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's Walk, Clerkenwell, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements and prose pieces. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918. Large format
Series Identifier: March's Royalty Songs 56
Title: Down in a cottage
First Line: Down in a cottage near a wood
Performers: Redfern, Sam
Title: The dear old stile
First Line: As twilight softly gathers round
Performers: Torr, Clara
Title: Loving tears
First Line: Ah love, the sun is sinking into the silent sea
Title: Little children
First Line: You are glad, O little children
Performers: Elliott, Meredyth
Title: Dreaming of home and mother
First Line: Dreaming of home, dear old home!
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Title: I was there
First Line: Now here I am in luck again I've been to see a fight
Performers: Kavanagh, J.H., d. 1907
Title: Dear mother, I've come home to die
First Line: Dear mother, I remember well
Title: He's in the Asylum now
First Line: The author of this song when young
Performers: Costello, Tom, 1863-1945
Title: Good old Mary Ann
First Line: Perhaps I'm right to think you've heard of good old Mary Ann
Performers: Murray, Slade
Title: Felise
First Line: While the soft twilights close
Title: The better land
First Line: I hear thee speak of the Better Land
Authors: Cowen, Frederick Hymen, Sir, 1852-1935
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Title: The life boat crew
First Line: Old England can boast of her heroes brave
Title: Only bubbles
First Line: Why what is the matter, my darling?
Title: Jeanie Gordon, or, A shilling and a kiss
First Line: Behold, among the Highland Lads
Title: Young country squire
First Line: There's a young country squire, so I have been told
Authors: Ware, George
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Title: The wolf
First Line: At the peaceful midnight hour
Authors: O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833
Title: Come and have a tiddley!
First Line: My dear wife's darling mother came
Performers: Fancourt, Tom
Title: That was before my time
First Line: I hear people say that us girls of to-day
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Title: Pretty mocking bird
First Line: Living echo, bird of eve
Authors: Morton, T. , Bishop, Henry Rowley, Sir, 1786-1855
Title: Excelsior
First Line: The shades of night were falling fast
Authors: Lindsay, Miss
Title: The beggar child's dream
First Line: The snow had robed the earth in white
Title: \"I can tell it by your bumps\"
First Line: Behold a man of science
Performers: Squire, Tom, d. 1891
Themes: Phrenology
Title: Aren't they pretty?
First Line: Of course, we all well know, the ladies like to go
Themes: Shopping
Title: Tiddy fol lol
First Line: There's a party I know, tiddy fol lol, tiddy fol lol
Title: I'm not
First Line: \"Appearance is deceptive\" -- that's a truth you may declare
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Encore! a bottle more
First Line: A long time in one house had lived
Title: Give me back my heart again
First Line: Give me back my heart again
Title: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
First Line: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Authors: Shakespeare, William
Performers: Arne, Michael, 1741-1786
Title: At eventide
First Line: 'Tis eventide, the sky is golden
Title: Trade marks
First Line: In every grade of business, since the days of Noah's ark
Performers: Beauchamp, George
Title: Heart's ease
First Line: In thy garden blooms a flower
Performers: Heald, Joseph
Title: We drew his club money this morning
First Line: Micky Rooney went and joined
Performers: Rowley, J.W., 1847-1925
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: A free lance am I
First Line: My sword by my side, I merrily ride
Performers: Federici, Frederick, d. 1888
Title: Starlight
First Line: Starlight only shone above you
Title: Because she ain't built that way
First Line: Why is it a woman can't climb up a tree
Performers: Hunter, G.W.
Title: Oh! Mr. Jackson
First Line: Behold in me a victim of a House of Lords' decision
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Randall, Harry, 1860-1932
Title: Marnie's wedding
First Line: Come over the hills with garlands and flowers
Title: Illustration
First Line: In singing songs most people have their own peculiar style
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: Beautiful sleep!
First Line: Sleep! sleep! beautiful sleep
Title: Is it wrong to kiss?
First Line: Is it wrong to kiss asked a timid maid
Title: The emigrant ship
First Line: See yon vessel, in the harbour
Performers: Leyton, George, 1864-1948
Title: That awful yeo ho!
First Line: The sailors were seated in a ring
Performers: Roberts, Egbert
Title: Deserted by declining years
First Line: Deserted by declining day
Title: \"He said to me\"
First Line: A lady fair with terra cotta hair
Authors: Hickman, C.D.
Performers: Pelham, Paul
Themes: Prostitution
Title: The girl was young and pretty
First Line: I'll sing a song with a moral about
Attributation: Written Composed & Sung by Charles Chaplin
Authors: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Performers: Chaplin, Charles, d. 1901
Title: I couldn't get in!
First Line: One morn, on pleasure I was bound
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865
Performers: Bignell, Charles
Title: Ivanhoe
First Line: Now ladies do not think for a moment I'm a single man
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: A tale of the sea, or Shipwrecked
First Line: Winds were howling, waves were raging
Authors: McGlennon, Felix
Title: Fishing
First Line: When two little boys going out for the day
Performers: Squire, Tom, d. 1891
Title: Thine only thine
First Line: One golden eve long years ago
Title: Adieu or Radoo
First Line: Radoo, Radoo, kind friends Radoo, Radoo, Radoo
Title: Gently does the trick
First Line: Some people in this world go very much too fast
Performers: Corney, Arthur
Title: 'Ave a glass, won't yer?
First Line: [I] ain't a particular strong-minded chap
Title: True love lives long
First Line: I sat at the open lattice, and heard the billows roar
Title: Fatherland
First Line: When Saxon Alfred rul'd our land, and strove to make his people great
Subjects: England
Themes: Patriotism
Title: Fairweather friends
First Line: I used to have a bosom friend, I used to call him Jack
Title: Poor thing
First Line: Sal Smith was a nice girl, but so shy, poor thing!
Authors: Morton, Richard
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Title: The old home down on the farm
First Line: When a boy I used to dwell
Authors: DuBois, Gustavus
Performers: Howard, H.J.
Title: After long years
First Line: The Christmas log is burning bright
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
Title: The cross of St. Paul's
First Line: When the moors are blue with heather, and the autumn breezes blow
Title: Flowers from home
First Line: Flowers from home! her pale cheek flushes
Title: The other day
First Line: Tis well nigh twenty years agone
Title: England is England still
First Line: There are those in the dear land of England
Performers: Rowley, J.W., 1847-1925