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Short Title Songster's New PC, 1817 
Title Songster's New Pocket Companion, The 
Pages 188 
Publisher Swan, T. 
Location RPB Songster Coll SO58873,MH Rdx 42167 
Date 1817 
Place Boston 
Data Place Rdx 42167 
Comments Music notation for several songs in Appendix. 
First Line Page Verses
Storm that rends the winter's sky, The (fl) 
Lofty pine that lifts its form, The (fl) 
Landlady of France she loved an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  4-5 
Tell, soldier, tell! and mark, you tell me truly (fl)  5-6  10 
Who are you? The Ghost of Grim (fl)  7-8 
Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  8-9 
Once, tir'd of life, I took a wife (fl)  9-10 
You've heard of Nykey Numskull of Yorkshire, I'll be sworn (fl)  10-11  11 
Adown a green valley there liv'd an old maid (fl)  11-12 
[Oh!] have you not heard of a story (fl)  12-15 
Playhouse of Liquor, 'tis found, A (fl)  15-16 
There was a merry widow, and she was very fat (fl)  16-17 
To her daughter t'other day (fl)  17-18 
Young man came, I'll not tell where, A (fl)  18 
When first a little Smouchy, no higher than as that (fl)  19-20 
Scholar one time, tho' I can't tell you when (fl)  20-22 
When I chang'd my smock-frock for a jacket of blue (fl)  22-23 
I've often been where poets say (fl)  23 
When Charley did his love confess (fl)  24 
There were two Tom cats on a wall (fl)  25-26 
Humanity's soft gentle hands (fl)  26 
Young Allan rode across the green heath (fl)  26-27 
Ask'st thou how long my love shall stay (fl)  28 
Ladies how d'ye do? (fl)  28-29 
Bonny Charley, hie thee frae' ane (fl)  29-30 
Dearest girl, I long have lov'd you (fl)  30-31 
Village hinds were hush'd to sleep, The (fl)  31-32 
I sing of Mrs. Ruggins, The fairest of the fair (fl)  32-33 
Traveller stopt at a widow's gate, A (fl)  33-34 
Young Humphrey liv'd in Drury Lane (fl)  34-35 
When I was a lad, I had cause to be sad (fl)  35-37 
Miss Wigley her lovers called first of the fair (fl)  37-38 
Young Bobby was as blithe a youth (fl)  39 
In Windemere Vale a rose there once flourish'd (fl)  39-40 
Around the face of blue-ey'd Sue (fl)  40-41 
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses (fl)  41-42 
William and Jonathan came to town together (fl)  42-43 
One morning, o'er the meadow green (fl)  43-44 
My bonny braw lad has forsaken the plain (fl)  44 
Jack and I were both messmates a long time at sea (fl)  45-46 
Old Nathan to his wife did say (fl)  46 
'Twas Pat of Londonderry That lov'd fair Dublin's Kate (fl)  47-48 
There's something in kissing, I cannot tell why (fl)  48 
Here's the bow'r she lov'd so much (fl)  49 
I've seen the day, when warriors bold (fl)  49-50 
Sir Go-to-bed Ninny, a wooing would go (fl)  50 
At Mecca, where Mahomet swings in the air (fl)  51-52 
'Twas a keen frosty morn, and the snow heavy falling (fl)  52-53 
Young Johhn [Mac Clean, loved Jenny Mac Grigger] (fl)  53-54 
There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  54-55 
At the front of a cottage, with woodbine grown o'er (fl)  55-56 
Adown a dark alley I courted a maid (fl)  56-57 
Light on Marmion's visage spread, A (fl)  57-58 
To a village that skirted the sea (fl)  58-59 
I'm a tough, true-hearted sailor (fl)  59-60 
True-hearted was he, the swain of the Yarrow (fl)  60-61 
His Worship, Justice Gander, sworn newly of the peace (fl)  61-63 
Why should man at fate repining (fl)  63-64 
Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl, A (fl)  64-65 
Paddy Shannon, high mounted on his trotting little poney (fl)  66-67 
Spruce Mr. Clark, The (fl)  67-68 
Will Putty was a glazier bold (fl)  68-69 
My Massa be lord of the Black Castle here (fl)  69-70 
Then Billy Le Maitre, of Monument Yard (fl)  70-71 
Little old woman was taken ill, A (fl)  72-73 
Tom Gobble was a grocer's son (fl)  73-74 
Distant trumpet calls me, The (fl)  74-75 
I love, and am belov'd again (fl)  75 
Lawyer Gruftykotz of our town (fl)  75-76 
Heigho! said a maid, as she sat at a gate (fl)  76-77 
Miss Margery Muggins she was a fair maid (fl)  78-79 
  79-80 
Mr. Cook, he kept an eating house (fl)  80-81 
Old Neptune's sons, a hardy race (fl)  81-83   
  83-85 
At the Baron of Mow'bray's gate was seen (fl)  85 
Day was clos'd, the moon shone bright, The (fl)  86 
When sable night, esch drooping plant restoring (fl)  86-87 
How oft, Louisa, hast thou said (fl)  87-88 
Oh! the days when I was young (fl)  88 
Hero's life I sing, A (fl)  89-91 
Maiden sure there was, she was ugly, old, and tough, A (fl)  91-93 
Oh! when I was christen'd 'twas a fair day (fl)  93-94 
One April morn, while dew-drops hung (fl)  94-95 
In Yorkshire I wur born and bred (fl)  95-96 
Matchless is the girl I love (fl)  96-97 
When bidden to the wake or fair (fl)  97 
Simple country milkmaid, I came to town to hire, A (fl)  98-99 
'And where are you going,' he said'pretty maid?' (fl)  99-100 
Will cheerly was a sailor bold (fl)  100-101 
There was a gay man-milliner, his name was Timmy Twist (fl)  101-102 
When first I was married to Katty O'Connor (fl)  103-104 
Deep in a vale a cottage stood (fl)  104-105 
Luck in life, or good or bad (fl)  105-106 
When Johnny Gubbins courted me, no girl so pleas'd as I (fl)  106 
Oh! hie thee, Fitz-Allan, hie, hie thee away (fl)  107 
Sir Jerry Go-Nimble was lame of a leg (fl)  108-109 
She sang of past joys, did the maiden of Erin (fl)  109-110 
Maiden lov'd a sailor, his name was fickle Will (fl)  111-112 
Love is a little darling boy (fl)  112 
Little boy, a Savoyard, A (fl)  112-113 
O say, what is that thing call'd light (fl)  113-114 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  114-115 
What are the joys of white man here? (fl)  115-116 
One night the north wind loud did blow (fl)  116-117 
In our cottage that peeps from the skirts of the wood (fl)  117-118 
Did you ne'er hear a tale, how a youth in the vale (fl)  118-119 
Mrs. Bridget lov'd a man, yet all cruel was he (fl)  119-120 
When to my pretty Poll I went (fl)  120-122 
Oh! ye lads and ye laddesses gay (fl)  122-123 
Comfort, damsel, why that sigh? (fl)  124 
Come bustle, neighbor Prig (fl)  124-126 
'Twas on the beach, as sailors tell (fl)  126-127 
O Lord! what a terrible fright I am in! (fl)  127 
You may talk of sweet passion, and wishing, and wooing (fl)  128-129 
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  129-130 
Young Roger is a bonny lad (fl)  130-131 
Said a pot of strong beer (fl)  131-132 
Sun of affluence gaily smil'd, The (fl)  132-133 
One negro come from Guinea land (fl)  133-134 
There was an Irish lad (fl)  135-136 
Mister Po was a man of great riches and fame (fl)  136-137 
Sure a woman's to be pitied (fl)  137 
When Phoebus' rays no more appear (fl)  138 
Baron Donder-Dronk-Dickdorf said, one summer's day (fl)  138-140 
To Mary's sad story, give ear, gentle stranger (fl)  140 
If my own botheration don't alter my plan (fl)  141-142 
Of all the girls both far and near (fl)  142-143 
Poor Gawkey Shanks here born and bred (fl)  143-145 
When Robin dress'd out in his holyday clothes (fl)  145 
At Cork liv'd Miss Molly O'rigge (fl)  146 
Beneath a tower a pilgrim stray'd (fl)  147 
Well, here am I to tell (fl)  147-148 
Mr. Spriggs the grocer married Miss Revel (fl)  149 
Cobler liv'd at York, A (fl)  150 
Mr. Fog he conducted a chandlers shop (fl)  150-151 
Four-and-twenty Barbers sat 'em down to dine (fl)  151-156 
In a Post-Office bred, what a life I sure led (fl)  156-158 
Kilkenny is a charming place, as any town in Shamrockshire (fl)  158-159 
What can woman poor thing do (fl)  159-160 
Chieftain to the highlands bound, cries "Baotman do not tarry!" (fl)  160-161 
Wreaths for the Chieftain we honor! who planted (fl)  161-162 
Come, none of your nonsense, I'm not to be had (fl)  163-164 
Sun had gone down o'er the lofty Benlomond, The (fl)  164-165 
'Tis the last rose of Summer left blooming alone (fl)  165-166 
My seventeenth year scarce over, blythe Damon a wooing came (fl)  166-167 
Ah! what is the bosom's commotion (fl)  168 
Wilt thou say farewell, love, and from Rosa part (fl)  168-169 
Claudine liv'd contented, and peace was her lot (fl)  169-170 
'Twas at the town of nate Clogheen (fl)  170-172 
What is love? why but a name (fl)  173 
Is there a heart that never lov'd (fl)  174 
When first I saw Flora, so sprightly and blooming (fl)  174-175 
Knight with a gay and gallant mien, A (fl)  175-176 
Tell me ye maidens, have you seen (fl)  176-177 
Returning from the fair one eve (fl)  177-178 
When I was a pert little Miss in my teens (fl)  178-179 
To Liberty's enraptur'd sight (fl)  179-180 
In April when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  180-181 
Oh! slumber my darling (fl)  181-182 
Coo and the crow to roost are gone, The (fl)  182-183 
I married a wife, who cares says I (fl)  183-184 
John tripp'd up stairs by night (fl)  185 
I'm a most singular Gem'man (fl)  185-186 
My father was once a great Marchant (fl)  186-188 
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In April, when primroses paint the plain (fl)  14-15. App. 
Sad beats the drum upon my aching heart (fl)  16. App. 
Oh slumber my darling, thy sire is a knight (fl)  17. App. 
Young Roger is a bonny lad (fl)  18. App. 
Wilt thou say farewell love, and from Rosa part? (fl)  19. App. 
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