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Edition - Bod2466

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1088

Title: The warbling waggoner

First Line: When first I went a waggoning

Themes:  Carriers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 889

Title: The bonny brown girl

First Line: First to this country a stranger I came

Harding B 11(4031)

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Edition - Bod10525

Imprint Names:  Hodges, E.M.A.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1855 and 1861

Imprint: E. Hodgest [sic] Printer, Wholesaie [sic] Toy and Marlbe [sic] Warehouse 26, Grafton Street Soho London


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13658

Title: The men of merry merrv [sic] England

First Line: Oh the men of merry merry England

Subjects:  England

Themes:  Patriotism

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 889

Title: Brown girl

First Line: When first to this country I came as a stranger

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 4717

Title: Molly astore

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

Harding B 11(2400)

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Edition - Bod20875

Imprint Names:  Such, H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1849 and 1862

Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer and Publisher, 123 Union St., Boro'.

Series Identifier: 45


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1010

Title: Doran's ass; or, The straw hat

First Line: One Paddy Doyle lived near Killarney

Themes:  IrishDrunkenness

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 889

Title: Brown girl

First Line: When first to this country I came a stranger

Themes:  Social statusIndies

2806 b.11(255)

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Harding B 11(948)

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Edition - Bod22826

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 889

Title: Brown girl

First Line: When I came to this country

2806 c.8(168)

Notes:  Slip


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