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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7211

Titles:
A new song on the pulling down the chapels in America by the infidel New Lights
Pulling down of the chapel by the New Lights in America
A new song on the pulling down the chapels in America by the infidel new lights

First Lines:
All you that live in Ireland, I hope you will draw near
All you that live in Ireland I hope you will draw ea [sic]
All you that live in Ireland I hope you will draw ear [sic]

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Religious controversy - United States
Religious controversy - U.S.A.
Irish - U.S.A.

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7238

Titles:
Timothy Black

First Lines:
Timothy Black was a man of good sense

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Death
Undertakers

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V1522

Titles:
Who's your butcher? Or What's the price of meat!
Who's your butcher? Or, What's the price of meat?
The English butcher's lament

First Lines:
Oh! crickey, what a piece of work
The butchers of England are growing quite cranky
Oh! cricky, what a piece of work

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Prices
Butchers
Economy and trade - 19th century
Economy and trade

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V9548

Titles:
Gold in California

First Lines:
Of course you've heard the news elate

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Golddigging in California
African Americans
Horse-racing

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V7227

Titles:
Black eyed Susiannah
Black ey'd Susiannah
Black-eyed Susiannah
Black-eyed Susiannah!

First Lines:
I've been to the east I've been to the west
I've been to de east, I've been to de west
I've been to the East, I've been to the West
I've been to the east, I've been to the west

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Blackface minstrelsy

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 2681

Titles:
Phoebe Morel, the slave
Slave or Phoebe Morel's dream
The slave's dream
Phoebe Morel, or The slave
Phoebe Morel's dream
Phoebe Morel or The slave's dream
Phoebe Morel, or, The slave
I had a dream
Phoebe Morel the slave
The slave
Phoebe Morel

First Lines:
I had a dream, a happy dream
I had a dream a happy dream

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Slavery

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 13887

Titles:
To the West
To the West! to the West!
To the West! to the West
To the West!

First Lines:
To the west, to the west, to the land of th[e] free
To the west! to the west! to the land of the free
To the West, to the West, to the land of the free
To the west! to the West! to the land of the free
To the West! to the West! to the land of the free
To the west, to the west, to the land of the free

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
Emigration

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 521

Titles:
Monroe's tragedy
Donald Munro
Donald Munro, a tragedy
Donald Monro
Donald Munro's tragedy

First Lines:
When the sons of North Britain were used to range
When the sons of North Briton was used to range
When the sons of North Britain was [sic] used to range
When the sons of North Britain did used for to range

Subjects:
United States

Themes:
American Revolution, 1775-1783
Murder
Emigration - Scots
Emigration

Edition - Bod1276

Imprint Names:  s.n.

Imprint Locations:  s.l.

Series Identifier: 3


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V8070

Title: Kissing at the window

First Line: [I] will sing of a lass and her name it was Nell

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3800

Title: Where are you going on Sunday?

First Line: I am going to tell a story

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V15287

Title: Who shall be fairest

First Line: Who shall be fairest? -- who shall be rarest?

4th Ballad - Roud Number: 3016

Title: A new song called The sporting youth

First Line: I'm a stranger in this country, from America I came

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration

2806 b.11(278)

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Edition - Bod1410

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A. and Co.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1845 and 1859

Imprint: Ryle & Co., Printers, 2 & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials

Notes:  The same setting of type as Harding B 11(38) but with a different imprint and a different first ballad.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V7227

Title: Black ey'd Susiannah

First Line: I've been to the east I've been to the west

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Blackface minstrelsy

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V761

Title: I'm quite a ladieg' [sic] man

First Line: I'm quite a ladies' man, in fact, the belles they all declare

Themes:  Dandies

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V3066

Title: The wild white rose

First Line: All in the garden of beauty there grows

Harding B 11(308)

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Edition - Bod5411

Imprint Names:  Hodges, E.M.A.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1855 and 1861

Imprint: E. Hodges, Printer, wholesale toy and marble warehouse, 26, Grafton street, Soho, London


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 551

Title: A new song called William and Nancy or The two hearts

First Line: It's early, early by the break of day

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13887

Title: To the West!

First Line: To the west, to the west, to the land of the free

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration

Firth b.25(433)

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Edition - Bod6939

Imprint Names:  Blair, P.

Imprint Locations:  Morpeth

Date  between 1819 and 1860

Imprint: Morpeth: Printed by P. Blair, Newgate street


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13887

Title: To the West

First Line: To the West, to the West, to the land of the free

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 12890

Title: Poor Rosa May

First Line: Come darkies listen unto me

Themes:  Blackface minstrelsy

Firth b.25(5)

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Harding B 11(3865)

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Edition - Bod11672

Imprint Names:  Hodges, E.M.A.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1846 and 1854

Imprint: E. Hodges, Printer, (fom [sic] I. Pitt's) Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street, Seven-dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V16417

Title: Row brothers row

First Line: Faintly as tolls the evening chime

Authors:  Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V9548

Title: Gold in California

First Line: Of course you've heard the news elate

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Horse-racingGolddigging in CaliforniaAfrican Americans

Harding B 11(1361)

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Edition - Bod12423

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V1242

Title: Mary Ann; or, the Roving gardener

First Line: My name is William Simmonds, I am a gard'ner by my trade

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13449

Title: Home, sweet home

First Line: 'Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam

Authors:  Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 7596

Title: The whole hog or none

First Line: I'm all the way from Yankee land

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  American Civil War, 1861-1865Entertainments

Harding B 11(2341)

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Edition - Bod7287

Imprint Names:  Skelton, T.

Imprint Locations:  York

Imprint: Printed by T. Skelton, 64, Low Petergate, York


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 3109

Title: The bloom of Erin

First Line: You lovers of high and low station

Themes:  Religious controversy - Ireland

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13887

Title: To the West

First Line: To the West, to the West, to the land of the free

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration

Firth b.26(413)

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Firth b.34(32)

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Edition - Bod14241

Imprint Names:  Harkness, J.

Imprint Locations:  Preston

Date  [1877]

Series Identifier: 1131


Ballad - Roud Number: V1522

Title: The English butcher's lament

First Line: The butchers of England are growing quite cranky

Tune: Oh! dear, what can the matter be?

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Economy and trade - 19th centuryButchers

Harding B 12(235)

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Edition - Bod14843

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials

Notes:  Harding B 11(1173) is another impression Firth c.14(71) is another impression


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 23928

Title: The fate of faithful Nancy and William of the waggon train

First Line: Attend awhile, and do not smile young men and maids around

Tune: Bushes and briers

Themes:  War

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1429

Title: William and Phillis

First Line: Said William to young Phillis, \"how came you, here so soon?\"

Tune: William and Harriet

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  SailorsWomen sailors

Harding B 11(1174)

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Edition - Bod15818

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials

Notes:  Harding B 11(1174) is another impression Firth c.14(71) is another impression


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 23928

Title: The fate of faithful Nancy and William of the waggon train

First Line: Attend awhile, and do not smile young men and maids around

Tune: Bushes and briers

Themes:  War

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1429

Title: William and Phillis

First Line: Said William to young Phillis, \"how came you, here so soon?\"

Tune: William and Harriet

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  SailorsWomen sailors

Harding B 11(1173)

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Edition - Bod17816

Imprint Names:  Batchelar, T.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1817 and 1828

Imprint: Printed and sold by T. Batchelar, 115, Long Alley, Moorfields, London


Ballad - Roud Number: 308

Title: The Irish girl

First Line: Abroad as I was walking down by a river side

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Unrequited loveEmigration - Irish

Harding B 25(916)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod17985

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Notes:  Appears also, but with different illustrations, in 2806 b.9(273) and Harding B 19(82)


Ballad - Roud Number: V7211

Title: A new song on the pulling down the chapels in America by the infidel New Lights

First Line: All you that live in Ireland I hope you will draw ear [sic]

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Irish - U.S.A.Religious controversy - United States

2806 c.15(6)

Notes:  Slip.


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Harding B 26(545)

Notes:  Slip.


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Edition - Bod20611

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Artists: 

Notes:  Part of a sheet of two ballads; see 2806 b.9(248). The illustration is signed: W. Kelly


Ballad - Roud Number: V4215

Title: The glorious victory of seven Irishmen, over the kidnappers of New-York

First Line: All you that love the shamrock green attend both young and old

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

2806 b.10(178)

Notes:  Slip. Slip.


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Edition - Bod20721

Imprint Names:  The Poet's box

Imprint Locations:  Glasgow

Date  between 1849 and 1880

Imprint: ... the Poet's Box ...


Ballad - Roud Number: V20349

Title: Pat M'Carty

First Line: I've just landed from America

Tune: Billy o'Rook

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

2806 b.10(63)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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Edition - Bod21279

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 521

Title: Donald Munro, a tragedy

First Line: When the sons of North Britain were used to range

Subjects:  United States

Themes:  Emigration - ScotsAmerican Revolution, 1775-1783

2806 c.11(77)

Notes:  Slip


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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V8610

Titles:
Escape from slavery by Henry Box Brown

First Lines:
Here you see a man by the name of Henry Brown

Subjects:
United States
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

Themes:
Slavery - U.S.A.
Railways

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 3016

Titles:
The sporting youth
A new song called The sporting youth
Sporting youth

First Lines:
I'm a stranger in this country, from America I came
I'm a stranger in this country from Ireland I came

Subjects:
United States
Ireland

Themes:
Emigration
Emigration - Irish

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