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Ballad Work - Roud Number: 3059

Titles:
The keel row

First Lines:
As I came through the Cannon-gate

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V14253

Titles:
Twenty-fower o'clock

First Lines:
Smash marras! hey ye heerd the tyel

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Themes:
Clocks
Advertising

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V6920

Titles:
Mustaches; or, The c---l and the fish wench
Mustaches; or The c---l and the fish wench

First Lines:
North side of Tyne a town does stand

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Themes:
Soldiers
Beards
Markets

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V1924

Titles:
Newgate stone
The Newcastle noodles

First Lines:
When Claude Duval was in Newgate thrown
Be easy, good folks, for we're all safe enough

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Themes:
Prisons

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V9447

Titles:
The Newcastle hoax! Or, The butler's alarm

First Lines:
One morning some fellows, \"with roguish intent\"

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Themes:
Theft
Servants
Frauds

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V5239

Titles:
Lamentation of Jane Jamieson, who was executed ... for the murder of her own mother
Lamentation of Jane Jamieson, who was executed at Newcastle, on Saturday, the 7th day of March, 1829, for the murder of her own mother

First Lines:
Good people all I pray draw near

Subjects:
Newcastle (England)

Themes:
Murder
Drunkenness
Drunkenness - women
Murder - 19th century

Edition - Bod4195

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.Ryle, A. and Co.

Imprint Locations:  LondonLondon

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: [first ballad] Ryle, & Co., Printers, 2, & 3 Monmouth-court Seven Dials [second ballad] J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth- Court, 7 Dials

Notes:  Harding B 11(1355) is another issue.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 141

Title: The golden glove

First Line: A wealthy young squire of Tamworth we hear

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 3059

Title: The keel row

First Line: As I came through the Cannon-gate

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 13787

Title: The minute-gun at sea

First Line: When in the storm on Albion's coas[t]

Themes:  Shipwreck

Johnson Ballads 1093

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Edition - Bod4847

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  [1829]

Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5485

Title: The wolf

First Line: At the peaceful midnight hour

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1617

Title: Will Witch the bold smuggler

First Line: 'Twas one morn when the wind from the northward blew keenly

Themes:  Smuggling

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 1644

Title: Low down in the broom

First Line: My daddy is a canker'd carle

4th Ballad - Roud Number: V2882

Title: Lilies and roses

First Line: The father of Nancy a forester was

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V1616

Title: With a helmet on his brow

First Line: With a helmet on his brow

Themes:  Military

6th Ballad - Roud Number: 16967

Title: John Anderson my jo

First Line: John Anderson my jo, John

Authors:  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

7th Ballad - Roud Number: V816

Title: Her mouth with a smile

First Line: Her mouth with a smile

8th Ballad - Roud Number: 1246

Title: Richmond hill

First Line: On Richmond hill there lives a lass

9th Ballad - Roud Number: 3858

Title: Birks of Invermay

First Line: The smiling morn, the breathing spring

10th Ballad - Roud Number: V4995

Title: Fall not in love

First Line: Fall not in love dear girls, beware

11th Ballad - Roud Number: V8947

Title: The gay guitar

First Line: Yes I will leave my father's halls

12th Ballad - Roud Number: V8188

Title: Love and glory

First Line: Young Henry was as brave a youth

Authors:  Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841

Themes:  Women soldiers

13th Ballad - Roud Number: 3059

Title: The keel row

First Line: As I came through the Cannon gate

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

14th Ballad - Roud Number: V757

Title: When a man's a little bit poorly

First Line: When a man's a little bit poorly

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V12264

Title: Pluck'd the fairest flower

First Line: I have plucked the sweetest flower

16th Ballad - Roud Number: V6714

Title: [Hope told a flattering tale]

First Line: Hope told a flattering tale

Johnson Ballads fol. 12

Notes:  MS note: Feb. 1829


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Edition - Bod5968

Imprint Names:  Birt, T.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1828 and 1829

Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V33240

Title: Huzza for the jacket so blue!

First Line: Here's a health to the sailor so true

Themes:  NavalGreek-Turkish war

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 3059

Title: The keel row

First Line: As I came through the Cannon-gate

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 25(878)

Notes:  Slip Slip


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Edition - Bod2438

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Imprint: Wm. Richardson & Co.'s American Houses, 5, Grainger St. West & 22, Collingwood St., Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: V14253

Title: Twenty-fower o'clock

First Line: Smash marras! hey ye heerd the tyel

Tune: Polly's nick stick

Authors:  H., J.

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  AdvertisingClocks

Harding B 11(3913)

Notes:  Stamped: Richards & Co., Watch and clock makers and importers, Newcastle-on-Tyne. [and] Wm. Richard & Co., American house, 5, Grainger St., West, Newcastle-on-Tyne.


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Edition - Bod11592

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad

Title: Franky Frisky's excorshun te the new seet i' Newcassel

First Line: It's hez the noo herd o' the seets te be seen

Tune: Canny Newcassel

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Exhibitions - Newcastle, 1887

Harding B 11(1256)

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Edition - Bod11920

Imprint Names:  Marshall, J.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1810 and 1831

Imprint: Marshall, Printer, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: V9447

Title: The Newcastle hoax! Or, The butler's alarm

First Line: One morning some fellows, \"with roguish intent\"

Authors:  Morrison, James

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  ServantsTheftFrauds

Harding B 11(2630)

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Edition - Bod12095

Imprint Names:  Stephenson

Imprint Locations:  Gateshead

Date  [1829]

Imprint: Stephenson, Printer, Gateshead

Notes:  Harding B 14(227) is another edition.


Ballad - Roud Number: V5239

Title: Lamentation of Jane Jamieson, who was executed ... for the murder of her own mother

First Line: Good people all I pray draw near

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  DrunkennessMurder

Firth c.17(231)

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Firth c.17(245)

Edition - Bod12257

Imprint Names:  Boag, W.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1825 and 1838

Imprint: W. Boag, Printer, Foot of Dean Street, Newcastle


Ballad

Title: Affair of honour!!! between \"The Spanish consul,\" and a scribe

First Line: Ye who delight in honour's deeds

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 11(22)

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Edition - Bod7162

Imprint Names:  Stephenson

Imprint Locations:  Gateshead

Date  [1829]

Imprint: Stephenson, Printer, Gateshead

Notes:  Firth c.17(231) is another edition.


Ballad - Roud Number: V5239

Title: Lamentation of Jane Jamieson, who was executed at Newcastle, on Saturday, the 7th day of March, 1829, for the murder of her own mother

First Line: Good people all I pray draw near

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Murder - 19th centuryDrunkenness - women

Harding B 14(227)

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Edition - Bod7649

Imprint Names:  Stephenson

Imprint Locations:  Gateshead

Date  between 1821 and 1850

Imprint: Stephenson, Printer, Gateshead


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6920

Title: Mustaches; or, The c---l and the fish wench

First Line: North side of Tyne a town does stand

Authors:  Holling, J.

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  SoldiersMarketsBeards

2nd Ballad

Title: Aqu{ae} pur{ae}; or, Bob's well and the vicar's pump

First Line: Within that street where lives the vicar

Authors:  Holling, J.

Themes:  FarmersTavernsClergyPhysicians

Firth c.21(144)

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Edition - Bod14084

Imprint Names:  Stephenson

Imprint Locations:  Gateshead

Date  between 1821 and 1850

Imprint: Stephenson, Printer, Gateshead


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V24111

Title: Disappointed lover

First Line: Come gentlemen and ladies gay

Tune: Royal Charlie

Themes:  Rejected suitor

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 176

Title: The little dun mare

First Line: On the twenty-fourth of August last

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Horse-racing

Harding B 11(900)

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Edition - Bod14102

Imprint Names:  Marshall, J.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1810 and 1831

Imprint: Marshall, Printer, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: V1924

Title: The Newcastle noodles

First Line: Be easy, good folks, for we're all safe enough

Tune: Canny Newcassel

Authors:  Morrison, James

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 25(1331)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod9965

Imprint Names:  Hoggett, T.

Imprint Locations:  Durham

Date  between 1816 and 1843

Imprint: T. Hoggett, Printer, Market Place, Durham


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2101

Title: Billy O'Rooke's the boy sir

First Line: I greased my brogues and cut my stick

Themes:  Migrant labor - Irish

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V20745

Title: Bessy of Dromore

First Line: 'Twas on a summer's morning I rov'd for recreation

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Pastoral

Harding B 11(290)

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Edition - Bod16389

Imprint Names:  Pollock, J.K.

Imprint Locations:  North Shields

Date  between 1815 and 1855

Imprint: Pollock, Printer, North Shields


Ballad - Roud Number: V26516

Title: Tynemouth in an uproar, or The enchanted castle

First Line: You talk of the wonderful wonders of yore

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 22(308)

Notes:  Slip


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Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod16496

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 520

Title: The Irish blunder or Paddy's lamentation

First Line: Dearest captain M'Granis I am goin to list

References:

ESTC: T196233

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Soldiers, Irish

Harding B 22(121)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod16878

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V32523

Title: Newcassel props

First Line: Oh wae's me wor canny town

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 25(1332)

Notes:  Slip. Printed on blue paper.


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Edition - Bod17039

Imprint Names:  Marshall, J.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1810 and 1831

Imprint: Printed for the Author, by J. Marshall, Newcastle


Ballad - Roud Number: V32276

Title: A new song called The sailors' fraud on Shields road; or, The driver taken in

First Line: Come listen a while, and I think you will smile

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 25(1705)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod17515

Imprint Names:  Pollock, J.K.

Imprint Locations:  North Shields

Date  between 1815 and 1855

Imprint: Pollock, Printer, North Shields


Ballad

Title: Easter Tuesday or, The enchantment broke

First Line: Come all my good people, I'd have you to visit

Tune: Derry down

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Themes:  Magic shows

Harding B 25(570)

Notes:  Slip


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Johnson Ballads 1970

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod17821

Imprint Names:  Marshall, J.

Imprint Locations:  Newcastle

Date  between 1810 and 1831

Imprint: Newcastle: Marshall, Printer


Ballad

Title: The banks of Tyne. A new song

First Line: As I walked out one morning, it being in the month of May

Subjects:  Newcastle (England)

Harding B 25(112)

Notes:  The illustration is damaged. Slip


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