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Edition - Bod4851

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V25222

Title: Bread and cheese, and kisses

First Line: One night my sweetheart came to woo

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V2139

Title: The new national patent steam washing company

First Line: Dukes, bishops, earls, lords, they have all got a share

Tune: Noddin

Performers:  Taylor, C.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Themes:  Laundrymen

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V1243

Title: The hearty good fellow

First Line: I am a hearty good fellow

4th Ballad - Roud Number: V3731

Title: The full new moon

First Line: The full new moon is old my love

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V2891

Title: Just like love

First Line: Just like love is yonder rose

Authors:  Strangford, Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount, 1780-1855

6th Ballad

Title: [None]

First Line: Nurse of smiles! come, soothing hope

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say

8th Ballad - Roud Number: 1040

Title: Among the green bushes, &c

First Line: As I walk'd through the meadows one morning in May

9th Ballad - Roud Number: 8476

Title: Blink o'er the burn

First Line: Young Sandy is a dowdy lad

10th Ballad - Roud Number: V23443

Title: Lira, lira, la

First Line: Little thinks the townsman's wife

11th Ballad - Roud Number: V18660

Title: The pigs among the roses

First Line: The pigs in Gaffer's garden stray'd

12th Ballad - Roud Number: 250

Title: Jock o' Hazel Dean

First Line: Why weep ye by the tide lady?

Authors:  Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832

Performers:  Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864

13th Ballad

Title: A favourite song

First Line: Tho' I am now a very little lad

Tune: My love was born in Aberdeen

14th Ballad - Roud Number: 8516

Title: My ain kind deary, O

First Line: Will ye gang o'er the lee-rig

Performers:  Broadhurst, Mr.

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V1152

Title: Hole in the ballad

First Line: Your laughter I'll try to provoke

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

Themes:  Ballads

16th Ballad - Roud Number: V14806

Title: Brixton in a morning. A parody on Shakespeare's Hark, the lark

First Line: Hark the kids their darbies ring!

Johnson Ballads fol. 30

Notes:  Title cropped. One ballad has been cut out from the right hand column.


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Edition - Bod1272

Imprint Names:  Such, H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1863 and 1885

Imprint: London: H. Such, Machine Printer, & Publisher, 177, Union Street, Borough, S.E.

Notes:  Harding B 11(2763) is another edition.

Series Identifier: 304


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2360

Title: Dechrarian [sic] O'Machree

First Line: I am a young fellow that always loved rural sport

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Oh, life's a days journey to you I will say

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V941

Title: Wilt thou be my bride Kathleen

First Line: Oh, wilt thou be my bride, Kathleen

2806 b.11(269)

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Harding B 11(4256)

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Harding B 11(4256A)

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Edition - Bod1595

Imprint Names:  Armstrong, W.

Imprint Locations:  Liverpool

Date  between 1820 and 1824

Imprint: Armstrong, Printer, Banastre-St. Liverpool


Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say

2806 c.17(33)

Notes:  Slip. Originally formed sheets with 2806 c.17(86) and 2806 c.17(87).


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2806 c.17(34)

Notes:  Slip. Originally formed sheets with 2806 c.17(86) and 2806 c.17(87).


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Edition - Bod2386

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


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V437

Title: The sun his bright rays

First Line: The sun his bright rays may withold [sic] love

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V27180

Title: Sweet William

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

Harding B 11(3696)

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Edition - Bod15928

Imprint Names:  Andrews, J.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: Andrews', Printer, 38 Chatham St., N.Y.


Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: The birds of a feather

First Line: Oh! life's a days journey to you I would say

Harding B 18(40)

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Edition - Bod16365

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Oh! life's a day's journey, to you I will say

2806 c.17(36)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(70).


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Edition - Bod18565

Imprint Names:  Kiernan, J.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Imprint: Manchester: Printed and Sold at J. Kiernan's, Garden-street, Shude-hill


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V22690

Title: Sailor boy capering ashore

First Line: Poll dang it how dost do

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 276

Title: Jack on the Green

First Line: It was in the month of May

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V342

Title: Kiss the charming fair

First Line: Oh how I love the ladies' sweet rosy lips to buss

4th Ballad - Roud Number: 1179

Title: Freemason's song

First Line: Come all you Freemason's that dwell around the globe

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V932

Title: Oh! 'tis love

First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love

6th Ballad - Roud Number: 7758

Title: Billy Barlow

First Line: O when I was born, says old Mother Goose

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 23546

Title: Oldham recruit

First Line: When au wur a young lad 16 years ago

8th Ballad - Roud Number: 906

Title: Sweet silver moon

First Line: As I went to my cot at the close of the day

9th Ballad - Roud Number: 13785

Title: Heart that can feel for another

First Line: Jack Steadfast and I were both messmates at sea

10th Ballad - Roud Number: 13810

Title: Plato's advice

First Line: Says Plato why should man be vain

11th Ballad - Roud Number: V5636

Title: The exciseman

First Line: To a village that skirted the sea

12th Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: O life's a day's journey, to you I will say

13th Ballad - Roud Number: 348

Title: The sailor's bride

First Line: As William and Mary stray'd by the sea side

14th Ballad - Roud Number: V660

Title: If I had a donkey

First Line: If I had a donkey what would'nt go

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V7486

Title: Huntsmans chorus

First Line: What equals on earth, the delights [of] the hunstman

16th Ballad - Roud Number: V3350

Title: Jack's the lad

First Line: Our ship's in port, so here I be

17th Ballad - Roud Number: 6534

Title: Kitty of Colerain

First Line: As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping

18th Ballad - Roud Number: 13891

Title: Adieu my native land

First Line: Adieu, my native land adieu

19th Ballad - Roud Number: 2672

Title: Poor little sweep

First Line: On a cold winter's morn as the snow was a falling

20th Ballad - Roud Number: V13755

Title: Mary's lament

First Line: My heart will not break, my eyes wil[l] not weep

21st Ballad - Roud Number: 1247

Title: Garland of love

First Line: How sweet are the flowers that grow on yon fountain

Authors:  Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841

Notes:  Incomplete

Harding B 36(23)

Notes:  Torn at lower right corner


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Edition - Bod19101

Imprint Names:  Wright, W.

Imprint Locations:  Birmingham

Date  between 1820 and 1831

Imprint: [Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham]


Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Oh! life's a day's journey, to you I will say

2806 c.17(35)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(227) and 2806 c.17(334)


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Edition - Bod19160

Imprint Names:  Birt, T.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1828 and 1829

Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, (wholesale & retail,) 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London


Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say

Johnson Ballads 11

Notes:  Slip



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