Bibliography - Comic Songs, 1814

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Short Title Comic Songs, 1814 
Title Comic Songs. as sung at the theatres and principal concerts 
Pages 146 
Publisher Grotjan, Peter A. 
Location MWA/AoA 
Date 1814 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place AoA S31203 
Comments  
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Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  3-4 
Youth took a wife, A (fl)  4-5 
Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  3-4 
Youth took a wife, A (fl)  4-5 
Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl, A (fl)  5-6 
Once tir'd of life, I took a wife (fl) 
Once on a time a pert young ape (fl)  7-8 
I'll to Court among all the nobility (fl)  8-9 
Paddy Shannon, high mounted on his trotting little poney (fl)  10 
Old Flam was a lawyer so grim (fl)  11 
Landlady of France she loved an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  11-12 
When first I was married to Kitty O'Conner (fl)  12-13 
Mistress Runnington wore a wig (fl)  13-14 
Thimble's scolding wife lay dead (fl)  15 
Last week I took a wife (fl)  16 
There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  16-17 
When first a little Smouchy, no higher than as that (fl)  18 
Over port, pipe or snuff-box, there's always some wight (fl)  19-20 
You've heard of a frog in an opera hat (fl)  20-21 
Spruce Mr. Clark, The (fl)  21-22 
When I was a little boy (fl)  22-23 
Come tell me, says Rosa, as kissing and kiss'd (fl)  24-25 
Playhouse of Liquor, 'tis found, A (fl)  25-26 
How I love to laugh! (fl)  26-27 
Old Abou Casem of Bagdad city (fl)  27-28 
Fashion's all fiddle-de-dee (fl)  29-30 
Ye lads of true spirit, pay courtship to claret (fl)  30-31 
In England they tell us (fl)  32-33 
My feyther put me to the school (fl)  33-34 
Mrs. Waddle was a widow, and she made no little gain (fl)  34-36 
When I came on the world without notice or name (fl)  36 
Tailor I once was, as blithe as e'er need be, A (fl)  37 
Hero's life I sing, A (fl)  37-40 
Father and I went down to camp (fl)  40-41  10 
Woman is like to---but stay--- (fl)  41-42   
Man is like to---but stay (fl)  43 
Ye virgins attend (fl)  44-45 
To a woodman's hut there came one day (fl)  45-46 
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen (fl)  46-47 
Push about the bowl, Boys (fl)  47-48 
Sure won't you hear what roaring cheer (fl)  48-51 
Well, here I am, and what of that? (fl)  52 
In the first book of Job, that I now mean to quote (fl)  53-57  12 
Bearing up to gain the port, And (fl)  54 
Why, Moses, why Aaron, my boys (fl)  54-55 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids (fl)  55 
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  55-56 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer (fl)  56 
Oh! dear what can the matter be (fl)  57 
Not drunk, nor yet sober, but brother to both (fl)  58 
When fortune doth frown (fl)  59-60 
This world is a stage (fl)  60-63  15 
"Who'll serve the King?" cried the serjeant aloud (fl)  63-65 
My father he left me a snug little cot (fl)  65-66 
Sister Ruth, once a Quaker, so coy and so prim (fl)  66 
Come each jovial fellow who loves to be mellow (fl)  67-68 
Come all you pretty maidens, some older some younger (fl)  68-69 
It was far retired from noise and smoke (fl)  69-70 
I forget what Sterne says in his chapter of Noses (fl)  70-71 
My merry gentle people pray (fl)  71-73 
To know which was the smartest girl, three goddesses one day (fl)  73-74 
Diogenes, surly and proud (fl)  74-76 
Come, none of your nonsense, I'm not to be had (fl)  76-77 
As you mean to set sail for the land of delight (fl)  77-78 
Attention pray give, while of Hobbies I sing (fl)  78-80 
My father was once a great marchant (fl)  80-82 
O what a dainty fine thing is the girl I love (fl)  82-83 
Arrah come, sons of Erin, I'll give you a song (fl)  83-84 
Blacksmith, you'll own, is so clever, A (fl)  84-85 
John Bull for pastime took a prance (fl)  85-87 
To Anacreon in heaven, where he sat in full glee (fl)  87-89 
When I was a boy in my father's mud edifice (fl)  89-90 
You say, Sir, once a wit allow'd (fl)  90-91   
I'm Jlloy Dick, the lamplighter [sic] (fl)  91-92 
It chanc'd one day, that a crow so black (fl)  92-93 
I 'listed wid old blinking Barney (fl)  93-94 
Says my father, says he, one day to I (fl)  94-96 
Says Richard to Thomas. (and seem'd half afraid) (fl)  96-97 
By the side of a bridge which stands over a brook (fl)  97-98 
'Twas Saturday night, six went the clock (fl)  98-99 
And did you ne'er hear of an Irish hay-maker (fl)  99-101 
Your zarvant good gentlefolks, how d' ye all do? (fl)  101-103 
Having read in the news much of fortification (fl)  103-104 
My Father, who always knew what he were at (fl)  104-105 
Gallants attend, and hear a friend (fl)  105-108  11 
Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown (fl)  108-109 
Don't you see that as how I'm a sportsman in style (fl)  109-111 
You may talk of sweet passion, and wishing, and wooing (fl)  111-112 
Lawyer, quite famous for making a bill, A (fl)  112-113 
Farmer, once, who wanted much, A (fl)  113-114  10 
Well there is in the west country, A (fl)  114-116  13 
High fill the bowl, and round it twine (fl)  117-118 
We be three poor freebooters (fl)  118-119 
Columbia! the only Republic on earth (fl)  120-122 
How mournful flow Columbia's strains (fl)  122-124  10 
Bold Barclay, one day to Proctor did say (fl)  124-127  10 
Watery God, great Neptune lay, The (fl)  127-129 
Streamers were flying---the Canvas was spreading, The (fl)  129-130 
When Britain saw her sons were brave (fl)  130-133  14 
Again the voice of Victory cheers (fl)  134-135  10 
Fresh blows the gale---o'er ocean's azure realm (fl)  135-137  12 
Ye gallant sons of Liberty (fl)  137-140  16 
Hail to the Heroes whose triumphs have brighten'd (fl)  140-141 
Yankee tars! come join the chorus (fl)  142-144  13 
Banner of freedom high floated unfurl'd, The (fl)  144-146  10 
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