Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: Bound apprentice to a waterman
First Line: Bound 'prentice to a waterman, I learnt a bit to row
Themes: Sailors
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Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: London Printed at the Office of J. Sharp, No. 30, Kent Street, Borough
Notes: Part of a sheet of three ballads; see Johnson Ballads 1147.
Title: The Highland soldier
First Line: My Highland soldier is come home
Themes: Soldiers, Scottish
Notes: Slip. Slip. The illustrations and the text are separately printed items.
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Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: A life by de galley fire
First Line: A life by de galley fire
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Sandy boy
First Line: As I went down to shore
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Printed and Sold by J. Sharp, 30, Kent Street
Title: Susannah do'nt you cry
First Line: I'm a goimg [sic] to Alabama
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Will you love me then as now?
First Line: You have told me that you loved me
Title: Katty darling
First Line: The flowers are blooming Katty darling
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: Mary Blane
First Line: I ouce [sic] did love a pretty gal
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The blighted flower
First Line: I had a flower within my garden growing
Themes: Seduction
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: J. Sharp, Printer, No. 30, Kent Street, Borough
Notes: With: Toasts.
Title: My uncle is a gentleman
First Line: While mirth's in the true ascendant, and goodly cheer is found
Tune: The old English gentleman
Themes: Money , Poor law , Pawnbrokers
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: My skiff is by the shore
First Line: I'm gawn, 'I gwan to see my lovely Dina
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Lubly yeller gal
First Line: Oh, bless dat lubly yeller gal
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: Come over the moonlit sea, love
First Line: Come o'er moonlit sea, love
Notes: The text and the illustration are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(1392)
Title: Grand conversation under the rose
First Line: As Mars and Minerva was viewing of some implements
Themes: Politics and government
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street
Title: Grand conversation under the rose
First Line: As Mars and Minerva was viewing of some implements
Subjects: United States , Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Title: Jeannot, farewell to Jeannette
First Line: Cheer up, cheer up, my own Jeanette, tho far away I go
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: The great sea shark
First Line: I hope you all will list to me
Themes: Shipwreck , St. Paul's cathedral$zLondon , Giant fish
Title: I'm a cove what never holloas
First Line: It's if you list I now with glee
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: J. Sharp, Printer, No. 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: The jolly sailor
First Line: A jolly Jack Tar but a little while since
Themes: Sailors
Title: Such a getting out of bed
First Line: Oh, is it not most strange to think
Themes: Infants
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: The maid of the Rhine
First Line: Thou dark rolling river how gladly for ever
Subjects: Germany
Themes: Rhine, river
Title: The sweet singing birds
First Line: Come, buy my sweet singing-birds, full of fine song
Themes: Street traders
Title: Old England God bless her
First Line: Now a bumper of wine come fill fill around
Tune: King god bless him
Subjects: England
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Ellen, the maid of the moor
First Line: The lasses of Scotland are bonny & free
Subjects: Scotland
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: The steam arm
First Line: O! wonders, sure, will never cease
Title: The golden glove
First Line: A wealthy young squire of Tamworth we hear
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer Kent Street, Borough
Title: Miss Lucy Long
First Line: Oh now I come afore you
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Travelling tinker
First Line: You must know me -- I'm Tinker Joe
Tune: Nix my Dolly
Themes: Tinkers
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: J. Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: Poor dog Tray
First Line: On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Dogs
Title: I'm afloat! I'afloat [sic]
First Line: I'm afloat, I'm afloat, on the fierce rolling tide
Authors: Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Themes: Piracy
Title: The four-leaved shamrock
First Line: I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock
Authors: Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough, London
Title: Old king Cole
First Line: Old king Cole was a merry old soul
Notes: A parody
Title: Two orphan girls
First Line: Two orphan girls the tother day
Themes: Orphans
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Printed and Sold by J. Sharp, 30, Kent Street
Title: The ruined cock sparrow
First Line: The gloom of night had vanished
Title: Oh, rum seller!
First Line: My home was once a cheerless place
Tune: Oh, Susannah
Authors: Knapp, Martin
Themes: Temperance
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent-street, Boro'
Title: The blue bells of Scotland
First Line: Ah, where and ah, where, is your Highlaud [sic] laddie gone
Subjects: Scotland
Title: Happy moments
First Line: In happy moments, day by day
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Printed and Sold by J. Sharp, No. 30, Kent Street, Boro'
Title: A prisoner's rhyme or A skit on the turnkeys of Gullford gaol, in 1834
First Line: Come listen my lads, and a story I'll tell
Themes: Gaols
Title: Mary to her cot return'd
First Line: Mary lov'd an honest sailor
Title: Betsy of the vale
First Line: In yonder vale there doth reside
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: The storm
First Line: Cease rude Boreas, blustering railer
Authors: Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Sharp, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Sharp, Printer, 30, Kent Street, Borough
Title: Mary Blane
First Line: [I] once did love a pretty gal
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
