Bibliography - Songs for Gentlemen, 1818

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Short Title Songs for Gentlemen, 1818 
Title Songs for Gentlemen, Old and New 
Pages 124 
Publisher Babcock & Son, J. 
Location CtY, DLC, RPB/AoA 
Date 1818 
Place New Haven 
Data Place AoA S45761 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
When first the sun o'er ocean glowed (fl)  1-2 
When the thunder of Britain assaulted our shore (fl)  3-4 
Ye sons of Columbia who bravely have fought (fl)  4-8 
O'er Huron's wave the sun was low (fl)  8-10  14 
Hail to the heroes whose triumph has brightened (fl)  10-12 
Columbia's gallant streamers (fl)  12-14 
Come each gallant lad (fl)  10-11 
To the court of old Neptune the God of the sea (fl)  16-18 
In bumpers pledge high to Columbia's proud toast (fl)  18-19 
Land of my fathers: Freedom's field (fl)  19-20 
Landlady of France, she lov'd an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  21-22 
O! have you not heard of a story (fl)  22-25 
There was a merry widow, and she was very fat (fl)  25-26 
There were two Tom cats on a wall (fl)  26-27 
Gaily lads, our friends we're leaving (fl)  28-29  10 
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  29-31 
This world is a stage, where all men engage (fl)  31-32  10 
In a chariot of light from the regions of day (fl)  32-34 
Wealthy girl in beauty's bloom, A (fl)  34-36  12 
Of all that strive to live and thrive (fl)  36-37 
Dear Tom, this brown jug which now foams with mild ale (fl)  37-38 
Savage loves his native shore, The (fl)  38-39 
Traveller stopt at a widow's gate, A (fl)  39-40 
Miss Wigley her lovers called first of the fair (fl)  41-42 
William and Jonathan came to town together (fl)  42-44 
'Twas Pat of Londonderry (fl)  44-45 
To a village that skirted the sea (fl)  45-47 
Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl, A (fl)  47-48 
Little old woman was taken ill, A (fl)  49-50 
Tom Gobble was a grocer's son (fl)  50-51 
Miss Margery Muggins she was a fair maid (fl)  52-53 
Luck in life, or good or bad (fl)  53-54 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  54-55 
Well, here I am to tell (fl)  55-57 
'Twas at the town of nate Clogheen (fl)  57-60 
John tripp'd up stairs by night (fl)  60-61 
For ever remember'd be the gallant story (fl)  61-62 
Backside Albany 'tan Lake Champlain (fl)  62-63 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  64 
Waves of old Ocean's the field of the brave, The (fl)  65-66 
I'm a jolly Yankey tar (fl)  66-68 
Come loose every sail to the breeze (fl)  69 
Sam Splice'em d'ye mind, is one of those boys (fl)  69-71 
Of friendship they talk,---is a friend to be found (fl)  71-72 
'Twas autumn, and round me the leaves were descending (fl)  72-74 
Thimble's scolding wife lay dead (fl)  74-75 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  75-76 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  76-77 
O, think on my fate! once I credit enjoy'd (fl)  77-78 
I was, d'ye see, a waterman (fl)  78-80 
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled (fl)  80-81 
Tayloring wight Sam Scraggle was, A (fl)  81-85  16 
Dear Kathleen, you no doubt (fl)  85-86 
Scene was more beautiful far to my eye, The (fl)  86-87 
Sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond, The (fl)  87-88 
What's this dull town to me? (fl)  88-89 
Last week I took a wife (fl)  89-90 
I vonsh vash but a pedlar, and my shop vash in my box (fl)  90-93 
I sail'd from the Downs in the Nancy (fl)  93-94 
Whether a Sailor or not, for a moment avast (fl)  95 
O you, whose lives on land are pass'd (fl)  95-96 
Avast, honest Jack! now before you get mellow (fl)  96-100  16 
How stands the glass around? (fl)  100-101 
I am a brisk young lively lass (fl)  101-102 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling (fl)  103 
Now we are freed from college rules (fl)  104-106 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The (fl)  106-107  10 
Plague of those musty old lubbers, A (fl)  108-109 
Welcome, welcome, brother debtor (fl)  109110 
Poor negro say one thing you take no offence (fl)  111-112 
To thy green fields, sweet Erin, I've long bade adieu (fl)  112-113 
My Eva! see this op'ning rose (fl)  113   
When I was a boy in my father's mud edifice (fl)  114-115 
When first from Kilkenny as fresh as a daisy (fl)  115-116 
Oh, whack! Cupid's a mannikin (fl)  117 
It was Murphy Delany so funny and frisky (fl)  118-119 
I am lately return'd from the ocean (fl)  119-122 
When first I was married to Katy O'Connor (fl)  122-123 
As close to the sturdy sole (fl)  124 
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