Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Notes: See Firth b.28(1a) for imprint. With a poem, an advertisement, and toasts.
Series Identifier: Portrait Series [Fred. Harvey] 4
Title: It wasn't me
First Line: Before I got married and lost all my wool
Authors: Osborne, Charles
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Themes: Drinking
Title: Little children
First Line: You are glad, O little children
Performers: Elliott, Meredith
Title: Makes you feel uneasy, doesn't it?
First Line: There are times when nearly all men
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Kathleen, asthore
First Line: In an old Irish home sat an old Irish farmer
Performers: MacNally, Jessie
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Edge one!
First Line: If you're out upon the ramble
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Love's ever at love's side
First Line: Love, you are in the hills
Title: The night I played Richard the Third
First Line: I always had a fancy to come out upon the stage
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Themes: Theaters
Title: Little mud cabin
First Line: In this wide, dreary, world, sad and friendless, alone
Performers: Fielding, Ben, 1849-1893
Title: As in a looking glass
First Line: Seen, as in a looking glass are our thoughts where'er we go
Performers: Hylton, Millie, 1868-1920
Themes: Countryman in London , Social criticism
Title: Parody on Comrades!
First Line: We were boozers chums together, old Jack Brown and I
Themes: Drinking
Title: Loving tears
First Line: Ah love, the sun is sinking into the silent sea
Title: Friends were saying good-bye
First Line: One day at the docks I stood watching the ships
Authors: St. Clair, F.V.
Performers: LeBlanc, Marie
Themes: Emigration - Irish
Title: Lover's lane
First Line: There's a sylvan path enchanting to all sweethearts in all times
Title: That was me
First Line: In a quarter of London well-known as the Dials
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Subjects: London (England)
Themes: Amusements
Title: Starlight
First Line: Starlight only shone above you
Title: The wild man of Borneo has just come to town
First Line: The wild man of Borneo has just come to town
Performers: Two Macs
Title: Oh, take care of it
First Line: A careful man I've always been
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Our society
First Line: We joined a new socity I took the oath to-day
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: My dog and my gun
First Line: Let gay ones and great make the most of their fate
Authors: Arne, Michael, 1741-1786
Title: My sweeetheart [sic] when a boy
First Line: Tho' many gentle hearts I've known
Title: Our flat
First Line: Jones and I the other day were rather short of tin
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Title: Queen of my heart
First Line: I stand at your threshold sighing
Title: All thro' sticking to a soldier
First Line: If you gaze upon my \"chivey\" you will see I've got the hump
Performers: Lundberg, Ada, 1850-1899
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Tiddy fol lol
First Line: There's a party I know, Tiddy fol lol, tiddy fol lol
Themes: Social status , Amusements
Notes: See Firth b.28(1a) for imprint. With a poem, an advertisement, and toasts. The illustration is coloured. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918
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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