet Dundee

First Line: It's of a farmer's daughter, so beautiful I'm told

2806 c.14(15)

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Edition - Bod1337

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay, Wholsale [sic] Stationer, &c., 11 King Street, (City) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 18


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 24308

Title: The Scottish emigrant's farewell!

First Line: Fareweel, fareweel, my native hame

Themes:  Emigration - Scots

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V957

Title: The boys of Ballinamore

First Line: Come all you young Irishmen that are inclined to roam

Themes:  Migrant labor - Irish

2806 c.14(16)

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2806 c.14(98)

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Edition - Bod1339

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, No 11 King Street, City, Glasgow

Series Identifier: 117


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4263

Title: Just before the battle

First Line: Just before the battle, mother

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V20451

Title: My Hieland hame

First Line: I canna leave my hieland hame

Subjects:  Scotland

2806 c.14(27)

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Edition - Bod1341

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 252


Ballad - Roud Number: V7423

Title: The first bawbee

First Line: Oh, nane I trow, on a' the earth

Tune: Comin' through the rye

Themes:  Money

2806 c.14(30)

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Firth b.25(534)

Notes:  Firth b.25(534); Imperfect: imprint mutilated.


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Edition - Bod1342

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, No. 11 King Street, City, Glasgow

Series Identifier: 40


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V29175

Title: Creep afore ye gang

First Line: Creep awa' my bairnie, creep afore ye gang

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2856

Title: Half-past ten

First Line: I mind when I courted my ain wifie Jean

2806 c.14(33)

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Edition - Bod1343

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer & Wholesale Stationer, 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 242


1st Ballad

Title: A new song on the peace

First Line: Good people, now, listen to what I do say

Themes:  Crimean War, 1853-1856

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 541

Title: Braes o' Balquhither

First Line: Let us go, lassie, go

Authors:  Tannahill, Robert, 1774-1810

2806 c.14(36)

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Edition - Bod1347

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Lindsay Wholesale Stationer, &c., 11 King Street, (City,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 35


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 713

Title: Mary's dream

First Line: The moon had climbed the highest hill

Authors:  Lowe, John

Themes:  GhostsShipwreck

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 3329

Title: Buudle [sic] an' go

First Line: Clyde's bonny hills whar the heather was blooming

2806 c.14(49)

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Edition - Bod1348

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 19


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13494

Title: Building castles in the air

First Line: The bonnie, bonnie bairn, wha sits poking in the ase

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3740

Title: Mick, the watchman

First Line: All you that's here, attend I pray

2806 c.14(50)

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Edition - Bod1350

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow

Series Identifier: 259


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V7681

Title: The wee lassie sitting at the door

First Line: There is a wee lassie sitting at the door a' her lane

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V1466

Title: The Wallace monument

First Line: Friends of freedom, sons of Scotland

Subjects:  Wallace, William, Sir, 1272-1305

2806 c.14(47)

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Edition - Bod1351

Imprint Names:  Lindsay, J.

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1851 and 1910

Imprint: Sold by James Lindsay, Printer and Wholesale Stationer, 11 King et [sic], (off Trongate), Glasgow

Series Identifier: 26


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 3326

Title: The bonnie lasses' answer

First Line: Farewell to Glasgow

Subjects:  Glasgow (Scotland)

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2310

Title: The black cook, or The doctor outwitted

First Line: I will tell you a trick, that was played the other night

Subjects:  Glasgow (Scotland)

Themes:  SailorsDoctorsBody-snatching

2806 c.14(57)

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