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Short Title Choice Collection, 1805 
Title Choice Collection of Admired Songs, A 
Pages 60 
Publisher Dobbin, G., & Murphy 
Location RPB MF FH B6 03012.6 
Date 1805 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place RPB MF FH B6 03012.6 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
'Twas on the spot in ancient lore oft' named (fl)  3-4 
Summer and winter gliding past (fl)  4-5   
O, I first met the youth, who, to me came a wooing (fl) 
Wipe the mirrors, chalk the floor (fl)  5-6 
Thrice welcome, signor, to the bowers of Savoy (fl) 
Ah! mighty sir! if e'er your breast (fl) 
For worms when old Bibo proved delicate [fare] (fl)  7-8 
Friend of the wretch, who claims no other friend (fl) 
Woodlands are ringing with hilloa ho! (fl)  8-9 
Where the beech and pine embracing (fl) 
Delighted Fancy hails the hour (fl) 
Sweet myrtles and soft thornless roses (fl)  9-10 
Skies are bathed in sunny light, The (fl)  10 
I keep a snug inn by the side of the road (fl)  11 
Road of life is rough, some say, The (fl)  12 
I was born once at home when my mother was out (fl)  12-13 
My father was once a great marchant (fl)  14-15 
Albion! on thy fertile plain (fl)  15-16 
My ship's my house, my home, my land (fl)  16 
Your landsmens' wives with all their airs (fl)  16-17 
In early youth, my Fanny's charms (fl)  17 
Soft! do but listen! ev'ry word (fl)  17-18 
Ye jolly man of war's men, where e're you chance to be (fl)  18-19 
Ah, what was the charm that my bosom ensnar'd (fl)  19 
Then I'll be married (fl)  19-20 
Hero, who, to live in story, The (fl)  20 
Spring, clad in gayest greenest hue (fl)  21 
Methought as I walk'd by the side of the sea (fl)  21 
Oh take me to your arms, love, for keen the wind doth blow (fl)  22 
My father who always knew what he were at (fl)  22-23 
My bosom, like the ocean heaving (fl)  23 
Social joys, would you combine (fl)  24   
Billy Tailyer, a brisk young sailyer (fl)  24-25 
I'm so happy, As happy am I (fl)  25-26 
Why fair maid in every feature (fl)  26-27 
'Twas at the hour, when the night retreating (fl)  27 
That the world it goes round by arithmetic's rules (fl)  27-28 
Mother were dead, and sister were married (fl)  28-29 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  30 
Come listen! I sing to the lovers of fun (fl)  30-32  10 
Harry came to me last week (fl)  32 
On Ireland's ground seat of true hospitality (fl)  32-33 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  34 
Dame Nature one day in a comical mood (fl)  34-36 
Bleak blows the storm upon the breast (fl)  36-37 
I'm parish-clerk, and sexton here (fl)  37-38   
Deny, but do not taunt a maid (fl)  38-39 
Amo amas, I live by the mass (fl)  39-40 
Why what's that to you if my eyes I'm a wiping (fl)  40-41 
Oh had I in the clear, but five hundred a year (fl)  41-42 
I danc'd with Harriet at the fair (fl)  43 
My mother got married, my father got me (fl)  43-44 
Of wizards and witches why make such a rout (fl)  44-45 
When I was a younker I first was apprentic'd (fl)  45 
Young Teddy is an Irish lad (fl)  45-46 
O Inkle, tink how griev'd my heart (fl)  46-47 
Blessing unknown to ambition and pride, A (fl)  47 
When Anna look'd o'er the wide main (fl)  47-48 
When a lad comes a courting, how bashful he'll stand (fl)  48 
I, Raphael Stink, To draw the chink (fl)  48-49 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  49-50 
Tel me, tell me truly, gentle cousin John (fl)  50-51 
I was call'd knowing Joe by the boys of our town (fl)  51-52 
Come, buy my pretty violets blue (fl)  52-53 
Since the world is so old, and the times are so new (fl)  53-54 
Turban'd Turk, who scorns the world, The (fl)  54 
If you, Colin, go campaigning (fl)  54-55 
When weary Sol gaed down the west (fl)  55-56 
With tuneful pipe and merry glee (fl)  56 
There was an Irish lad, who lov'd a cloister'd Nun (fl)  56-57 
Away with those poor married fellows (fl)  57-58 
'twas on Christmas night, Father he did wed (fl)  58-59 
Since you ask me, I'll honestly tell you the truth (fl)  59 
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