Bibliography - Harp of Erin, 1812

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Short Title Harp of Erin, 1812 
Title Harp of Erin, The 
Pages 246 
Publisher Warner & Hanna 
Location DLC, RPB/AoA 
Date 1812 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place AoA S26344 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
Love and whisky both rejoice an honest fellow (fl)  3-4 
Attend to me, landsmen & sailors, and others (fl)  4-5 
When I was at home, I was merry and frisky (fl)  5-6 
Kathelin sat all alone (fl)  6-7 
Oh, did you not hear of Kate Kearney? (fl)  7-8 
Oh! yes, I have seen this Kate Kearney (fl) 
In sweet Tipperary, the pride of the throng (fl)  9-11 
Oh! many a mountain I wearily measure (fl)  11-12 
Oh! when I breath'd a last adieu (fl)  13 
Adieu my lov'd harp! for no more shall the vale (fl)  14 
Sure won't you hear what roaring cheer (fl)  14-16 
You know I'm your priest, and your conscience is mine (fl)  16-17 
Without the help of a gamut, note, demi-semiquaver, crochet, or minim (fl)  17-19 
Ye winds and ye waves, bear my sorrow away (fl)  20 
Shepherds, I have lost my love (fl)  21 
'Twas Phelim of Doldrum the sense to reveal him (fl)  21-23 
Would you travel the wide world over (fl)  23-24 
Let Sawney loo the lasses O (fl)  25-27  10 
In a nate little cabin not far from Kilkenny (fl)  28-29 
Here's Phelim O'Connaught from Dublin com'd over (fl)  29-30 
Oh had I in the clear, but five hundred a year (fl)  30-32 
O what a country for people to marry in (fl)  32-33 
Remember as once we sat under an oak (fl)  34 
Potatoes now blossom and gladness prevails (fl)  35-36 
When a lad comes a courting how bashful he'll stand (fl)  36 
When war was heard, and Erin's call (fl)  37 
Go, Edmund, join the martial throng (fl)  37-38 
Ope the casement, lady bright (fl)  38-39 
Moon throws her shadowy light on the hill, The (fl)  39-40 
There with fun we the stocking throw (fl)  40-41 
Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt oh! (fl)  41 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  42-44 
Adown a dark alley I courted a maid (fl)  44-45 
Arrah come. sons of Erin, I'll give you a song (fl)  45-47 
Tis a mighty fine thing, to be sure it is now (fl)  47-48 
Arrah, Neddy, my darling! and where are you jogging? (fl)  48-49   
I danc'd on the green, when scarcely fifteen (fl)  49-50 
And did you ne'er hear of an Irish hay-maker (fl)  50-52 
Can't an Irishman practice such guile (fl)  52-53 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  53-54 
Arrah, honies, my dear (fl)  54-56 
When first I come to London town, I was both spruce and fine, sir (fl)  57-59 
Och, the top of the morning to Katty my jewel (fl)  59-61 
When first I was married to Katty O'Connor (fl)  62-63 
There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  63-64 
From the county of Cork, you see I lately came (fl)  64-66 
My father was once a great Marchant (fl)  66-68 
Ned Grogan, dear joy, was the son of his mother (fl)  69-70 
Oh! long life to the girls who revive without pother (fl)  71-72 
Paddy Shannon, high mounted on his trotting little poney (fl)  72-73 
As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping (fl)  73-74 
If you travel the wide world over (fl)  74-75 
Priest of the parish must lead a rare happy life, The (fl)  76 
I'm a Paddy you see by the sight of my trogue (fl)  77-78 
You've heard of one Gen'ral Macbeth (fl)  78-81 
O! have you not heard of a story (fl)  81-84 
Irishman I am, bekase, An (fl)  84-85 
Hero's life I sing, A (fl)  85-88 
By the big hill of Howth (fl)  88-89 
My father he left me a snug little cot (fl)  89-90 
O sing not to me of your fine dressing swains (fl)  90-91 
Oh, here's Barney Maclean keeps the sign of the Pot (fl)  91-92 
Before I came from Connaught, O'Dominic they christen'd me (fl)  92-93 
Oh! Love is the soul of a nate Irishman (fl)  93-95 
If my own botheration don't alter my plan (fl)  95-97 
There was an Irish lad (fl)  97-98 
Mulgoney's my name, I'm a comical boy (fl)  99-100 
As Dermot toil'd one summer's day (fl)  100-101 
It's my country you'd know, I'm an Irishman born (fl)  101-104 
I'm a comical fellow, I tell you no lie (fl)  104-105 
Dear Erin! how sweetly thy green bosom rises (fl)  106 
Och, I sing of a wedding, and that at Dunleary (fl)  107-108 
Of the ancients it's speaking, my soul, you'd be after (fl)  108-110 
Ye good fellows all (fl)  110-113 
O what a dainty fine thing is the girl I love (fl)  113-114 
Oh, whack! Cupid's a mannikin (fl)  114-115 
At sixteen years old you could get little good of me (fl)  116-117 
When first from Kilkenny, as fresh as a daisy (fl)  117-118 
When I was a chicken, as high as a hen (fl)  118-120 
Tho' Leixlip is proud of its close shady bowers (fl)  120-121 
'Twas bus'ness requir'd I'd from Dublin be straying (fl)  121-123 
I listed with old Blinking Barney (fl)  123-124 
At the dead of the night, when by whiskey inspir'd (fl)  124 
I'm Larry O'Lash'em, was born at Killarney (fl)  125-126 
My grandmother Judy had oft made me wonder (fl)  126-128 
I sing of a war set on foot for a toy (fl)  128-129 
Assist me ye lads who have hearts void of guile (fl)  130-131 
Through Dublin as once I was trudging away (fl)  131-133  12 
When I took my departure from Dublin's sweet town (fl)  134-136 
Oh! a petticoat, honey's an Irishman's joy (fl)  136-137 
Irish lad's a jolly boy, An (fl)  138-139 
Sure never a lad lov'd like Paddy O'Blarney (fl)  139-140 
Oh! to hand, and reef, and steer, is the thing sailors prize (fl)  140-142 
On Irelands ground, seat of true hospitality (fl)  142-144 
There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle (fl)  144-145 
Sup of good whisky will make you glad, A (fl)  145-147 
Descend, ye chaste Nine, to an Irish Bard (fl)  147-150 
It was Murphy Delany, so funny and frisky (fl)  151-152 
O Love! what the deuce do you want in my bosom? (fl)  152-154 
Of all trades, my dear cratur a gard'ner's the best (fl)  154-155 
Arrah, what a big nose had the bold captain Noraghon (fl)  155-156 
Night before Larry was stretch'd, The (fl)  157-159 
I'm an Irishman born, and as pretty a youth (fl)  159-160 
Face of Brave Captain Megan, The (fl)  160-161 
In Dublin city liv'd a youth (fl)  161-162 
Turban'd Turk, who scorns the world, The (fl)  162-163 
Between fear and courage, Lord! What can be done? (fl)  163-165 
Oh! What a great flutter is here in my heart (fl)  165-166 
Search all the world over, thro' all times and ages (fl)  166-167 
Come listen awhile, and I'll sing you a ditty (fl)  168-170 
By Chreesht and Shaint Patrick, going home last night (fl)  170-171 
There was Cormac O'Con (fl)  171-172 
Since Epilogue speaking to me is quite new (fl)  172-174 
I was once born at home when my mother was out (fl)  175-176 
We're assembl'd here together (fl)  177-181 
'Twas Pat of Londonderry (fl)  181-182 
Come bustle, neighbor Prig (fl)  183-185 
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd (fl)  185-187 
As I went down by yon blind quad (fl)  187-188 
Each pretty young miss, with a long heavy purse (fl)  188-189 
You never did hear of an Irishman's fear (fl)  189-190 
When first I met young Teddy's eyes (fl)  190 
Won't you hail the leap year, by that am'rous dog Janus (fl)  191-193 
Let other men sing of their goddesses bright (fl)  193-194 
Sleep on, sleep on, my Kathleen dear (fl)  194 
On the Lake of Killarney I first saw the lad (fl)  195 
Your laughter I'll try to provoke (fl)  195-197 
Mr. Leonard O'Leary's my christian surname (fl)  197-198 
O'er yon tomb in the valley why waves the green willow? (fl)  198 
Patrick O'Row is my name (fl)  199-201 
As I stray'd o'er the common on Cork's rugged border (fl)  201-204 
Let patriot pride our patriot triumph wake (fl)  204-207 
Columbia's greatest glory (fl)  207-208 
Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear (fl)  208-209 
Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise (fl)  209-211 
Bound 'Prentice to a waterman, I learn'd a bit to row (fl)  211-212 
Thrice welcome, thrice welcome, ye sons of St. Patrick (fl)  213-214 
Ye freemen of Columbia (fl)  213-215 
How blest the life a sailor leads (fl)  216-217 
How blest the life a soldier leads (fl)  217-218 
When first the sun o'er ocean glow'd (fl)  219-220 
On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh (fl)  220-221 
At length war's sanguine scenes are o'er (fl)  221-223 
Why tarries my love, ah why did he rove (fl)  223-224 
In a chariot of light from the regions of day (fl)  224-225 
When Columbia's brave sons call'd my hero to lead 'em (fl)  225-225  10 
Come, take the harp....'tis vain to muse (fl)  228-229 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  229-230 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  230-231 
Thimble's scolding wife lay dead (fl)  231-232 
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  232-233 
To a woodman's hut there came one day (fl)  233-234 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  234-235 
On the banks of the Rhine at the sun setting hour (fl)  235 
Ye banks and braes, and streams around (fl)  236-237 
Landlady of France she loved an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  237-238 
Old England! 'tis time you were brought to your senses (fl)  238-239 
Where weeps the Willow o'er the stream (fl)  240-241 
Where spirits dwell and shad'wy forms (fl)  241-242 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  243-244 
When liberty's standard Columbia rais'd high (fl)  244-245 
Hail liberty, supreme delight (fl)  246 
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