Imprint Names: Dean, R. and W. and Co.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date
c.1805
Title: Spanking Jack
First Line: Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant so jolly
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Naval
Title: Old Towler, a favourite hunting song
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Notes: MS note in pencil at bottom of page, identifying printer.
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Imprint Names: Hodges, E.M.A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1846 and 1854
Imprint: Hodges, Printer, (from Pitt's) Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street, 7 Dials
Title: King of the Cannibal islands
First Line: Oh! have you heard the news of late
Themes: Savages
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: R. March & Co., 18, St. James' Walk, Clerkenwell, London
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements and prose pieces. Large format
Series Identifier: March's Royalty Songs 109
Title: My Katty Kiss'em
First Line: I've caught at last my Katty dear
Performers: Roberts, Arthur, 1852-1933
Title: More than ever
First Line: Topical songs are now the rage, more than ever!
Performers: Macdermott, Gilbert Hastings, 1845-1901
Title: Lover's lane
First Line: There's a sylvan path enchanting to all sweethearts in all times
Title: A song for other days
First Line: Sing, oh! -- the land, the slighted land
Themes: Irish
Title: The man at the wheel. Or, Why did she leave me?
First Line: Behold me, the Captain of a steamboat
Performers: Seymour, Frank, d. 1891
Title: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
First Line: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
Title: The unfinished song
First Line: One day I was sad and weary
Title: Where the flow'rets grow
First Line: Sing on ye little birds
Performers: Danvers, Johnny, 1865-1939
Title: Unchanging love
First Line: I loved her years and years ago
Title: Up in the gallery on a Saturday night
First Line: I am a boy that enjoys myself
Attributation: Written and sung by Frederick Williams
Authors: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Performers: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Title: Old maids & young maids
First Line: In this glorious city, London, there are many sights we see
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: The little banjo boy
First Line: I never knew a father's love, a mother's tender care
Title: Snowdrops and violets
First Line: Snowdrops and violets, laden with dew
Title: Gently does the trick
First Line: Some people in this world go very much too fast
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Three young ladies
First Line: Once, standing in a London street, three ladies met my gaze
Performers: Tilley, Vesta, 1864-1952
Themes: Social status
Title: Thady and I
First Line: I was a simple country girl
Attributation: Dedicated to, and sung by Madame Mary Roze, Miss Mary Davies and Miss Adelaide Mullen
Performers: Roze, Mary , Davies, Mary , Mullen, Adelaide
Title: Mary Green
First Line: Close beside a running brook just outside the town
Authors: Lamb, Henry
Title: Pardoned
First Line: The minster bells have ceased to peal
Title: Meadow sweet
First Line: When first we met 'twas in a meadow
Title: Up he went like a rocket
First Line: A short time ago in the papers
Performers: Anderson, Harry
Title: When those we love return once more
First Line: Tis only when the sad farewell
Performers: Bruce, Ernest
Title: Trade marks
First Line: In every grade of business, since the days of Noah's ark
Performers: Beauchamp, George
Title: She stood behind the parlour door
First Line: A certain girl once courted me, called Mary Ann Maloney
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Told by the cards
First Line: I take up the pack and I deal out the cards
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: That's evidence
First Line: When a man says a friend he will be to the end
Performers: Rawlins, W.H., d. 1927
Title: Fare thee well, my heart's best treasure
First Line: Fare thee well, me heart's best treasure
Performers: Murska, Alma de
Title: The singer's wish
First Line: If the songs I have sung find a place in your heart
Title: That's impossible
First Line: I've often heard some people say
Performers: Bignell, Charles
Title: Meet me at de golden gate
First Line: The time is short and life is sweet
Title: There is a flower that bloometh
First Line: There is a flow'r that bloometh
Title: It pays so much better than work
First Line: I will mention a few little things in this song
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: The fire king
First Line: The fire king rose with a mighty voice
Title: The female salvation dragoon
First Line: I walked in the City one day
Tune: D---d scamp
Authors: Chadwick, James
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: 'Twas better so
First Line: Said the maiden with a sigh
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Authors: Sheild
Title: Oh, dear me
First Line: I once fell in love with a fair young lady
Title: Wreck of the lifeboat
First Line: In an old fashioned cottage that stands on the cliff
Performers: Chester, Alfred
Title: When I was a young thing
First Line: Oh! when I was a young thing, many years ago
Title: Storm and calm
First Line: Of storm and calm this life is made
Performers: Lennard, Arthur, 1868-1954
Title: She was right
First Line: Of all the artful women it has
Performers: Joyce, Sid
Title: Then the show begins
First Line: Hi! hi! hi! now don't delay, walk up and be in time
Authors: Babbington, Charles
Performers: Rowland, Frank
Title: Treasure trove
First Line: 'Twas off the coast of Normandy, a coast of great renown
Title: Mutual pity
First Line: Tom, ever jovial, ever gay
Title: The golden guineas
First Line: When I was young in the days of yore
Authors: Weatherly, F.E. , Maybrick, Michael, 1844-1913
Performers: Foli, Allen James, 1842-1899
Title: The better land
First Line: I hear thee speak of the better land
Authors: Cowen, Frederick Hymen, Sir, 1852-1935
Title: She thought she might as well
First Line: Katie at the garden gate
Title: The old organ loft
First Line: I loved, in my childhood's moments
Performers: Oswald, Charlie, d. 1898
Title: When you come to drink of it
First Line: What the doctor gives you looks as red as the rose
Authors: Dales, George
Themes: Doctors
Title: What can you expect for your money?
First Line: No wonder we find a depression in trade
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: The woodman
First Line: Far remov'd from noise and smoke
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: Somebody's secret
First Line: O, somebody had a secret
Title: Don't talk to me about invasion
First Line: In the days of good queen Bess in history we read
Performers: Nash, John, 1838-1901
Title: Dancing round the apple tree
First Line: I courted Miss Matilda Jane, a girl of seventeen
Title: She wanted to go to the Derby
First Line: I once fell in love with a duck of a girl
Title: The warder's story, or Waiting to hear the verdict
First Line: In the public service sad cases I've met
Performers: Chester, Alfred
Themes: Prisons , Crime - 19th century
Title: Only a little love token
First Line: Only a stroll in the spring of the year
Performers: French, A.W.
Title: Love will wake
First Line: They say that love can never sleep
Title: Somebody whispered so sweetly
First Line: Where is the harm if she met him
Title: Untasted sweets
First Line: Cousin Bertha and her brothers
Title: The time is coming
First Line: Some say I'm seeking place, and
Subjects: Gordon, Charles, 1833-1885
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Parliamentary reform, 1867
Title: Whenever the sleigh bells jingle
First Line: There's not a heart that doesn't start
Title: Timothy Titus
First Line: Now, \"What's in a name?\" says Shakespeare
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title: The whistling wife
First Line: You've heard about the latest fad
Performers: Randall, Harry, 1860-1932
Title: My heart is in a flutter
First Line: My heart is in a flutter
Performers: Harcourt, George
Title: Why do I love
First Line: Why do I love you Janet mine?
Title: Shoulder to shoulder
First Line: The storm long brewing's burst at last
Title: The medical student
First Line: I'm a medical student I am
Title: They're after me
First Line: To be a man sought after ev'rywhere is rather sweet
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: You men you think you're tricky
First Line: When boys and girls meet they think they are in love
Performers: Cavendish, Nellie
Title: A song of the Ganges
First Line: The sun was gone the forest slept
Authors: Weatherly, F.E. , Moncrieff, L., Mrs.
Performers: Gomez, Alice, d. 1922
Subjects: India
Title: That moved him
First Line: A quiet little street is mine, and quietness is right
Authors: Morton, R.
Performers: Rudd, Austin
Title: Hush and sleep
First Line: The roaring waves are dashing loud
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: Sweetheart
First Line: I stand beneath the trysting tree
Title: Gladness or sadness
First Line: I heard it that day when we said good-bye
Title: Her boy, or she was standing upon the quay
First Line: From the harbour at Queenstown, one bright summer's day
Authors: Wilmott, Charles , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: Timothy Tubbs
First Line: Tim Tubbs was very tubby and
Performers: Lennard, Arthur, 1868-1954
Imprint Names: Conolly, C.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Imprint: Dublin. Printed and Published by C. Conolly, 36, Camden- Street
Title: The adieu
First Line: We'll miss her at the morning hour
Authors: Landon, Miss
Title: What is fancy?
First Line: What is fancy? can it fly
Authors: Power, R.
Title: The minstrel boy
First Line: The minstrel boy to the war is gone
Title: Farewell to the love that was aching for you
First Line: Farewell to the love that was aching for you
Authors: Power, R.
Title: O, Erin, the land of the fair and the bold
First Line: Fair lake, whose bright crystal of beautiful waters
Authors: Collard, W.F.
Title: All that's bright must fade
First Line: All that's bright must fade
Authors: Moore
Title: Here we meet too soon to part
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Title: The Bay of Biscay, O
First Line: Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder
Authors: Cherry, A. (Andrew), 1762-1812
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: For glory and for liberty
First Line: Hail to the brave! and hail to the land!
Authors: Richardson, D.L.
Themes: War
Title: Mr. Barney O'Bother
First Line: When first I was married to Katty O'Connor
Themes: Irish
Title: How sweet are the moments when Fanny is nigh
First Line: How sweet are the moments when Fanny is nigh me
Title: Love's gay garland's intertwine
First Line: Spring will not last, Oh! maiden mine
Title: Oh! blame not the bard
First Line: Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers
Themes: Irish
Title: The soldier's last sigh
First Line: The trumpet may summon the soldier away
Authors: Belchambers
Themes: Irish
Title: Where the grassy turf
First Line: Where the grassy turf, o'erhung with willow
Themes: May day
Title: The Irish school
First Line: Old Teddy O'Rook kept a nice little school
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Irish
Title: Farewell
First Line: Farwell; if ever fondest prayer
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Title: Though I'm now a very little lad
First Line: Though I'm now a very little lad
Tune: White cockade
Performers: Malcolm, Miss
Title: Battle of Waterloo
First Line: There was a sound of revelry by night
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Themes: Waterloo, battle of, 1815
Title: What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man
First Line: What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: The widow's story
First Line: I left my friends their game to play
Authors: Furlong
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticlear proclaims it dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: Young Colin stole my heart away
First Line: The fields were green the hills were gay
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Jack of the green
First Line: It was in the pleasant month of May when flowers they were green
Themes: Seduction
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Notes: Appears also in a sheet of eight; see Firth b.26(467/468)
Themes: Hunting
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Notes: Appears also in a sheet of eight ballads; see Firth b.26(467/ 468)
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Notes: See Harding B 11(4026).
Title: The wandering boy
First Line: When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor
Authors: White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: The mariner's compass
First Line: Sam spritsail's a lad you delight in
Themes: Sailors
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife
First Line: The tale is true I've often heard
Themes: Taverns , Domestic relations
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Title: Answer to Home, sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray
Imprint Names: Cadman, J.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1850 and 1855
Imprint: Cadman, Printer, Ancoats, Manchester
Series Identifier: 95
Title: Claughton wood poachers
First Line: Come all you men of courage bold, come listen unto me
Themes: Courts and law , Poaching
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Notes: Part of a sheet of eight. See Firth b.26(467/468) Part of a sheet of eight. See Firth b.26(467/468)
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Imprint Names: Dean, R. and W. and Co.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date c.1805
Imprint: R. & W. Dean & Co. Printers, Manchester
Title: Tom Tackle
First Line: Tom Tackle was noble, was true to his word
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Sailors
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Hodges, E.M.A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1846 and 1854
Imprint: Hodges, Printer, (from Pitt's) Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street, 7 Dials
Title: King of the Cannibal islands
First Line: Oh! have you heard the news of late
Themes: Savages
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, Preston
Series Identifier: 514
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Walker, J.
Imprint Locations: Durham
Artists: Bewick, Thomas
Date 18--
Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham
Series Identifier: 83
Title: The three butchers
First Line: It was Ips, Gips, and Johnson as I have heard many say
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
