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Short Title Diamond Scottish Irish Lively, 1817 
Title Diamond Songster, The 
Pages 70 
Publisher Lucas, Fielding, Jun'r 
Location MdHi. RPB/Rdx MF 40658/[MWA 413 songs:Lowens] 
Date 1817 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place Rdx S40658 
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O say, can you see, [by the dawn's early light] (fl) 
Ye banks and braes, and streams around (fl) 
[Dear sir, this brown jug that now foams with mild ale] (fl) 
[As down on Banna's banks I stray'd] (fl)  4-5 
Fly not yet! 'tis just the hour (fl) 
[Beyond yon hills where Lugar flows] (fl) 
[Dear Erin! how sweetly thy green bosom rises] (fl) 
Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell my Jean (fl) 
[Saw ye my wee thing?] (fl)  10 
Go where glory waits thee (fl) 
How imperfect is expression (fl) 
How oft has the Benshee cried [sic] (fl) 
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  7-8 
[Lass of Patie's mill, The] (fl) 
[Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers] (fl) 
Hope told a flatt'ring tale (fl) 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl) 
[Wilt thou be my dearie] (fl) 
John Anderson, my Jo, John (fl) 
Here a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling (fl)  10 
[Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doun] (fl)  10 
Saw ye nae my Peggy (fl)  10 
O, ever in my bosom live (fl)  10-11 
[Of a' the airts the wind can blaw] (fl)  11 
All in the Downs the fleet [lay] moor'd (fl)  11-12 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  12 
How stands the glass around? (fl)  12 
[Wear with me the rosy wreath] (fl)  12 
[Ah! Dark are the halls where your ancestors revell'd] (fl)  13 
Shepherds, I have lost my love (fl)  13 
I have parks, I have grounds, I have deer, I have hounds (fl)  13 
[As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow] (fl)  13 
Ah! Sigh not for love, if you wish not to know (fl)  14 
In April, when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  14 
Dear is my little native vale (fl)  14 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  14 
One morning very early, one morning in the spring (fl)  15 
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  15 
['Tis believed that this harp, which I wake now for thee] (fl)  15 
[Ah! sweet were the moments when love vows repeating] (fl)  16 
Down the burn and through the mead (fl)  16 
[Oh! think not my spirits are always as light] (fl)  16 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  16-17 
Come live with me, and be my love (fl)  17 
[Oh! Hush the soft sigh, maid, and dry the sweet tear] (fl)  17 
[From thee Eliza I must, go] (fl)  17 
Far retir'd from noise and smoke (fl)  18 
As pensive one night in my garret I sat (fl)  18 
[How hard's the fate o' womankind] (fl)  18-19 
Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone (fl)  19 
Drink to her who long (fl)  19 
[Here's a health to ane I loe dear] (fl)  20 
[Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt] (fl)  20 
[Life let us cherish] (fl)  20-21 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  21 
O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (fl)  21 
My Peggy is a young thing (fl)  21 
I have a silent sorrow (fl)  22 
Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers (fl)  22 
Deep in a vale a cottage stood (fl)  22 
When the black-lettered list to the gods was presented (fl)  23 
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  23 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl)  23 
Adieu! a heart warm, fond adieu! (fl)  24 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  24 
Come let me take thee to my heart (fl)  24 
Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  24 
O whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad; (fl)  25 
Oh! The moment was sad when my love and I parted (fl)  25 
On Etrick banks, ae summer's night (fl)  25 
Oh! 'Tis sweet to think that, where'er we rove (fl)  26 
O Logie of Buchan, O Logie the laird (fl)  26 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  26 
Last time I came o'er the moor, The (fl)  27 
[My Eva! see this op'ning rose] (fl)  27 
[Down in the valley the sun setting clearly] (fl)  27 
Oh! Why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Gray (fl)  28 
[Sweet Annie fra the Sea Beach came] (fl)  28 
Rose had been wash'd---just wash'd in a shower, The (fl)  28 
Shall I, wasting in despair (fl)  29 
'Twas within a mile of Edinburgh town (fl)  29 
What beauties does Flora disclose? (fl)  29 
To thy green fields, sweet [Erin] (fl)  30 
When day-light was yet sleeping ubder the billow (fl)  30 
[Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps] (fl)  30 
Rose tree in full bearing, A (fl)  30 
[Silent, oh Music!] (fl)  31 
Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue (fl)  31 
Says Plato, why should [man be vain?] (fl)  31 
[While gazing on the moon's light] (fl)  31 
[When thro' life unblest we rove] (fl)  32 
Adieu to the village delights (fl)  32 
[Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The] (fl)  32 
Why does azure deck the sky? (fl)  32 
Oh, take me to your arms my love, for keen the wind doth blow (fl)  33 
Night o'er the world her curtain hung (fl)  33 
'Twas in that season of the year (fl)  33 
To a shady retreat, fair Eliza I trac'd (fl)  33 
When gloomy night had taken flight (fl)  34 
When the rosy morn appearing (fl)  34 
Sleep on, sleep on, my Kathleen dear (fl)  34 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl)  34 
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own (fl)  34 
Oh! weep for the hour (fl)  35 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  35 
Young May moon is beaming, Love, The (fl)  35 
Take, oh take those lips away (fl)  35 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  36 
Lassie wi' the lint-white locks (fl)  36 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  36 
When Sappho tuned the raptur'd strain (fl)  37 
[When first I saw my Mary's face] (fl)  37 
[Beam on the streamlet was playing, The] (fl)  37 
[Rose-bud by my early walk, A] [sic] (fl)  37 
Why, fair maid, in every feature (fl)  38 
[When in death I shall calm recline] (fl)  38 
[When first I ken'd young Sandy's face] (fl)  38 
[Goodnight and joy be wi' ye a'] (fl)  38-39 
There was a lass and she was fair (fl)  39 
[We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast] (fl)  39 
Said a smile to a tear (fl)  40 
When wild war's deadly blast was blown, (fl)  40 
[There's not a look, a word of thine] (fl)  40 
Adieu my lov'd harp, for no more shall the vale (fl)  41 
I'm wearing awa', Jean (fl)  41 
O this is no my ain lassie (fl)  41 
Peaceful slumb'ring on the ocean (fl)  41 
Oh! why should the girl of my soul be in tears (fl)  42 
[There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet] (fl)  42 
Go,. Edmund, join the martial throng, (fl)  42 
Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure (fl)  42 
Tho' the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  43 
Sweet is the ship that under sail [sic] (fl)  43 
[Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour] (fl)  43 
[Rich and rare were the gems she wore] (fl)  44 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  44 
[Wilt thou say farewell, love, and from Zelinda part] (fl)  44 
[Will you come to the bower I've shaded for you] (fl)  44 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  45 
When first you courted me (fl)  45 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer (fl)  45 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  45 
[At dawn I rose with jocund glee] (fl)  45 
One bumper at parting! -- though many (fl)  46 
[O Nancy, wilt thou go with me] (fl)  46 
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch (fl)  46 
Dear harp of my country! In darkness I found thee (fl)  47 
[Sublime was the warning that Liberty spoke] (fl)  47 
Fairest maid on Devon banks [sic] (fl)  47 
There's cauld kail in Aberdeen (fl)  48 
[When first I met thee, warm and young] (fl)  48 
My love's like the red, red rose (fl)  48 
Should auld acquaintance be forgot (fl)  49 
[Oh! where's the slave, so lowly] (fl)  49 
[There's naught but care on evry han' [sic]] (fl)  49 
[Oh! doubt me not -- the season] (fl)  49 
[Like the bright lamp, that lay in Kildare's holy shrine] (fl)  50 
[This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes] (fl)  50 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  50 
Through Erin's Isle (fl)  51 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  51 
Oh! the days are gone, when [beauty bright] (fl)  51 
Powers celestial, whose protection (fl)  51 
When Bibo went down to the regions below (fl)  52 
[Oak of our Fathers, to Freedom was dear, The] (fl)  52 
[To Liberty's enraptured sight] (fl)  52 
O'er the bosom of Erie, in fanciful pride (fl)  53 
[Tom Starboard was a lover true] (fl)  53 
Come let us prepare (fl)  53 
[It is not that my lot is low] (fl)  54 
[Wafted by the breeze to shore] (fl)  54 
[Here we dwell, in holiest bowers] (fl)  54 
Faintly as tolls. the ev'ning chime (fl)  54 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  55 
[Our bugles had sung for the night cloud had lower'd] (fl)  55 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  55 
[No, not more welcome the fairy numbers] (fl)  55 
[Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon] (fl)  56 
[Shadows of eve 'gan to steal o'er the plain, The] (fl)  56 
[Merrily every bosom boundeth, merrily oh! merrily oh!] (fl)  56 
[Oh! weep not sweet maid] (fl)  56 
Since sounding drums, and rising war (fl)  57 
[Weep on, weep on, your hour is past] (fl)  57 
[On a bank of flowers, in a summer day] (fl)  57 
Like the frail bark tost in the foamy deep (fl)  57 
[Here's the bow'r she loved so much] (fl)  58 
[Away with melancholy] (fl)  58 
[What the bee is to the floweret] (fl)  58 
[From the white blossom'd sloe, My dear Chloe requested] (fl)  58 
[Friend of my soul, this goblet sip] (fl)  58 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  59 
Young love flew to the Paphian bow'r (fl)  59 
What's this dull town to me, Robin's not here (fl)  59 
[Harp that once through Tarra's halls, The] [sic] (fl)  59 
Young Henry was as brave a youth (fl)  59 
[Fair Sally, once the village pride] (fl)  60 
[We bipeds made up of frail clay] (fl)  60 
Of the ancients is't speaking my soul you'd be after (fl)  60 
['Twas at the town of neat Clogheen] (fl)  61 
[There was an Irish lad, Who lov'd a cloister'd nun] (fl)  61 
Diogenes surly and proud (fl)  62 
Now we are freed from college rules (fl)  62 
[It was Murphy Delaney, so funny and frisky] (fl)  63 
Arrah Peggy's my fancy (fl)  63 
From the county of Cork, you see I lately came (fl)  64 
Our immortal poet's page (fl)  64-65 
What shall we have for supper Mrs. Bond [sic] (fl)  65   
Oh whack! Cupid's marn'kin [sic] (fl)  65 
My name is Donald M'Donald (fl)  66 
Last week I took a wife (fl)  66 
Sweet sir, for your courtesie (fl)  66-67 
[Here are catches, songs and glees] (fl)  67 
Wha wad na be in love (fl)  67 
[Oh! The boys of Kilkenny are nate roaring blades] (fl)  68 
Major M'Pherson heav'd a sigh (fl)  68 
Spruce Mister Clark, The (fl)  68 
Landlady of France she loved an officer, A (fl)  69 
[To a woodman's hut there came one day] (fl)  69 
O the face of brave Captain Megan (fl)  69 
I am a friar of order grey (fl)  69 
[Turban'd Turk, who scorns the world, The] (fl)  70 
Your laughter I'll try to provoke (fl)  70 
Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown (fl)  70 
When first from Kilkenny, as fresh as a daisy (fl)  71 
If you'd travel the wide world over (fl)  71 
Yea, I fell in the pit of love (fl)  71 
In Ireland so frisky, with sweet girls and whisky (fl)  72 
I'm a Jew you may tell by my peard and my progue Taral, &c. (fl)  72 
[Dear Kathleen, you no doubt] (fl)  72 
[When I took my departure from Dublin sweet town] (fl)  73 
['Tis truth in my youth I was frisky and gay] (fl)  73 
Ye sons of Hibernia, who snug on dry land (fl)  74-75  10 
[Boys, when I play, cry, oh! Crimin] (fl)  75 
Jolly shoemaker , John Hobbs, John Hobbs, A (fl)  76 
[When I was a boy in my father's mud edifice] (fl)  76 
Irish lad's a jolly boy, An (fl)  76-77 
Ye lads and ye lasses so boxom and clever (fl)  77 
[Throughout my life the girls I've pleas'd] (fl)  77 
Jolly fat parson lov'd liquor good store, A (fl)  78 
There was once it is said (fl)  78-79  19 
Tom Tackle was noble, was true to his word (fl)  79  10 
One moon shiney night, about two in the morning (fl)  80 
I've carried arms thro' lands afar (fl)  80-81 
I vonsh vash but a pedlar, and my shop vash in my box (fl)  81 
When I was near manhood I grew sick of home (fl)  82-83  14 
Amo amas, I love by the mass (fl)  83 
Love is the soul of a neat Irishman (fl)  83 
When first Miss Kitty came to town (fl)  84   
When I was a lad I had cause to be sad (fl)  84  10 
Mother was dead and sister was married (fl)  85-86 
Assist me ye lads, who have hearts void of guile (fl)  85 
Come listen! I sing to the lovers of fun (fl)  86  10 
If my own botheration don't alter my plans (fl)  86-87 
Your pardon kind gentlefolk pray (fl)  87 
Without the help of a gamut, note, demi-semiquaver, or minim (fl)  88 
When I was at home, I was merry and frisky (fl)  88 
Willie Wastle dwelt on Tweed (fl)  89 
That the world it goes round by arithmetic rules (fl)  89 
At Symond's Inn I sip my tea (fl)  89 
You know I'm your priest, and your conscience is mine (fl)  90 
In a nate little cabin not far from Kilkenny (fl)  90 
At Wapping I landed, and call'd to hail Mog (fl)  90-91 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  91 
There was an ancient fair, oh she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  91 
When talking of bulls, only mention our forefathers (fl)  92 
Och, I sing of a wedding, and that at Dunleary (fl)  92 
Passing bell was heard to toll, The (fl)  92-93 
When first I was married to Kitty O'Connor (fl)  93 
There was Cormac O'Con (fl)  93 
When I was a lad in the land of Kilkenney (fl)  94 
Ah, pooh, botheration, dear Ireland's the nation (fl)  94 
There went three kings into the east (fl)  94-95  15 
Two real tars whom duty call'd (fl)  95 
My love she's but a lassie yet (fl)  95 
In good king Charles's golden days (fl)  96 
Oh! light is the heart, ever jocund and gay (fl)  96 
Flow, thou regal purple stream (fl)  96 
On Ireland's ground seat of true hospitality (fl)  97 
Oh! come on some cold rainy day (fl)  97 
As close to the sturdy sole (fl)  97 
Arrah, honies, my dear (fl)  98 
Ods-blood! what a time for seamen to skulk (fl)  98 
When the fancy-stirring bowl (fl)  99 
Kathelin sat all alone (fl)  99 
Gad-A-Mercy! devil's in me (fl)  99 
Such beauties as you I--- (fl)  100 
Dame Nature one day in a comical mood (fl)  100 
In Chester town a man there dwelt (fl)  101 
Monsieur grown sick of fricasee (fl)  101 
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen (fl)  102 
Sure won't you hear what roaring cheer (fl)  102 
George Barnwell stood at the shop door (fl)  102-103 
Fill to the brave who contend in the field (fl)  103 
O charming Dolly, fat and sleek (fl)  103 
By the side of a murmuring stream (fl)  104 
You may talk of a brogue and of Ireland, sweet nation (fl)  104 
I was born once at home when my [mother] was out (fl)  104-105 
Woman is like to---but stay--- (fl)  105 
Billy Tailyer, a brisk young sailyer (fl)  105 
Begone, dull care, I pr'ythee begone from me (fl)  106 
Had I in the clear, but five hundred a year (fl)  106 
Ize a Yorkshire man just come to town (fl)  106-107 
Oh! woman they say was created one day (fl)  107 
Few years ago, in the days of my grannam, A (fl)  107 
To Anacreon in heaven, where he sat in full glee (fl)  108 
O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut (fl)  108 
'Twas business requir'd I'd from Dublin be straying (fl)  109 
My merry gentle people (fl)  109 
Youth took a wife, A (fl)  110 
Your mountain sack, your Froninac (fl)  110 
Arrah Tippo, your highness, give over your fun (fl)  110-111 
Come haste to the wedding ye friends and ye neighbours (fl)  111 
Mrs. Waddle was a widow, and she made no little gain (fl)  111 
I married a wife "who cares" says I (fl)  112 
I was call'd knowing Joe by the boys of our town (fl)  112 
Attention pray give, while of hobbies I sing (fl)  113 
Glass is good and a lass is good, A (fl)  113 
Love in little maidens heart (fl)  113 
There liv'd a man in Baleno crazy [sic] (fl)  114 
Did you ever hear of captain Wattle? (fl)  114 
Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  114-115 
In a neighbourly way, with an honest man's fame (fl)  115 
Wit, Love, and Reputation walk'd (fl)  115 
Old Homer nodded long ago (fl)  116 
Old Homer! but with him what have we to do [sic] (fl)  116-117  10 
Tho' with Puffs daily papers are cram'd, sir (fl)  117 
While people call'd poets, in blank verse or rhime (fl)  117 
There is one thing, my friends, I must offer to you (fl)  118  10 
It was as one morning on Ida Jove shone [sic] (fl)  118-119 
Come bustle, bustle, drink about (fl)  119 
British lion is my sign, The (fl)  119 
Circe, was a precious piece (fl)  120 
Some have travers'd the fathomless ocean (fl)  120 
Shew me a lawyer refusing a good fee (fl)  120 
Story, or song, you have left to my choice, A (fl)  121  11 
In Londres I vas taylor nice (fl)  121 
[White Winter has left us, with all its chill train] (fl)  122 
Keep your distance, quoth king, who in lead coffin lay (fl)  122-123  10 
Blythe ha'e I been on yon hill (fl)  123 
Cupid sent a message one evening by Venus (fl)  123 
[O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west] (fl)  124 
Tho' a cobler is call'd but a low occupation (fl)  124-125  10 
See the pall-supporting bearers (fl)  125 
Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair (fl)  125 
Ah, how sweet it is to love (fl)  126 
Push about the brisk bowl, 'twill enliven the heart (fl)  126 
Behold on the brow the leaves play in the breeze (fl)  126-127 
I'll strive to sing something, yet wou'd not do wrong (fl)  127 
Oh! had I Allan Ramsay's art (fl)  127 
Fond father's bliss is to number his race, A (fl)  128 
Songs of shepherds, in rustical roundelay (fl)  128 
[Ye bibbers who sip limpid Helicon's rill] (fl)  128-129 
Ere around the huge oak that o'ershadows yon mill (fl)  129 
Will ye gang o'er the lee rig (fl)  129 
One evening, good humour took wit as his guest (fl)  130 
O Love will venture in, where it dare na weel be seen (fl)  130 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The (fl)  131 
How weak is the wisdom of man (fl)  131 
Sweet sung the lark, high pois'd in air (fl)  131 
Our reck'nin we've paid, here's to all bon repos (fl)  132 
Since the world is so odd, and the times are so new (fl)  132 
Lasses fain wad hae from me, The (fl)  133 
Highland lad my love was born, A (fl)  133 
O! send Lewis Gordon hame (fl)  133 
Loose every sail to the breeze (fl)  134 
Since at last I am free (fl)  134 
As wa'king forth to view the plain (fl)  134 
Braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes (fl)  135 
How blythe ilk the morn was I to see (fl)  135 
Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd (fl)  135 
When prudence declaims how time passes (fl)  136 
Bride came out o' the byre, The (fl)  136 
In winter when the rain rain'd cauld (fl)  136-137 
O lassie art thou sleeping yet (fl)  137 
Lawland lads think they are fine, The (fl)  137 
Tuneful Lav'rocks cheer the grove, The (fl)  138 
Come under my plaidy, the night's gaun to fa' (fl)  138 
Our chorus to Bacchus, to Bacchus we'll raise (fl)  139 
It was the charming month of May (fl)  139 
Say Patie is a lover gay (fl)  139 
Back side Albany stan' Lake Champlain (fl)  140 
Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder (fl)  140 
What beauties does Flora disclose (fl)  140-141 
It is the hour when from the boughs (fl)  141 
Adown a dark alley I courted a maid (fl)  141 
Merrily, merrily, bounds the bark (fl)  141 
Sun has gone down o'er the lofty Benlomand, The (fl)  142 
Thou'rt gane awa', thou'rt gane awa' (fl)  142 
I enter thy garden of roses (fl)  142 
Let him who sighs in sadness here (fl)  143 
Ah! love was never yet without (fl)  143  11 
Thou art not false, but thou art fickle (fl)  143 
Since then I'm doom'd this sad reverse to prove (fl)  144 
Sleep, thou leaden, lazy god (fl)  144 
Nae gentle dames, though e'er sae fair (fl)  144 
When I rov'd, a young highlander, o'er the dark heath (fl)  145 
Young Jockey call'd me his delight (fl)  145 
Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells (fl)  146 
Light are the hearts of the gay sons of Erin (fl)  146 
He was fam'd for deeds of arms (fl)  147 
Come hither, come hither---by night and by day (fl)  147 
Mr. Borne and his wife (fl)  147 
I saw thee weep---the big bright tear (fl)  148 
Sir Jerry go Nimble was lame of a leg (fl)  148 
Come, strike the bold anthem, the war dogs are howling (fl)  148-149 
Fly to the desert, fly with me (fl)  149  11 
When coldness wraps this suffering clay (fl)  149 
O tell me not that wine will sooth (fl)  150 
We sat down and wept by the waters (fl)  150 
Thy days are done, thy fame begun (fl)  150 
Strike! strike! the chord, raise! raise! the strain (fl)  150-151 
Faint and wearliy the way worn traveller (fl)  151 
Wits were wont in ancient times, The (fl)  151 
Jemmy O'Kane, and Pat Mac Hone were friends (fl)  151-152   
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