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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V6868

Titles:
The gambler's wife!
The gambler's wife

First Lines:
Dark is the night! how dark! no light! no fire!
Dark is the night! how dark! no light! -- no fire!
Dark is the night, how dark, no light, no fire

Themes:
Gambling

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 884

Titles:
Tom Brown

First Lines:
The deuce take the cards, for they give me the gripes

Themes:
Gambling

Edition - Bod11621

Imprint Names:  Such, H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1863 and 1885

Imprint: London: H.P. Such, Machine Printer and Publisher, 177, Union- street, Borough

Series Identifier: 692


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6868

Title: The gambler's wife!

First Line: Dark is the night! how dark! no light! -- no fire!

Notes:  Verse and prose

Themes:  Gambling

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5200

Title: The star-spangl'd banner

First Line: Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

Authors:  Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 1978

Title: The rose of Tralee

First Line: The pale moon was rising above the green mountain

Harding B 11(1290)

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Edition - Bod12615

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V29659

Title: Palmer's farewell to the turf

First Line: Farewell ye sporting young men

Themes:  Gambling

Harding B 11(2938)

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Edition - Bod9499

Imprint Names:  Mitchelson, W.I.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: Printed by W.I. Mitchelson, 15, Brook Hill, Clerkenwell Green


1st Ballad

Title: They told her to forget me

First Line: They told her to forget me

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V8103

Title: The lary man

First Line: Of ups and downs I've felt the shock

Themes:  Gambling

Harding B 11(2065)

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Edition - Bod22939

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Series Identifier: 149


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6868

Title: The gambler's wife

First Line: Dark is the night! how dark! no light! no fire!

Themes:  Gambling

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V7742

Title: Merry little grey fat man

First Line: There's a little man

2806 d.31(29)

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Firth b.27(494)

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Harding B 11(1291)

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Johnson Ballads 3339

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Edition - Bod1232

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  Firth c.26(273) is another issue.

Series Identifier: 736


1st Ballad

Title: Esmeralda

First Line: Where is the little gipsy's home?

Authors:  Halliday, Andrew, 1830-1877

Performers:  Rudersdorff, Hermine, 1822-1882

Themes:  Gipsies

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V29736

Title: Do everyone as you can!

First Line: John Henry Sharp, is my name

Themes:  Gambling

Firth c.26(115)

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Edition - Bod6475

Imprint Names:  Collard, W.

Imprint Locations:  Bristol

Date  c.1820

Imprint: Printed and sold by W. Collard, Bridewell-lane, Bristol, and Hotwell-road


Ballad - Roud Number: V20967

Title: Young Bibo

First Line: For worms when Old Bibo prov'd delicate fare

Themes:  InheritanceGambling

Firth b.25(121)

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Harding B 25(2131)

Notes:  Harding B 25(2131) is torn at top.


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Edition - Bod10772

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester

Notes:  Firth c.26(115) is another issue.

Series Identifier: 763


1st Ballad

Title: Esmerelda

First Line: Where is the little gipsy's home?

Authors:  Halliday, Andrew, 1830-1877

Performers:  Rudersdorff, Hermine, 1822-1882

Themes:  Gipsies

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V29736

Title: Do everyone as you can!

First Line: John Henry Sharp, is my name

Themes:  Gambling

Firth c.26(273)

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Edition - Bod17205

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Printed at Pitts Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 6 Great St. Andrew street, 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V3184

Title: The swaggering man

First Line: I am a blade I have got a trade

Themes:  GamblingTheft

Harding B 25(1856)

Notes:  Slip


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Johnson Ballads 1013

Notes:  Slip


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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3184

Titles:
The swaggering man

First Lines:
I am a blade I have got a trade
I am a blade that hath no trade

Themes:
Gambling
Thieves
Theft

Edition - Bod1064

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

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


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 884

Title: Tom Brown

First Line: The deuce take the cards, for they give me the gripes

Themes:  Gambling

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 9446

Title: She lives in the valley below

First Line: The broom bloom'd so fresh and so fair

Themes:  Rural society

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V17321

Title: Lullaby

First Line: Peaceful slumb'ring on the ocean

Themes:  Sailors

Firth b.25(96)

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Edition - Bod7619

Imprint Names:  Disley, H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1860 and 1883

Imprint: H. Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles, London


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6868

Title: The gambler's wife

First Line: Dark is the night, how dark, no light, no fire

Themes:  Gambling

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 519

Title: Van Diemans Land

First Line: Come ull [sic] you gallant poachers, that ramble free of care

Themes:  Transported convict

Firth b.34(119)

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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V6318

Titles:
The new song of Tom and Jerry

First Lines:
The marriage act in doggrel verse we've sung till all is blue

Subjects:
Liverpool (England)

Themes:
Gambling
Courts and law
Prisons

Edition - Bod1486

Imprint Names:  Rosson, J.

Imprint Locations:  Middlewich

Imprint: [J. Rosson, Printer, Middlewich]


Ballad - Roud Number: V6318

Title: The new song of Tom and Jerry

First Line: The marriage act in doggrel verse we've sung till all is blue

Subjects:  Liverpool (England)

Themes:  GamblingCourts and lawPrisons

2806 c.17(433)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(310)


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Edition - Bod1399

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Wholesale Tey [sic] and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V30086

Title: A new song, for two voices, St. James's at Brixton

First Line: Though at St. James's merry days have passed by

Themes:  GamblingPrisonsTreadmillsBrixton Prison (London, England)

Firth b.26(140)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod11836

Imprint Names:  Stephenson, W.

Imprint Locations:  Gateshead

Date  between 1821 and 1838

Imprint: W. Stephenson, Printer, Bridge End, Gateshead


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1095

Title: Highland Mary

First Line: Ye banks and braes, and streams around

Authors:  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

Themes:  Death

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5709

Title: Jovial bachelor

First Line: My friends I would have you take my advice

Themes:  BachelorsProstitutionGamblingDomestic economy

Harding B 11(1543)

Notes:  Printed on tinted paper Printed on tinted paper


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Edition - Bod12581

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: J. Pitts, Printer Wholesale Toy & Marble Warehouse, 6, Great st. Andrew-street, 7 dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V29823

Title: Corinthian's diary

First Line: Sunday got floor'd in groggy pligh[t]

Themes:  DrinkingGamblingDandiesDiaries

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V710

Title: Dashing Jerry

First Line: What d'ye think of London town

Themes:  Countryman in London

Harding B 11(694)

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Johnson Ballads 772

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Johnson Ballads 773

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Johnson Ballads 774

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Johnson Ballads 775

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Johnson Ballads 776

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Edition - Bod15450

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Wholesale Tey [sic] and Marble Warehouse; 6, Great St, Andrew Street, 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V30086

Title: A new song, for two voices St. James's at Brixton

First Line: Though at St. James's merry days have passed by

Tune: Faint and wearily

Themes:  GamblingPrisonsTreadmillsBrixton Prison (London, England)

Harding B 17(214b)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod8661

Imprint Names:  Walker, G., jun.

Imprint Locations:  Durham

Date  between 1834 and 1886

Imprint: George Walker, Jun., Printer, Durham

Series Identifier: 167


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 993

Title: Constant lovers

First Line: A sailor courted a farmer's daughter

Themes:  SailorsCourtship - difference in social status

2nd Ballad

Title: Jack Tar, the sailor

First Line: Come all Jack Tars that's far and near, walk up and spend your money

Themes:  SeductionGambling

Firth c.13(259)

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