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Short Title Town & Country, 1805 
Title Town & Country Song-Book, The 
Pages 105 
Publisher Warner & Hanna 
Location MH/25254.12.120.5 
Date 1805 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place MH 25254.12.120.5 
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First Line Page Verses
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  5-6 
Be hush'd the loud breeze and soft roll the rough billow (fl)  6-7 
Blow high blow low, let tempests tear (fl) 
Come, never seem to mind it (fl)  8-9 
'Twas within a mile of Edinburgh town (fl)  9-10 
Tho' neither in silks nor in sattins I'm seen (fl)  10 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (fl)  11-12 
Passing bell was heard to toll, The (fl)  12-13 
Moment Aurora peep'd into my room, The (fl)  14-15 
Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted (fl)  15 
Oh! think on my fate! once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  16 
Poor Richard lov'd his Emma well (fl)  16-17 
Sailor's life's a life of woe, A (fl)  17-18 
Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise (fl)  18-20 
For England, when, with fav'ring gale (fl)  20 
Dear Nancy I've sailed the world all around (fl)  21-22 
O you, whose lives on land are pass'd (fl)  21-22 
Bright Phoebus has mounted the chariot of day (fl)  22-23 
Sun sets at night, and the stars shun the day, The (fl)  23 
How blest the life a sailor leads (fl)  23-24 
Rose-tree full in bearing, A (fl)  24-25 
In the first book of Job, which Inow mean to quote (fl)  25-28  14 
And bearing up to gain the port (fl)  26 
Why Mosy, why Aaron, my boys (fl)  26 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maid (fl)  27   
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  27 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer (fl)  28 
Oh! dear what can the matter be (fl)  28   
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  29-30 
Ye sportsmen draw near, and ye sportswomen too (fl)  30 
See the course throng'd with gazers, the sports are begun (fl)  31-32 
Breeze was fresh, the ship in stays, The (fl)  32-33 
Sweet is the ship that's under sail (fl)  33-34 
Of all the varous states of life (fl)  34-35 
Day is departed and round from the cloud, The (fl)  35-36 
Beggar I am, and of low degree, A (fl)  36-37 
Ere around the huge oak that o'ershadows yon mill (fl)  37 
Tho' far beyond the mountains that look so distant here (fl)  37-38 
Give me but a wife, I expect not to find (fl)  38-39 
Bird, that hears her nestlings cry, The (fl)  39-40 
Ye nymphs, who to the throne of love (fl)  40-41 
If e'er I shall learn the sweet lesson of love (fl)  41 
When I was a young one, what girl was like me (fl)  41-42 
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen (fl)  42-43 
Wine, wine we allow the brisk fountain of mirth (fl)  43-44 
All you who would wish to succeed with a lass (fl)  44 
Sun from the east tips the mountains with gold, The (fl)  45 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  46-47 
[Hark! the din of distant war] (fl)  47   
[As pensive one night in my garret I sat] (fl)  48   
[On azure-wove couches as the Gods lay reclin'd] (fl)  49-50   
[Brother soldiers, why cast down?] (fl)  50-51   
Wide o'er the tremulous sea (fl)  51-52 
Why droops my Nan, and why those tears? (fl)  52 
Ariadne one morning to Theseus was turning (fl)  53-54 
Bacchus one day gaily striding (fl)  54-55 
Two gods of great honor, Bacchus and Apollo (fl)  55-56 
Ye lads of true spirit, pay courtship to claret (fl)  56-57  10 
Silver moon that shines so bright, The (fl)  58 
When you meet a tender creature (fl)  58-59 
Jolly fat friar lov'd liquor good store, A (fl)  59-60 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine (fl)  60 
I have rambled I own it, whole years up and down (fl)  61 
Beauties, have you seen a toy (fl)  61-62 
As I stray'd o'er a common on Cork's rugged border (fl)  62-64 
Ye gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease (fl)  65 
Whistling ploughman hails the blushing dawn, The (fl)  65-66 
In the chariot of light, from the regions of day (fl)  66-67 
Come sit brother bucks and I'll tip you a song (fl)  68-69 
'Twas in the pleasant month of May (fl)  69-70 
To Columbia, who, gladly reclin'd at her ease (fl)  70-71 
Behold the man that is unlucky (fl)  71-72 
Dear image of the maid that I love (fl)  72-73 
As Jemie Gay gang'd blyth his way (fl)  73-74 
I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling (fl)  74 
Busy, curious fly (fl)  74-75 
Come live with me and be my love (fl)  75-76 
Who better knows the world than I? (fl)  76-77 
From place to place I travers'd along (fl)  77 
There's something in women their lovers engage (fl)  78 
I've travell'd afar from my native land (fl)  78-79 
Adieu! adieu! my only life (fl)  79-80 
In the dead of the night, when, with labor opprest (fl)  80-81 
When first the sun o'er ocean glow'd (fl)  81-82 
Lord, what care I for man or dad? [sic] (fl)  82-83 
Why hangs that cloud upon the brow? (fl)  83-84 
Ah! tell me, ye swains, have ye seen my Pastora (fl)  84-85 
Extinguish the candle, give Phoebus fair play (fl)  85-86  10 
Leander on the bay (fl)  86-88 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer! (fl)  88-90 
I've kiss'd and I've pratted with fifty fair maidens (fl)  90-91 
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  91-92 
To ease his heart and own his flame (fl)  92 
When Orpheus went down to the regions below (fl)  93 
My mother oft talk'd of the beaus of the town (fl)  93-94 
Oh! what had I a-do for to marry! (fl)  94-95 
Rail no more ye learned asses (fl)  95-96 
I sigh for a maid, and a pretty sweet maid (fl)  96-97 
My friends all declare my time is misspent [sic] (fl)  97 
At the very best of houses, where the best of people dine (fl)  97-99 
Adieu ye groves, adieu ye plains! (fl)  99-100 
You may do as you please, but I'll fling away care (fl)  100-101 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The (fl)  101-102  10 
Rise, Cynthia, rise (fl)  103 
Father of Nancy a forester was, The (fl)  103-104 
Wand'ring youth forgive, A (fl)  104 
'Tis love holds the bright torch of nature (fl)  104 
Rose when dews of night are shed, The (fl)  105 
Softly, ye swains, more softly tread (fl)  105 
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