Titles:
Wait till the clouds roll by, Billy!
First Lines:
Billy our grand old champion
Subjects:
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Titles:
The tax on gin
The tax on gin!
First Lines:
There's something new starts every day
Subjects:
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes:
Gin
Taxation
Titles:
A new song on The downfall of heresy
First Lines:
Good people all attention pay
Subjects:
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes:
Church of Ireland - Establishment and disestablishment
Religious controversy - Ireland
Titles:
An imaginary dialogue between Gladstone and a working man
First Lines:
You working men are discontented
Subjects:
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes:
Working class
Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin
Notes: 2806 c.9(18) is another issue.
Title: A new song on The hireing of the servants
First Line: Good people all attention pay unto those l[i]nes that I relate
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Hiring fairs , Prices
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Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P. Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin
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Title: A new song on The hireing of the servants
First Line: Good people all attention pay unto those l[i]nes that I relate
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Hiring fairs , Prices
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Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1849 and 1862
Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer, 123 Union Street, Boro'.
Title: The tax on gin!
First Line: There's something new starts every day
Imprint Names: See, C. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Imprint: Printed & Published by Chas. See & Co., 353, Edgware Road, W.
Notes: With an advertisement for \"The Pioneer,\" weekly literary magazine
Title: In memoriam. O'er Gladstone's tomb
First Line: O Gladstone! Thou art no more!
Authors: Webb, G.H.H.
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 246
Title: I likes a drop of good beer
First Line: Come neighbours all, both great and small
Notes: The text is different from Harding B 11(1635)
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Taxation , Sunday , Beer
Title: It's no use teasing Polly
First Line: 'Twas on a summer's day
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Notes: Firth c.16(231) is another issue.
Title: An imaginary dialogue between Gladstone and a working man
First Line: You working men are discontented
Authors: Herdman, William
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Working class
Imprint Names: Brookes, C.E.
Imprint Locations: London
Imprint: London: C.E. Brookes, Loughboro' Printing Works, Loughboro' Junction, S.W. Dorchester: J.A. Brookes & Co.
Title: Wait till the clouds roll by, Billy!
First Line: Billy our grand old champion
Imprint Names: Protestant Literature and Art Depository
Imprint Locations: London
Imprint: The Protestant Literature & Art Depository, 37, Aldermanbury, E.C.
Title: Infernior!
First Line: The clouds of night had gathered fast
Tune: Excelsior
Authors: S., H.M.
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Religion
Imprint Names: Sudbury and Wenham
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1898]
Imprint: Sudbury & Wenham, Printer, 187, Westbourne Grove, W.
Title: William Ewart Gladstone ... An eulogy
First Line: William the victor! England's uncrowned king!
Authors: H., A.A.
Imprint Names: Gage, M. and Co.
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date [c.1880]
Imprint: Published by the Author, and Sold by Messrs M. Gage & Co., 73 Bell Street, Glasgow
Title: The grand old man
First Line: The grand old man's come back again
Imprint Names: Liverpool Corn Trade News
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Imprint: Printed and Published by the \"Liverpool Corn Trade News\" Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., 4, Brunswick Street
Title: \"Ireland blocks the way\"
First Line: What Gladstone says to the working men
Tune: Vive la Compagnie
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Home Rule - Ireland
Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date
c.1867
Title: A new song on The downfall of heresy
First Line: Good people all attention pay
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Religious controversy - Ireland , Church of Ireland - Establishment and disestablishment
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Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin
Title: A new song on the hireing fairs of Ulster
First Line: Good people all atention [sic] pay
Subjects: Ireland , Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Hiring fairs , Tenant farmers , Prices
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Titles:
I likes a drop of good beer
First Lines:
Come neighbours all, both great and small
Come one and all, both great and small
Subjects:
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Themes:
Sunday
Drinking
Beer
Taxation
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Date [1881]
Series Identifier: 180
Title: As the bells did chime for church
First Line: I took a stroll last Sunday morn just for a change of air
Subjects: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 , Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Themes: Times , Shipping accidents
Title: I dreamt my little boy of thee
First Line: I dreamt my little boy of thee
Imprint Names: Hopwood and Crew
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1880]
Imprint: Published by Hopwood & Crew, London
Title: Here! Here! Here!
First Line: I'm a member for Manchester square
Subjects: Transvaal (South Africa) , Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896 , Bright, John, 1811-1889
Themes: Police , South African War, 1880-1881 , Orating
Title: The ship went down to the bottom of the sea!
First Line: To prove I loved sweet Jenny Jones, I went away a year to- day
Attributation: Written by Joseph Tabra, Esq., for Harry L. Rickards
Authors: Tabra, Joseph
Performers: Rickards, Harry, 1848-1911
Subjects: Brighton (England)
Themes: Shipwreck , Railways , Golddigging , Giant fish
Imprint Names: Disley, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1860 and 1883
Imprint: Henry Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles, London. W.C.
Title: Captain Jinks's dream. A conversation on the coming elections, between Bill Gladstone and Ben Dizzy
First Line: Your attention I claim
Authors: Embleton, John
Subjects: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 , Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Imprint Names: Fortey, W.S.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1867]
Imprint: London: Printed at the \"Catnach Press,\" by W. Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials
Title: The great Reform bill
First Line: You noble patriots of reform
Subjects: Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896 , Bright, John, 1811-1889
Themes: Parliamentary reform, 1867
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
Titles:
The general election
First Lines:
Oh dear, what a fuss and a bother
Subjects:
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, Viscount, 1811-1892
Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896
Kenealy, Edward Vaughan Hyde, 1819-1880
Themes:
Taxation
Parliamentary elections, 1874
