Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: R. March & Co., 18, St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements. Large format
Series Identifier: R. March's Copyright Edition 889
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu, adieu, my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: Saved by a child
First Line: 'Twas a golden, radiant Sabbath morn
Performers: McKay, Iver
Themes: Religion
Title: Serenade -- \"Dreaming\"
First Line: Forest and meadows in moonbeams are dreaming
Attributation: Sung by Master Frank Peskett and Mr. Stedman's Choir Boys
Performers: Peskett, Frank , Mr. Stedman's Choir Boys
Title: The scent of the roses
First Line: I open an ancient casket
Performers: Cole, Belle, 1845-1905
Title: The singer's wish
First Line: If the songs I have sung find a place in your heart
Title: So did Uncle Charley
First Line: For three months I've been on the Q T
Title: So are we all, dear boys!
First Line: I'm one of the fellows who never say die
Performers: Vance
Title: So it was
First Line: I have a most confiding wife
Performers: Macdermott, Gilbert Hastings, 1845-1901
Title: So much the better for you
First Line: To you that have plenty of money I say
Performers: Bonehill, Bessie, d. 1902
Title: The shy young girl
First Line: While walking in the park, my friends
Attributation: Written and sung by Charles Clifford
Authors: Clifford, Charles
Performers: Clifford, Charles
Title: The soldier's dream
First Line: Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lower'd
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Military
Title: That's the only bit of comfort I have got
First Line: Some day -- well so they tell me, we shall all be better off
Themes: Family life
Title: 'Twere better so!
First Line: All around the flow'rs are fading
Performers: Myers, Clara
Title: She's changed by boots for a set of jugs
First Line: \"What is it?\" and \"Where has it sprung from?\"
Themes: Domestic economy
Title: A soldier of fortune am I
First Line: Yes a soldier of fortune am I
Performers: Martin, J.B. , Mohawk Minstrels
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Soldier Jim
First Line: For a \"rogue about town\" you could safely set down
Themes: Military
Title: She may have gone to Germany
First Line: Oh frailty thy name is woman
Title: The silent choir
First Line: I wander'd one moonlight evening
Themes: Ruins
Title: Something rather dangerous, something rather nice
First Line: To pass away the time I will endeavour
Title: She was
First Line: I sing of Martha my dear wife
Themes: Domestic relations
Title: She called in a broker
First Line: I'm not going to sing that she's marmalade jam, or anything like it so sweet
Authors: Johnson, Bob , Page, Charles
Themes: Domestic relations
Title: She's a daisy
First Line: My Mary Ann's a teacher in a great big School Board school
Themes: Education
Title: Swinging to and fro
First Line: If you want to give your girl a treat, I'll tell you what to do
Attributation: Written, composed, and sung by John Read
Authors: Read, John
Performers: Read, John
Themes: Amusements
Title: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
First Line: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
Subjects: Scotland
Title: She boxed my ears with a frying pan
First Line: I am a chicken hearted man
Performers: Windley, Harry
Themes: Domestic violence
Title: The scarlet runners
First Line: The scarlet runners we are called
Themes: Military
Title: Salisbury and Gladstone
First Line: A few days ago whilst I was in town
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Home Rule - Ireland
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The seat in the chimney corner Or, How's that for sixty- three?
First Line: Oh! It's more than forty years ago
Themes: Old age
Title: Snowdrops and violets
First Line: Snowdrops and violets, laden with dew
Title: Somebody whispered so sweetly
First Line: Where is the harm if she met him
Title: Six months' hard
First Line: Last week while passing Bow Street I had nothing much to do
Performers: Campbell, Herbert, 1844-1904
Subjects: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 1834-1892 , Irving, Henry, 1838-1905
Themes: Courts and law , Exeter Hall (London, England)
Title: Signor Macstinger
First Line: I sing of a feminine gender
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: The squire, or, \"Far from the madding crowd\"
First Line: Squire Squeekem was a male, and he had been so from his birth
Performers: Godfrey, Charles, 1851-1900
Themes: City vs. country , Rural society
Title: She thought she might as well
First Line: Katie at the garden gate
Title: So are we all, dear boys!
First Line: I'm one of the fellows who never say die
Performers: Vance
Title: Songs of childhood
First Line: Songs of childhood! how they haunt us
Performers: Elliott, Meredyth
Title: Shoulder to shoulder
First Line: The storm long brewing's burst at last
Themes: War
Title: I've done it
First Line: It's a well-known fact that we often go out on the spree
Authors: Wincott, H.
Performers: Bignell, Charles
Title: Too sweet to last
First Line: When in the calm and tinted sea
Title: Two sides to a hedge
First Line: This side the hedge, two \"golden youths\"
Title: The sultan's daughter
First Line: The Sultan's daughter, dreaming, stood
Performers: Vagnolini, Marie
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Performers: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: Sleep, my loved one!
First Line: Sleep, the shades of night are falling
Title: Tzim! tzim! tzig-a-zig-zigs
First Line: A countess, if he signs the deed
Attributation: Comic duet sung by Madlle. Vanoni and Mr. Arthur Roberts
Performers: Vanoni, Marie , Roberts, Arthur, 1852-1933
Title: Something went wrong with the works
First Line: I'm in an awful rage to-night
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Sowing and reaping
First Line: Forth went a youth a ploughing, in grey and chilly dawning
Themes: Agricultural laborers , Rural society
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Title: Two singers
First Line: Two singers loved the daughter of a king
Title: The beggar child's dream
First Line: The snow had robed the earth in white
Title: Think of this, think of that
First Line: Mrs. Brown she had a daughter whose age was seventeen or more
Attributation: Written, composed and sung by John Read
Authors: Read, John
Performers: Read, John
Themes: Marriage - women
Title: St. George, and merry England
First Line: There are three nations on the earth
Performers: Graham, Ada
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Sing on
First Line: Old age with many a genial grace
Performers: Pierpoint, Bantock
Title: Such a mash!
First Line: A creature whom I know, whom I know, whom I know
Performers: Power, Nelly, 1851-1887
Title: Sophia phia phia
First Line: There is a very pretty girl whom I admire
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: Sweet lavender
First Line: 'Twas only a loving look, by blue eyes fondly thrown
Title: The sun shines bright at last
First Line: Dear Jenny you remember how I told you long ago
Performers: Fielding, Ben, 1849-1893
Title: Sally with the coal black eye
First Line: Oh, Sally is the girl that won my heart
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: [Squee]ze my little finger
First Line: This world's made up of sweets and sours
Performers: Ripon, George, d. 1908
Title: Speak to me
First Line: Why turn away when I draw near
Title: Solomon's proverbs
First Line: I'm Solomon the second, and I've very often reckon'd
Performers: Hunter, G.W.
Title: The smugglers
First Line: From Brighton two Paddies walked under the cliff
Themes: Irish
Title: Under the greenwood tree
First Line: Under the greenwood tree
Title: Sweet chiming bells
First Line: Like a dream ye came to cheer me
Title: Sweet little blue eyed Nell
First Line: Although I'm not a tip top swell
Title: Stop it!
First Line: If there's one thing more than another I hate
Title: The Swiss toy seller
First Line: From Switzerland I come to you
Themes: Immigrants - Great Britain
Title: The Shoreditch handicap
First Line: When I went out last Easter time to Epping's calm retreat
Performers: Randall, Harry, 1860-1932
Title: Send that cook to me
First Line: Kind people pray attention pay
Themes: Servants
Title: The soldier dolly
First Line: There once was a sweet tiny maiden
Title: A song for other days
First Line: \"Sing oh! -- the land, the slighted land\"
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Politics and government - Ireland, 19th century
Title: She'd kept them all for me
First Line: The lady I have made my wife was once a sweet young miss
Performers: Lloyd, Arthur, 1840-1904
Title: Susan Sweet
First Line: Miss Susan Sweet's a charming girl, whose face is like her name
Performers: Leybourne, George, 1842-1884
Title: Shreds and patches
First Line: While the yule log bright is burning
Themes: Poverty
Title: The soldier's return
First Line: We parted with a cheerful smile
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: Richard March & Co., St. James's Walk, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918
Series Identifier: March's Edition of New Songs and Ballads
Title: Unfit for publication
First Line: I am really the most virtuous young fellow in creation
Themes: Entertainments , Theaters , Music halls
Title: I'm fond of eating, fond of drinking
First Line: Sammy Fly it is my name
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Title: Come kiss, let's be friends
First Line: The course of true love ne'er ran smooth
Title: A raspberry tart with a little poke bonnet
First Line: Behold in me a real gone coon
Themes: Excursions
Title: The captain with his whiskers
First Line: As they march'd thro' the town with their banners so gay
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The empty cradle, baby's gone
First Line: Little empty cradle, treasur'd now with care
Title: Madame Rachel, or, Beautiful for ever
First Line: Oh, ladies, have you heard the news, the topic of the day?
Themes: Frauds , Marriage brokers
Title: When Tom comes home
First Line: Now, Bessie my darling, come dry up your eyes
Themes: Sailors , Lovers parted
Title: Oh what a lark!
First Line: Sally Jones, she was a widow
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Title: Here's another kind love
First Line: While strolling out the other night a friend of mine, Joe Blake
Themes: Drinking
Title: My heart is in a flutter
First Line: My heart is in a flutter
Performers: Harcourt, George
Title: Who shaved the pig?
First Line: The name I bear is Sammy Strop
Authors: Pinder, J. , Dodsworth, J.
Performers: Wynne, John
Themes: Barbers
Title: Never marry your mother-in-law
First Line: There's a very old saying as old as the hills
Title: My Katty, kiss 'em
First Line: I've caught at last my Katty dear
Title: Make it as smooth as you can
First Line: As we travel through life many people we meet
Title: In memory of the gallant 24th
First Line: They left the shores of Old England
Tune: I don't mean to tell you her name
Authors: March, Richard
Themes: Zulu War, 1879
Title: The military
First Line: I am so fond of the army, a soldier's life would charm me
Performers: Zimmer, Maggie (Mrs. H.R. Skinner), d. 1893
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Oh! ain't it pe-cu-li-ar
First Line: If to blow my own trumpet I may be so bold
Title: On the banks of the silvery Thames
First Line: She lived with her ma, and her crusty da-da
Title: A scientific simpleton
First Line: A scientific simpleton who struggled fame to gain
Title: Ever of thee
First Line: Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming
Title: Nellie, or Ten past nine
First Line: I'm off to my appointment now
Title: There's another jolly row down stairs
First Line: I'm one of those fellows who like quiet life
Title: My sweet forget-me-not
First Line: My love's a little blue-eyed girl
Title: Oh sweet Selina!
First Line: A poet midst his midnight oil
Title: A cheer for our gallant 24th
First Line: As often before I have told you
Performers: Davies, Minnie
Themes: Military , Zulu War, 1879
Title: O Fred, tell them to stop
First Line: No doubt you have heard of the great Fancy Fair
Title: Angels guard her now
First Line: Hush, tread lightly, do not wake
Title: Flirting with the fairies
First Line: A fig say I for quietude, I am the boy for fun
Title: Hey for the life of a soldier
First Line: When I was an infant, gossips would say
Title: Farewell to Jumbo
First Line: Poor Jumbo's going to leave us all
Tune: Auld lang syne
Themes: Entertainments , Zoos
Title: The contented blacksmith
First Line: The blacksmith sings from morn till night
Title: It's bound to be right in the morning
First Line: I've heard men say when married they could not go out at night
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu, adieu, my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title: I'm so modest and retiring
First Line: I'm a girl so very bashful
Title: Peter and Paul
First Line: Now Peter and Paul were remarkable chaps
Authors: Anthony, George
Performers: Martell, Harry
Title: Meggie and Jo
First Line: I'm a happy-go-lucky, gay sort of chap, I dance and I sing all the day
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: Mary had a little lamb
First Line: Mary, sweet Mary, the maid of the inn
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Our marriage bells are ringing
First Line: Our marriage bells are ringing
Title: The never-empty cradle or Cradle's crowded -- twins is born
First Line: Never empty cradle! though you're in my care
Themes: Family life
Title: Grandmother's watch. The popular reply to \"Grandfather's clock\"
First Line: My Grandmother's watch was of wonderful make
Title: Oh! dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye
First Line: Oh! dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye
Title: Oh! ain't I having a day
First Line: I'm a happy-go-lucky, gay sort of a chap, I dance and I sing all the day
Title: \"Our ship\"
First Line: Blow! blow! blow! the storm is at its height
Themes: Sailing
Title: Swinging to and fro
First Line: If you want to give your girl a treat, I'll tell you what to do
Themes: Amusements
Title: Send that cook to me
First Line: Kind people pray attention pay
Themes: Servants
Title: The old village school
First Line: 'Tis standing there yet, though the stern hand of time
Themes: Rural society
Title: Out on the tiles
First Line: A little mouse once told me that
Performers: Leybourne, George, 1842-1884
Title: \"Outside, please!!\"
First Line: I'm one that Nature's rounded on
Authors: Yarnold, Fred
Performers: Yarnold, Fred
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Oh, dear me
First Line: I once fell in love with a fair young lady
Title: Ettie, hear the blue bird sing
First Line: Ettie, hear the blue bird sing
Title: Oh, you pretty soul
First Line: I met a lass the other day
Title: Oh, what a beauty
First Line: Maria loved the Squire and the Squire so they say
Themes: Countryman in London
Title: Old friend, here's your good health
First Line: I like the man who's jolly
Title: St. George, and merry England
First Line: There are three nations on the earth
Performers: Graham, Ada
Themes: Patriotism , United Kingdom
Title: Oh! Father, dear Father, the brokers are in
First Line: Oh! father, dear father, come home with me now
Themes: Drunkenness
Title: \"Once more, Harry!\"
First Line: I'm a true-hearted fellow, so gay and so free
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Something rather dangerous, something rather nice
First Line: To pass away the time I will endeavour
Title: If England to herself be true
First Line: Where'er St. George's banner waves
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Good bye, Emily Jane
First Line: No doubt you will be awfully sad
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: I say, cabby!
First Line: I'm known as the Earl of St. James's
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Dandies
Title: It is not on the Battle-field
First Line: It is not on the Battle-field
Title: Just after the battle
First Line: Still upon the field of battle
Themes: War
Title: Happy Ann
First Line: I've lately joined the Army
Performers: Graham, Ada
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: Over the garden wall
First Line: Oh, my love stood under the walnut tree
Title: Oh, dem golden slippers!
First Line: Oh, my golden slippers am laid away
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: All round the squares
First Line: My friend[s] all say I'm half insane
Themes: Courtship - difference in social status
Title: My heart's in the Highlands
First Line: My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here
Title: A rolling stone gathers no moss
First Line: As we pass along life, how many we see
Title: Tommy's birthday
First Line: I live with my respected Ma and little sisters three
Performers: Francis, James
Title: The ring my mother wore
First Line: The earth has many treasures rare, in gems and golden ore
Title: When shall I send you a cradle
First Line: Young Brown was about to get married and he
Themes: Family life
Title: Quite the lady
First Line: While walking one night beneath the gas light
Themes: Prostitution
Title: Mother, he's going away
First Line: \"Sure now what are you crying for, Nelly?\"
Themes: Irish
Title: The family man or Father, what have you got for us?
First Line: A family man you see in me
Title: The lash
First Line: Hush, niggers all, de old man's sleeping
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Now you are married I wish you joy
First Line: When I was a child how I used to play
Title: Leave it alone
First Line: When I was a boy I oft got in a row
Title: One kiss more
First Line: Eyes are bright, teeth are white
Performers: Sisters Leamar
Title: Is there any harm in that?
First Line: I am a simple maiden
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
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Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Soldiers
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1802 and 1819
Imprint: Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great st, Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Title: Soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Jennings, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1790 and 1840
Imprint: Printed and sold by Jennings, 15, Water-lane, Fleet street, London
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Wheeler, J.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date c.1837
Imprint: Printed for J. Wheeler
Title: Soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Dickinson, B.W.
Imprint Locations: York
Date between 1823 and 1834
Imprint: Printed for B.W. Dickinson, High Peter-gate
Title: Paddy Carey
First Line: 'Twas at the town of nate Clogeen
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The soldier's adieu
First Line: Adieu, adieu, my only life
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Soldiers
