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Short Title Songster's Museum, 1803 
Title Songsters Museum, The 
Pages 204 
Publisher Butler, S. and E. 
Location DLC, 0/MB, MH, MWA/0AoA/0WC/DLC M1628.S96 S6 
Date 1803 
Place Northampton, Massachusetts 
Data Place Rdx S05129 
Comments Musical notation or reference thereto. [Attributed to Timothy Swan] 
First Line Page Verses
Bright God of day drew westward away, The (fl)  13-14 
When William at eve meets me down at the stile (fl)  14-15 
Alone as I walked one fine summer's morning (fl)  15-18  11 
Tho' far beyond those mountains that look so distant here (fl)  19-20 
As I was a walking to take the fresh air (fl)  20-22 
When my money was all gone, I had gain'd in the wars (fl)  22-23 
Push about the brisk glass, I proclaim him an ass (fl)  23-24 
I'll sing you a song, faith I'm singing it now here (fl)  24-26 
Now listen my friends, to an old dog's new story (fl)  26-27 
Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted (fl)  27-28 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  28-29 
Let the farmer praise his grounds, & the huntsman praise his hounds (fl)  30-31 
When first I kenn'd young Sandy's face (fl)  31-32 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The (fl)  33-34  10 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  34-36 
I am a brisk young lively lass (fl)  37-38 
Blithe Sandy is a bonny boy (fl)  38-39 
Down by one shady grove, one day I chanc'd to rove (fl)  40-41 
Come all you young fellows that love to be mellow (fl)  41-43 
Wherever I'm going, and all the day long (fl)  43-44 
You know I'm your priest, and your conscience is mine (fl)  44-45 
Why heaves my troubled breast with sighs (fl)  46-48 
Adieu ye tender visions of delight (fl)  48-49 
Why, fair maid, in ev'ry feature (fl)  50-51 
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb (fl)  51-52 
Oh! Nanny wilt thou gang with me (fl)  52-54 
O'er moorlands and mountains rude barren and bare (fl)  55-57 
John Anderson my Joe, John (fl)  57-58 
My heart from my bosom would fly (fl)  59-60 
Tuneful lav'rocks cheer the grove, The (fl)  60-61 
Forever Fortune wilt thou prove (fl)  62 
'Twas in the good ship Rover (fl)  63-64 
When bidden to the wake or fair (fl)  64-65 
Say beautious cause of all my woe (fl)  65 
Why are we fond of toil and care (fl)  66 
From morn till night I take my glass (fl)  67 
Could you to battle march away (fl)  68 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine (fl)  69-70 
Cupid sent on a message one ev'ning by Venus (fl)  70-71 
Come haste to the wedding ye friends and ye neighbors (fl)  72-73 
As I one day where winding Tay (fl)  73-75 
'Twas early on a holiday (fl)  75-76 
Ye fair possess'd of ev'ry charm (fl)  77-78 
For various purpose serves the fan (fl)  78 
'Twas o'er high hills and lofty mountains (fl)  79-80 
But are you sure the news is true (fl)  80-82 
Rose tree in full bearing, A (fl)  82-83 
Sweet were those joys I tasted (fl)  83-84 
As Murphy Delancy so funny and frisky (fl)  84-85 
As thro' the grove the other day (fl)  86-87 
Too plain, dear youth, those tell-tale eyes (fl)  87-88 
Mason's daughter fair and young, A (fl)  88-89 
Ye lads of true spirit pay courtship to Claret (fl)  90-91 
Beauteous Starling late I saw, A (fl)  92-93 
Come brother bucks and I'll tip you a song (fl)  93-94 
In a chariot of light, from the regions of day (fl)  95-97 
Conven'd we're met my jovial souls (fl)  97-99 
O nightingale best poet of the grove (fl)  99-100 
I was, d' ye see, a waterman (fl)  101-104 
Since times are so hard, I'll tell you my sweet heart (fl)  104-107  14 
Tell me my lovely shepherd where (fl)  107-108 
Hail! brother Masons hail! (fl)  109-110 
Cease a while ye winds to blow (fl)  110-111 
On yonder high mountain a castle doth stand (fl)  111-112 
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd (fl)  113-114 
One morning very early, one morning in the spring (fl)  115 
Let's be jovial fill our glasses (fl)  116 
No glory I covet, no riches I want (fl)  117 
Some say women are like the seas (fl)  118-119 
Shall I, wasting in despair (fl)  119-121 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be (fl)  121-122 
From Susquehannah's utmost springs (fl)  123-125  14 
How sweet in the woodland with fleet hound and horn (fl)  126 
Sleep, thou leaden lazy God (fl)  127-129 
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  130-131 
Silver moon that shines so bright, The (fl)  131 
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  132-133 
Banish sorrow! grief is folly (fl)  133-134 
Guardian Angels now protect me (fl)  134-135 
Ye delicate lovelies with leave I maintain (fl)  136-137 
In the first book of Job, which I now mean to quote (fl)  138-144  12 
And bearing up to gain the port (fl)  139 
Why Moses and Aaron, my boys (fl)  140 
Beneath the honey suckle the daisy and the violet (fl)  140-141 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids (fl)  141 
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  142 
Cease rude Boreas blust'ring railer (fl)  142-143 
O that I had not then tak'n so sound a nap (fl)  143-144 
Ye sons of France awake to glory (fl)  145-146 
No more I'll court the town-bred fair (fl)  147-148 
What is beauty, but a flow'r (fl)  149-150 
As walking forth to view the plain (fl)  150-151 
Old Homer!---but what have we with him to do (fl)  152-153 
'Tis said we vent'rous die-hards, when we leave shore (fl)  154-156 
On Richmond hill there lives a lass (fl)  157-158 
Sages of old, and the learn'd of the day, The (fl)  158-159 
When up the shrouds the sailor goes (fl)  160-161 
When first this humble roof I knew (fl)  162-163 
I Sing the British seaman's praise [sic] (fl)  164-166 
When the fancy-stirring bowl (fl)  166-167 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (fl)  168-169 
Now the happy knot is ty'd (fl)  170-171 
Night her silent sable wore, The (fl)  172-173 
One kind kiss before we part (fl)  174 
Ye sluggards, who murder your lifetime in sleep (fl)  175-176 
Welcome, welcome, brother debtor (fl)  177-178 
When up to London first I came (fl)  179-180 
Why does the sun dart forth his cheerful rays (fl)  181-184   
Free from the bustle care and strife (fl)  185-186 
Bright Sol is returned, the winter is o'er (fl)  187-188 
In good King Charles's golden days (fl)  189-191 
Lovely goddess, sprightly May (fl)  191-193 
Young Roger the ploughman, who wanted a mate (fl)  193-194 
Fig for all your whining fluff, A (fl)  195 
Alas, my heart! Alas, my heart! (fl)  196-197 
What is't to us who guides the state? (fl)  197-198 
World, my dear Myra, is full of deceit, The (fl)  199-200 
British lion is my sign, The (fl)  201-202 
Lock'd in my chest I've fifty pound (fl)  203 
O see that form that faintly gleams (fl)  204 
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