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Short Title Theatrical Songster, 1815 
Title Theatrical Songster, The 
Pages 216 
Publisher Brown, Thomas 
Location NHi/0AoA/Rdx MF 36075 
Date 1815 
Place Boston 
Data Place Rdx S36075 
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First Line Page Verses
Awake the loud trumpet, 'tis freedom invites (fl)  3-4 
When injur'd Freedom's pilgrim band (fl)  4-5 
To Liberty's enraptur'd sight (fl)  5-6 
When Freedom was banish'd from Greece and from Rome (fl)  6-7 
That seat of science Athens, and earth's proud mistress Rome (fl) 
When Freedom first the triumph sung (fl) 
Let patriot pride our patriot triumph wake! (fl)  10-12 
Strike! strike the chord, raise! raise the strain (fl)  12-13 
Rejoice! rejoice! Columbia's sons rejoice! (fl)  13-16 
See they come! the heroes come! (fl)  17-18 
Ye sons of Free Columbia (fl)  18-19 
When Freedom, fair Freedom, her banner display'd (fl)  19-21 
Arouse! arouse! Columbia's sons arouse! (fl)  21-23 
Brittannia's gallant streamers (fl)  24-26 
Ye brave sons of Freedom, whose bosoms beat high (fl)  26-28  11 
How glows each patriot bosom that boasts a Yankee heart (fl)  29-31 
Come each true-blooded Yankee, and join me in my song (fl)  31-33 
Rejoice! rejoice! Fredonia's sons rejoice (fl)  33-35 
O'er the bosom of Erie, in fanciful pride (fl)  35-36 
Argo of Greece, who brought the fleece (fl)  36-38 
O! Freemen, raise a joyous strain! (fl)  38 
Och! if a song you would have me to sing (fl)  39-40 
Ye gallant tars---your country's pride (fl)  40-41 
Ye seamen of Columbia (fl)  41-42 
Wreaths for the Chieftain we honor! who planted (fl)  42-43 
When the warrior returns from the battle afar (fl)  43-45 
Swift o'er the land on his fast flowing pinions (fl)  46-47 
Oh! the land of sweet Erin's a land of delight (fl)  49-50 
Come all you pretty maidens, some older, some younger (fl)  50-51 
When I was a lad in the land of Kilkenny (fl)  52-53 
Jolly fat friar lov'd liquor good store, A (fl)  53-54 
Oh, whack! Cupid's a Manakin (fl)  54-55 
Your laughter I'll try to provoke (fl)  55-56 
My father was once a great Marchant (fl)  56-58 
Dogs began to bark, The (fl)  58-59 
Give Isaac the nymph who no beauty can boast (fl)  59-60 
I married a wife, who cares says I (fl)  60-61 
When I was at home, I was merry and frisky (fl)  61-62 
Search the world round and about (fl)  62-63 
Ah, pooh, botheration, dear Ireland's the nation (fl)  63-65 
Young Roger, the ploughman, who wanted a mate (fl)  65-66 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  66-67 
John tripp'd up the stairs by night (fl)  67 
O, love is the soul of a neat Irishman (fl)  68-69 
British lion is my sign, The (fl)  69-70 
Sure never a lad lov'd like Paddy O'Blany (fl)  70-71 
All you who would wish to succeed with a lass (fl)  72 
Says Patrick to Judy, "I'll no longer stay" (fl)  72-73 
When young, I sung (fl)  74-75 
One moonshiny night, about two in the morning (fl)  76-78 
As sound as a nut o'er the plain (fl)  78-80  10 
Ye nymphs who unthinkingly rove (fl)  80-81  11 
When I was a boy in my father's mud edifice (fl)  81-83 
Old Flam was a lawyer so grim (fl)  83 
Oh! in Ireland so frisky, with sweet girls and whiskey (fl)  84-85 
Fond husband will, after a conjugal strife, A (fl)  85-86 
Bagdat is the place for fun (fl)  86-87 
I was born one day when my mother was out (fl)  87-89 
What shall we have for supper Mrs. Bond? (fl)  89-90 
If my own botheration don't alter my plan (fl)  90-92 
O when my farm is taken (fl)  92-94 
When I was a boy, just as high as a span (fl)  94-95 
My merry gentle people (fl)  95-97 
When I was at home with my father and mother (fl)  97-98 
Mother were dead, and sister were married (fl)  98-100 
Oh! when I was christen'd 'twas on a fair day (fl)  100-101 
Traveller stopp'd at a widow's gate, A (fl)  101-102 
I'm parish clerk, and sexton here (fl)  102-103   
Ye winds and ye waves, bear my sorrows away (fl)  103-104 
By the side of a murmuring stream (fl)  104-105 
Dear me, how I long to be married (fl)  105 
Attention pray give while of hobbies I sing (fl)  106-107 
Come listen awhile and I'll sing you a ditty (fl)  107-110 
When first I was married to Katy O'Connor (fl)  110-111 
Major M'Pherson heav'd a sigh (fl)  111-112 
Adown a dark alley I courted a maid (fl)  112-113 
Since sounding drums, and rising war (fl)  117-118 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  118-119 
Adieu, adieu, my only life (fl)  119-120 
Adieu, my dear Henry, to glory you fly (fl)  120-121 
Hark! hark sweet lass, the trumpet sounds (fl)  121-122 
Cease! cease! those sighs I cannot bear (fl)  122 
Distant trumpet calls me, The (fl)  122-123 
Our bugles had sung, for the night-cloud had lower'd (fl)  123-124 
Oh! where? and oh, where is your Highland laddie gone? (fl)  125 
Sun sets at night, and the stars shun the day, The (fl)  125-126 
Alone to the banks of the dark-rolling Danube (fl)  126-127 
'Twas in the evening of a winter day (fl)  128 
Farewell to America, dear Mary, adieu! (fl)  129-130 
Tear fell gently from her eye, The (fl)  130 
When the sails catch the breeze, and the anchor is weigh'd (fl)  131-132 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The (fl)  132-133 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  133-134 
Faintly as tolls the ev'ning chime (fl)  134 
Oh! tell me not of reason now (fl)  135 
Not to love is full of pain (fl)  135-136 
Oh! I could leave forever more (fl)  136 
Gentle swan, with graceful pride, The (fl)  137-138 
Come, come bonny lassie, cried Sandy awa' (fl)  138-139 
Wilt thou say farewell, love (fl)  139 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  140 
Returning from a fair, one eve (fl)  141 
I have parks, I have grounds (fl)  142 
I have lov'd thee, dearly lov'd thee (fl)  142-143 
Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbors (fl)  143-144 
Here wanton gales perfume the glade (fl)  144-145 
Body may in simple way, A (fl)  145 
Blithe Sandy is a bonny boy (fl)  146 
From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested (fl)  147 
Will you come to the bower I've shaded for you (fl)  147-148 
As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping (fl)  148 
Oh! why should the girl of my soul be in tears (fl)  149 
Bright god of day, drew west ward his way, The (fl)  149-150 
Alexis, how artless a lover! (fl)  150-151 
Say, have you seen my Arabell (fl)  151-152 
Henry came to me last week (fl)  152   
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  153 
Kathelin sat all alone (fl)  153-154 
Heath this night must be my bed, The (fl)  154-155 
Returning home across the plain (fl)  155-156 
Why does azure deck the sky (fl)  156-157 
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain (fl)  157 
When I first saw the youth who to me came a wooing (fl)  158 
Ruddy Damon, sighing said (fl)  159   
Love's a cheat---we over-rate it (fl)  159 
When those eyes in azure splendor (fl)  160-161 
Once I know in maddening hour (fl)  161 
I wander'd once at break of day (fl)  162 
Oh, take me to your arms my love (fl)  163 
Ah! where can fly my soul's true love (fl)  164 
Maiden, why indulge in sorrow (fl)  164-165 
When first you courted me (fl)  165-166 
Go, faithless man, nor think my heart (fl)  166 
Since truth has left the shepherd's tongue (fl)  167 
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat (fl)  167-168 
Fragrant as the rose-bud, throwing (fl)  168-169 
Why, fair maid, in ev'ry feature (fl)  169-170 
My seventeenth year scarce over (fl)  170-172 
Where shall the lover rest (fl)  172-173 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  174 
Cold blew the wind, no gleam of light (fl)  175-176 
Village hind with toil had done, The (fl)  176-177 
To Mary's sad story give ear gentle stranger (fl)  177-178 
When pensive I thought of my love (fl)  178 
Moon had climb'd the highest hill, The (fl)  178-179 
Ah, Delia see the fatal hour (fl)  180-181 
From thee, Eliza, I must, go (fl)  181-182 
Does the harp of Rosa slumber (fl)  182 
Chaste Delia's spouse was far away (fl)  182-185  17 
On this cold, flinty rock, I will lay down my head (fl)  185-186 
Since then I 'm doom'd this sad reverse to prove (fl)  186 
Faint and wearliy the way-worn traveller (fl)  187 
Why are we fond of toil and care (fl)  187-188 
As Cupid in a garden stray'd (fl)  188-189 
In the dead of the night, when, with labor oppres'd (fl)  189-190 
As, Venus, late you miss'd your boy (fl)  190 
Fair one! take this rose and wreath it in thy braided hair (fl)  191 
Beams of the morning the tears had not dried, The (fl)  191-192 
There is a bloom that never fades (fl)  193 
As I saw fair Chlora walk along (fl)  193 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The (fl)  194 
Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn (fl)  194-195 
Dusky night rides down the sky, The (fl)  196-197 
Morn unbars the gates of light, The (fl)  197 
Hark! hark! the joy-inspiring horn (fl)  198 
Away, away, you're all the same (fl)  199 
With woman's form and woman's tricks (fl)  199-200 
Mock me no more with love's beguiling dreams (fl)  200 
Let Fame sound the trumpet, and cry to the war (fl)  201 
To a woodman's hut there came one day (fl)  201-202 
Look forth, cruel maid, from thy chamber of love (fl)  202-203   
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