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Date
[1881]
Title: Death of lord Beaconsfield
First Line: How very sad to hear such news so sad and drear
Subjects: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881
Themes: 1881
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Date
[1881]
Title: A legend of old Darbee
First Line: Once on a time, in old Darbee town
Subjects: Derby (England) , Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Themes: 1881
Titles:
Mother Shipton, or 1881
First Lines:
A respectable old lady who lived some years ago
Themes:
Zulu War, 1879
Courts and law
1881
Times
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Date
[1881]
Title: Verses written to lament the fearful death of Annie Ratcliffe, who was murdered at Preston, by her lover, John Aspinall Simpson, on August 3rd, 1881
First Line: You mothers dear, pray give attention
Subjects: Preston (England)
Themes: Murder - 19th century , Crime - 19th century , 1881
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
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Date
[188-]
Title: We've lived together
First Line: My song is concerning the great agitation
Themes: Home Rule - Ireland , Tel-el-kebir, battle of, 1882 , Majuba, battle of, 1881
Title: Time may steal the roses, darling
First Line: Time may steal the roses, darling
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Date
[1881]
Title: Sentence of John Aspinall Simpson
First Line: Good people attention and list what I say
Tune: Driven from home
Subjects: Manchester (England) , Preston (England) , Simpson, John Aspinall , Ratcliffe, Annie
Themes: Murder - 19th century , Crime - 19th century , Courts and law - 19th century , 1881
Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: Richard March & Co., St. James's Walk, London, E.C.
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. Mutilated; lacking one ballad. With advertisements
Series Identifier: March's Edition of New Songs and Ballads
Title: Look at the clock
First Line: Some people will say all work and no play will make Jack a very dull boy
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: The little birds are looking
First Line: Sweet Mabel Montmorency is the girl that I admire
Title: Oh, sweet Selina!
First Line: A poet midst his midnight oil
Title: I drove my mare to Banbury fair
First Line: Oh! I drove my mare to Banbury fair
Title: Anybody ill
First Line: I am a learned surgeon, and my name is Doctor Quack
Themes: Doctors
Title: You couldn't help it if you were to try
First Line: Some say it was wrong when peeping Tom
Title: A scientific simpleton
First Line: A scientific simpleton who struggled fame to gain
Themes: Inventions
Title: Leave it alone
First Line: When I was a boy I oft got in a row
Title: Fred, tell them to stop
First Line: No doubt you have heard of the great fancy fair
Title: The ring my mother wore
First Line: The earth has many treasures rare, in gems and golden ore
Title: Just down the lane
First Line: There's a nice little darling, a beautiful miss
Title: I'd like it all over again
First Line: Some people are always grumbling about
Title: The girl in the pinafore dress
First Line: I scarce know what I'm at, for my heart pit a pat
Title: Lord Beaconsfield, or A giant soul has passed away
First Line: A giant soul has passed away
Authors: Allan, Oswall , d'Este, John, Dr.
Subjects: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881
Title: Betsy Price
First Line: When first I met sweet Betsy Price, I thought her without guile
Title: My old clay pipe
First Line: I'm a jovial sort of man
Performers: Clifford, Charles
Title: Taking the census of 1881
First Line: About numbering the people
Authors: Hardwick, James A.
Performers: Clifford, Charles
Themes: Census
Title: Beaconsfield, or Rest in peace and honour
First Line: He sprang from the ranks of the people he loved
Authors: Horncastle, George , d'Este, John, Dr.
Subjects: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881
Title: My sweet forget-me-not
First Line: My love's a little blue-eyed girl
Title: Dot and carry one
First Line: There are many sorts of sweethearts
Title: Kiss me, and call me your darling
First Line: Kiss me and all me your darling
Title: Canadian boat song
First Line: Faintly as tolls the evening chime
Title: The never-empty cradle, or Cradle's crowded -- twins is born
First Line: Never empty cradle! though you're in my care
Themes: Family life
Title: Keep in de middle ob de road
First Line: When I was a lad my dad would say
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Children's happy voices
First Line: Oh, how sweet are children's voices
Title: Mary had a little lamb
First Line: Mary, sweet Mary, the maid of the inn
Title: Oh! what a wicked young man you are
First Line: Was ever a poor girl so pester'd as me
Title: My heart is in a flutter
First Line: My heart is in a flutter
Performers: Harcourt, George
Title: I don't love you for that
First Line: A man when in love feels just like a dove
Title: The empty cradle, baby's gone
First Line: Little empty cradle, treasur'd now with care
Title: Up in the gallery on a Saturday night
First Line: I am a boy that enjoys myself
Authors: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Performers: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Title: The young cock cackles as the old cock crows
First Line: It's a well established fact, upon which most people act
Title: All round the squares
First Line: My friends all say I'm half insane
Title: Mother Shipton, or 1881
First Line: A respectable old lady who lived some years ago
Themes: Courts and law , Times , Zulu War, 1879 , 1881
Title: What a nice place to be in
First Line: I have a beau, and you must know he takes me everywhere
Title: It's bound to be right in the morning
First Line: I've heard men say when married they could not go out at night
Title: You've been doing something naughty
First Line: Oh, when I was a little boy I was on mischief bent
Title: Oh, what a beauty
First Line: Maria loved the Squire and the Squire so they say
Themes: Countryman in town
Title: The old village school
First Line: 'Tis standing there yet, though the stern hand of time
Themes: Education , Rural society
Title: Grandmother's cat. Parody on \"Grandfather's clock\"
First Line: My grandmother's cat was too large for the shelf
Title: Flirting with the fairies
First Line: A fig say I for quietude, I am the boy for fun
Title: She's a daisy
First Line: My Mary Ann's a teacher in a great big School Board schoo
Themes: Education
Title: Nancy Lee
First Line: Of all the wives as e'er you know
Title: Madame La Sharty, or Biddy the belle of the ballet
First Line: Oh! Madame La Sharty's one name
Themes: Theaters
Title: There's a sweet little maid
First Line: There's a sweet little maid, who lives on the hill
Title: Courting in the moonlight
First Line: I have a most peculiar style for passing time away
Title: \"Sage and onions\"
First Line: I hate cant and humbug, as I hate the Bogie
Authors: Johnson, Bob
Themes: Charity , Land tenure - Ireland , Charity Organisation Society , South African War, 1880-1881
Title: Grandfather's chair [Parody on \"Grandmother's chair\"]
First Line: My grandfather he, at the age of eighty-three
Tune: Grandmother's chair
Authors: Anthony, George
Title: Ding Dong; or, The legend of the bells
First Line: Yes! that castle old by wizard is enchanted
Title: All in his Sunday clothes
First Line: Tobias, he went for a walk one day
Performers: Chirgwin, George H., 1854-1922
Themes: Prostitution
Title: The butterfly was a gentleman
First Line: The butterfly was a gentleman
Title: Under the lilac tree
First Line: Bashful maidens are like flowers
Title: Grandmother's chair
First Line: My grandmother she at the age eighty-three
Title: Oh, dem golden slippers!
First Line: Oh, my golden slippers am laid away
Authors: Bland, James A., 1854-1911
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: My Katty, kiss 'em
First Line: I've caught at last my Katty dear
Title: Oh, Joe, the boat's going over
First Line: It happen'd on one afternoon in the month of May
Themes: Excursions , Boating
Title: I'm a Don, I've got 'em on
First Line: I'm a swell the fact is known
Themes: Dandies
Title: [Ther]e's another jolly row down stairs
First Line: I'm one of those fellows who like quiet life
Themes: Domestic strife , Lodgers
Title: The girl in the tight-fitting jersey
First Line: You see that I'm quite in the fashion
Themes: Clothing
Title: Sweeter than jam
First Line: The swells may boast about their girls who ride in Rotten Row
Title: That's how you get served when you're old
First Line: One day in the street I just happen'd to meet
Title: The School Board man
First Line: \"The holy joys of wedded life\" we hear the poets sing
Themes: Education
Title: Nancy fancied a soldier
First Line: In Bermondsey not long ago there lived a little dame
Title: The man at the wheel or, Why did she leave me?
First Line: Behold me, the Captain of a steamboat
Performers: Seymour, Frank, d. 1891
Title: Grandmother's watch. The popular reply to \"Grandfather's clock\"
First Line: My Grandmother's watch was of wonderful make
Title: I haven't arrived at the end
First Line: I've been thinking of things in a general way
Authors: Anthony, George
Title: Once more, Harry!
First Line: I'm a true-hearted fellow, so gay and so free
Title: The cabin with the roses at the door
First Line: The light is fading fast and I'm thinking of the past
Themes: Farmers , Age , Migration
Title: Meggie and Jo
First Line: Two children sat on the beach
Title: Oh! ain't I having a day
First Line: I'm a happy-go-lucky, gay sort of chap
Title: I read it in the paper
First Line: My name is Corney Burke, I've got no need to work
Title: Make it as smooth as you can
First Line: As we travel through life, funny people we meet
Title: Little Robin, tell Kitty I'm coming
First Line: Little Robin, tell Kitty I'm coming
Title: Our marriage bells are ringing
First Line: Our marriage bells are ringing
Title: Kiss the little ones for me
First Line: Far from home and loving faces
Title: To my sweetheart
First Line: Oh, would I had the wealth of worlds
Authors: Anthony, George