Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Wholesale Toy & Marble warehouse, 6, Great st Andrew-street 7 dials
Title: The lad with his carrotty poll
First Line: Oh dear good gentlefolks may it be said
Themes: Red hair
Title: Highland Mary
First Line: Ye banks and braes and streams around
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Themes: Death
Title: Answer to Sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Title: See the conq'ring hero comes
First Line: See the conq'ring hero come
Title: Pretty Polly Hopkins
First Line: He - Pretty pretty Polly Hopkins how do you do?
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Sweet Mary of the dale
First Line: As blythe I tript the other morn
Imprint Names: Croshaw, C.
Imprint Locations: York
Imprint: C. Croshaw, Printer, Pavement, York
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and pallaces [sic]
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Title: Answer to Home, sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Catnach, Printer, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Johnson Ballads 152 is another edition.
Title: Answer to Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Themes: Unrequited love
Title: Sweet home. With an additional verse
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1823
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Dashing serjeant
First Line: If I had a beau, for a soldier would go
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Women soldiers
Title: The shady bowers
First Line: I'll range around the shady bowers
Title: The ramble
First Line: Twas at midsummer's tide, no matter the day
Title: Amoret and Phyllis
First Line: Sweet Phyllis well met, the sun is just set
Title: Lullaby
First Line: Peaceful slumbr'ing on the ocean
Themes: Sailors
Title: A favourite pastoral
First Line: Flocks are sporting, doves are courting
Title: The Cambrian minstrel boy
First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray
Performers: Longhurst, Master
Title: The beautiful maid
First Line: When absent from her my soul holds most dear
Title: Is not it a pity
First Line: I lov'd a lad, a handsome lad
Performers: Tonstall, Miss
Title: The happy shepherd
First Line: With the sun I rise at morn
Title: Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Tune: Sweet, sweet home
Authors: C., J.
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Lowland Mary
First Line: Flow'ry spring has deck'd the dale
Authors: C., J.
Title: Sweet Mary of the dale
First Line: As blythe I tript the other morn
Title: The fairy. A midnight madrigal
First Line: Fairest of the virgin train
Title: The garden gate, a favourite song
First Line: The day was spent, the moon shone bright
Themes: Marriage
Title: Helen the fair. A new song
First Line: Fair Helen one morn from her cottage had stray'd
Title: Where roses wild
First Line: Where roses wild were blooming
Title: The willow tree
First Line: Don't you remember the vows to tender
Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 17A is damaged and the title is cut off
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Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 17A is damaged and the title is cut off
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials
Title: Sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Notes: With an additional verse
Title: Answer to Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Title: Parody on Sweet home
First Line: I courted a fair maid, and lov'd her so dear
Themes: Domestic strife
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Notes: See Harding B 11(4026).
Title: The wandering boy
First Line: When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor
Authors: White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: The mariner's compass
First Line: Sam spritsail's a lad you delight in
Themes: Sailors
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife
First Line: The tale is true I've often heard
Themes: Taverns , Domestic relations
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Title: Answer to Home, sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Catnach, Printer, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Johnson Ballads 153 is another edition.
Title: Answer to Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Themes: Unrequited love
Title: Sweet home. With an additional verse
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Notes: See Firth b.26(467/468)
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Notes: With an additional verse. Appears also in a sheet of eight ballads; see Firth b.26(467/468)
Title: Answer to Home, sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray
Notes: Appears also in a sheet of eight ballads; see Firth b.26(467/ 468)
Themes: Seduction
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1823]
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: Dashing serjeant
First Line: If I had a beau for a soldier would go
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Women soldiers
Title: The moon is on the hill
First Line: Awake, my light, my sleeping love
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Evening bells
First Line: Those ev'ning bells, those ev'ning bells
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Themes: Bells
Title: The shady bowers
First Line: I'll range around the shady bowers
Title: Wreath the bowl
First Line: Wreath the bowl with flow'rs of soul
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Themes: Wine
Title: The ramble. Music and love
First Line: 'Twas at midsummer's tide, no matter the day
Title: A favourite pastoral
First Line: Flocks are sporting, doves are courting
Title: The Cambrian minstrel boy
First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray
Performers: Longhurst, Master
Title: The beautiful maid
First Line: When absent from her my soul holds most dear
Title: Will Watch, the bold smuggler
First Line: 'Twas one morn when the wind from the north it blew keenly
Title: The happy shepherd
First Line: With the sun I rise at morn
Title: Amoret and Phyllis
First Line: Sweet Phyllis well met, the sun is just set
Title: Lullaby
First Line: Peaceful slumbr'ing on the ocean
Title: Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Tune: Home, sweet home
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Sweet Mary of the dale
First Line: As blythe I tript the other morn
Title: The fairy. A midnight madrigal
First Line: Fairest of the virgin train
Title: The garden gate, a favourite song
First Line: The day was spent, the moon shone bright
Title: Helen the fair. A new song
First Line: Fair Helen one morn from her cottage had stray'd
Title: Where roses wild
First Line: Where roses wild were blooming
Title: Lowland Mary
First Line: Flow'ry spring has deck'd the dale
Title: The willow tree
First Line: Don't you remember the vows to tender
