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Edition - Bod1207

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson Printer 6 Chadderton Street Off Oldham Road Manchester

Notes:  2806 c.16(130) is another impression.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5928

Title: The tripe supper

First Line: Well my friends you all must agree

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 9059

Title: Norah M'Shane

First Line: I've left Ballymornach a long way behind me

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

Firth c.26(16)

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Edition - Bod1208

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Machine Printer 4 and 6 Chadderton Street, Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  2806 c.16(155) is another edition.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13864

Title: The maid of Llangollen

First Line: Though lonely my cot, and though poor my estate

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V17626

Title: Riding on the tramway

First Line: It was on one summer's evening, not very long ago

Performers:  Travers, Hyram

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V15346

Title: Out in the cold!

First Line: Gazing on noblemen's mansions of splendour

Themes:  Poverty

Firth c.26(5)

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Edition - Bod1209

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, Chadderton St., Oldham Rd., Manchester

Series Identifier: 182


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 372

Title: The British man of war

First Line: It was down in yonder meadows I carelessly did stray

Themes:  Naval

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 4717

Title: Molly ashtore

First Line: As down on Banna's banks I strayed

Subjects:  Ireland

Firth c.26(66)

Notes:  Imprint of J.O. Bebbington has been defaced


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Edition - Bod1214

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Machine Printer 4 and 6 Chadderton Street, Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 588


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 18372

Title: All among the hay

First Line: Though I'm what is called a \"swelll\" [sic]

Notes:  Verse and prose

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 3272

Title: Paddy Magee

First Line: Faith here comes Paddy Magee, Magee, Magee

Firth c.26(32)

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Edition - Bod1224

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 6, Chadderton St, Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 96


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 536

Title: William and Harriet

First Line: Its of a rich gentleman near London did dwell

Themes:  Courtship - difference in social statusTransvestismWomen sailors

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2365

Title: Colleen Rhue

First Line: As I was walktng [sic] one summers morning

Themes:  Pastoral

Firth c.26(65)

Notes:  Imprint of J.O. Bebbington has been defaced


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Edition - Bod1225

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 and 6, Chadderton St, Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  2806 c.16(219) is another impression.

Series Identifier: 571


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3044

Title: Wonder at crime

First Line: I've been thinking of late, I've been thinking

Themes:  Crime - 19th centuryWorking class

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4617

Title: Curly headed Nell

First Line: As I took a promende [sic] the other day

Performers:  Walker, Alfred

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V27198

Title: Killarney

First Line: By Killarney's lakes and fells

Subjects:  Ireland

Firth c.26(71)

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Harding B 11(775)

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Edition - Bod1227

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Printed by T. Pearson, Machine Printer, 4 and 6, Chadderton Street Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  2806 c.16(112) is another impression.

Series Identifier: 697


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1847

Title: Out with my gun in the morning

First Line: I live a jovial country life

Themes:  Shooting

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 4193

Title: I have no mother now

First Line: I hear the soft winds sighing

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 1764

Title: The gipsy's warning

First Line: Do not trust him gentle lady

Themes:  Seduction and abandonmentGipsies

Firth c.26(85)

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Edition - Bod1232

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  Firth c.26(273) is another issue.

Series Identifier: 736


1st Ballad

Title: Esmeralda

First Line: Where is the little gipsy's home?

Authors:  Halliday, Andrew, 1830-1877

Performers:  Rudersdorff, Hermine, 1822-1882

Themes:  Gipsies

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V29736

Title: Do everyone as you can!

First Line: John Henry Sharp, is my name

Themes:  Gambling

Firth c.26(115)

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Edition - Bod1239

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Manchester: T. Pearson, Printer, 4, and 6, Chadderton Street

Series Identifier: 774


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V16294

Title: Love! love!! or, Scrumptious love

First Line: Love, love, oh! what is love?

Performers:  Leybourne, George, 1842-1884

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V20171

Title: The un-seaworthy ship

First Line: The doomed ship weighs anchor, out she's bound

Tune: Driven from home

Authors:  Smith, J.

Themes:  Shipwreck

Firth c.26(223)

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Firth c.26(251)

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Edition - Bod1240

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Notes:  See 2806 c.16(172)

Series Identifier: 716


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V20242

Title: The showman

First Line: My name is Bill the showman

Performers:  Alberts, Mark

Notes:  Verse and prose

Themes:  Entertainments

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1616

Title: There's bound to be a row

First Line: I'm a poor unlucky married man, I've such an awful wife

Notes:  Firth c.20(161) is another edition of this ballad alone.

Themes:  Domestic strife

Firth c.26(306)

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Edition - Bod1392

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Peurson [sic], Printer, 6, Chadderton-street, off Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 174


Ballad - Roud Number: 1189

Title: Grand conversation on Napoleon arose

First Line: It is over that wild beaten track, a friend of old Buonaparte

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

2806 c.16(29)

Notes:  Slip


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Harding B 16(332a)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod1467

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1616

Title: There's bound to be a row

First Line: I'm a poor, unlucky married man

Themes:  Domestic strife

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V14984

Title: Shy! shy!! dreadfully shy!

First Line: Had I been a monk or a hermit, that dwelt

Performers:  Leybourne, George, 1842-1884

2806 c.16(172)

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Harding B 11(3776)

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Edition - Bod1504

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 31 Oldham road, Manchester, sold by J. [Beaumont]

Series Identifier: 371


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2092

Title: The village born beauty

First Line: See the star-breasted villain to yonder cot bound

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 326

Title: My boy Tammy

First Line: Whar ha' ye been, a' day, my boy Tammy?

Firth b.27(59)

Notes:  Imprint imperfect


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Edition - Bod1573

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 741


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V14843

Title: The midnight ranger

First Line: I'm a boy that's fond of a midnight lark

Performers:  Bagnall, Sam, d. 1885

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4685

Title: Keep the ball rolling

First Line: Now I am such a jolly chap

Performers:  Melbourne, Tom

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V817

Title: There's a smile waiting for me at home

First Line: Troubles we fancy are heavy to bear

Attributation: Written, composed & sung by Harry Clifton

Authors:  Clifton, Harry, 1832-1872

Performers:  Clifton, Harry, 1832-1872

2806 c.16(137)

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Harding B 11(3775)

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Edition - Bod1575

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Notes:  Firth c.26(5) is another edition.

Series Identifier: 698


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13864

Title: The maid of Llangollen!

First Line: Though lonely my cot, and though poor my estate

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V17626

Title: Riding on the tramway

First Line: It was on one summer's evening, not very long ago

Performers:  Travers, Hyram

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V15346

Title: Out in the cold

First Line: Gazing on noblemen's mansions of splendour

Themes:  Poverty

2806 c.16(155)

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Harding B 11(3275)

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Edition - Bod1938

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 6, Chadderton street, Oldham road, Manchester

Notes:  Firth c.26(87) is another issue.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V716

Title: Grand conversation on O'Connell arose

First Line: Come all you sons of Erin's land and mourn the loss of noble Dan

Subjects:  O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V2045

Title: My own sweet native vale

First Line: I would not be a fairy light

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V292

Title: Bonny English rose

First Line: Old England's emblem is the rose

Subjects:  Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

2806 b.10(20)

Notes:  Imperfect: Imprint of J.O. Bebbington has been defaced.


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Edition - Bod1951

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 6, Chadderton-st.

Series Identifier: 502


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4263

Title: Just before the battle mother

First Line: Just before the battle, mother

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V880

Title: Burke's farewell

First Line: Farewell to the lands of my birth and adoption

Themes:  Home Rule - IrelandFenians

2806 b.10(122)

Notes:  2806 b.10(122) is torn at upper right corner, lacking part of illustration.


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Firth c.26(249)

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Edition - Bod1954

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Manchester: Printed and Published by T. Pearson, 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road

Series Identifier: 14


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 983

Title: Patrick Shean; of the glen of Aherloe

First Line: My name is Patrick Shean, my years are thirty-four

Authors:  Kickham, Charles Joseph, 1826-1882

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V6007

Title: Slap up lodgings

First Line: When first to town I came, and at the railway landed

2806 b.10(204)

Notes:  Damaged at upper right corner.


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Edition - Bod5370

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Pearson, Printer, 6, Chadderton-street, off Oldham-road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 423


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V4649

Title: The insult to the British flag by the saucy Yankees

First Line: Come all you gallant Britons bold

Themes:  American Civil War, 1861-1865Cotton textile industry

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3123

Title: Arise my dear Chloe

First Line: Arise, my dear Chloe it is all a broad day

Themes:  Pastoral

Firth c.12(73)

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Edition - Bod5485

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Printed by T. Pearson, Machine Printer, 4, and 6, Chadderton Street, Manchester

Series Identifier: 5


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V2832

Title: Sally likes her beer

First Line: I'se Rodger Rough, a plough boy

Themes:  Drinking

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V906

Title: Cambria's minstrel boy

First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 3693

Title: It's funny when you feel that way

First Line: I sha'nt forget how queer I felt

Performers:  Coyne, Fred

Notes:  Verse and prose

2806 c.16(103)

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Harding B 11(522)

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Edition - Bod5486

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Notes:  Firth c.26(85) is another impression.

Series Identifier: 697


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1847

Title: Out with my gun in the morning

First Line: I live a jovial country life

Themes:  Hunting

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 4193

Title: I have no mother now

First Line: I hear the soft winds sighing

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 1764

Title: The gipsy's warning

First Line: Do not trust him gentle lady

2806 c.16(112)

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2806 c.16(144a)

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Harding B 11(1632)

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Harding B 11(2894)

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Edition - Bod5596

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Manchester: T. Pearson, Printer, 4, & 6, Chadderton Street, Oldham Road

Series Identifier: 66


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V4620

Title: My love Nell

First Line: Come all ye boys, both far and near

Subjects:  IrelandAmerica

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13790

Title: Kitty Tyrell

First Line: You're looking as fresh as the morn, darling

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Rural societyMarriage proposals

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V2038

Title: Rory of the hills

First Line: At Slievenamon the man who asked me was Scully dead?

Authors:  Walsh, I.

Themes:  Land tenure - Ireland

Firth b.26(102)

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Edition - Bod5682

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 6 Chadderton Street, Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 205


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13873

Title: Burial of sir John Moore

First Line: Not a drum was heard nor a funeral note

Authors:  Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823

Subjects:  Moore, John, Sir, 1761-1809

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 16967

Title: John Anderson my jo

First Line: John Anderson my jo John

Authors:  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

Firth c.14(21)

Notes:  The imprint of J.O. Bebbington has been defaced


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Edition - Bod5692

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer & Stationer, 4 and 6, Chadderton Street, Oldham Road, Manchester

Series Identifier: 782


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5573

Title: I wonder how far they will go

First Line: Some people have nerve, which their purpose to serve

Authors:  Clarance, Lloyd, 1849-1939

Performers:  Durden, RichardTravers, HyramClarance, Lloyd, 1849-1939

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 9697

Title: Pat O'Hara

First Line: Oh, I am an Iirsh [sic] boy, my heart is full of glee

Firth c.16(216)

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Edition - Bod5696

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: [T. Pearson] Printer [...] Oldham-road, Manchester [...]

Series Identifier: 302


Ballad - Roud Number: V1603

Title: Emigrant's farewell to old England

First Line: As walking near the docks at Liverpool, I heard some emigrants to say

Themes:  Emigration

Firth c.16(375)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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