Bibliography - Songs for Gentlemen, 1820

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Short Title Songs for Gentlemen, 1820 
Title Songs for Gentlemen 
Pages 156 
Publisher Babcock, John, & Son, and Babcock, S. & W. R. 
Location RPB MF FH B6 03085.6 
Date 1820 
Place New-Haven & Charleston 
Data Place RPB MF FH B6 03085.6 
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O'er Huron's wave the sun was low (fl)  1-3  14 
Goddess of freedom borne down by oppression, The (fl)  3-4 
When the thunder of Britain assaulted our shore (fl)  5-6 
When rolling orbs from chaos sprung (fl)  6-7 
Hail to the heroes whose triumph has brightened (fl)  7-8 
To the court of old Neptune the God of the sea (fl)  8-10 
Come each gallant lad who for pleasure quits care (fl)  10-11 
Why Molly, my girl, do you whimper and sob (fl)  11-13 
Maiden sure there was, and she was ugly, old, and tough, A (fl)  13-14 
There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  15-16 
In bumpers pledge high to Columbia's proud toast (fl)  16-17 
Qh! say can you see by the dawn's early light (fl)  17-19 
Columbia's gallant streamers (fl)  19-21 
O! have you not heard of a story (fl)  21-24 
Landlady of France, she lov'd an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  24-25 
Adown a green meadow there liv'd an old maid (fl)  25-26 
There was a gay man-milliner, his name was Tommy Twist (fl)  26-28 
You've heard of Nykey Numskull of Yorkshire, I'll be sworn (fl)  28-30  11 
When first we hear the boatswain's bray (fl)  30-31 
Land of my father's: Freedom's field (fl)  31-32 
Oh! the days when I was young (fl)  32-33 
In a chariot of light from the regions of day (fl)  33-34 
At Mecca, where Mahamet swings in the air (fl)  34-36 
There was a merry widow, and she was very fat (fl)  36-37 
There were two Tom cats on a wall (fl)  37-38 
Savage loves his native shore, The (fl)  38-39 
In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining (fl)  40-41 
Four-and-twenty Barbers sat 'em down to dine (fl)  41-45 
Miss Wigley her lovers called first of the fair (fl)  45-47 
'Twas Pat of Londonderry that lov'd fair Dublin's Kate (fl)  47-48 
Banish sorrow, grief is folly (fl)  48-49 
To a village that skirted the sea (fl)  49-51 
William and Jonathan came to town together (fl)  51-52 
Term full as long as the siege of old Troy, A (fl)  52-53 
How blest the life a sailor leads (fl)  53-54 
Ye sons of Hibernia, who snug on dry land (fl)  54-55  12 
Life's like a ship in constant motion (fl)  58-59 
Why should we at our lots repine (fl)  59-61 
Little old woman was taken ill, A (fl)  61-62 
Come all hands, ahoy to the anchor (fl)  62-64 
Come, now, all ye social powers (fl)  64-65 
I was the boy for bewitching 'em (fl)  65-66 
Luck in life, or good or bad (fl)  66-67 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer! (fl)  67-70 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling (fl)  70-71 
When the anchor's weigh'd, and the ship's unmoor'd (fl)  71-72 
Diogenes, surly and proud (fl)  72-74 
John tripp'd up the stairs by night (fl)  74-75 
For ever remember'd be the gallant story (fl)  75-76 
Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl, A (fl)  76-77 
'Twas at the town of nate Clogheen (fl)  78-80 
Well, here I am to tell (fl)  80-81 
When first Infant Liberty dropt upon earth (fl)  82 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  82-83 
Come lads, life's a whirligig (fl)  83-84 
Of friendship they talk,---is a friend to be found? (fl)  84-85 
Miss Margery Muggins she was a fair maid (fl)  85-86 
Backside Albany tan Lake Champlain (fl)  86-88 
Says Sammy, the Tailor, to me (fl)  88-89 
Waves of old Ocean's the field of the brave, The (fl)  89-90 
Life let us cherish, while the taper glows (fl)  90-91 
Mr. Orator Puff had two tones in his voice (fl)  91-92 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  92-93 
No more of your blathering nonsense (fl)  93-95 
O you, whose lives on land are pass'd (fl)  95 
My darling, says Pat, to his spouse on his lap (fl)  96-97 
What's all the world to me (fl)  97-98 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  98-99 
Potatoes grow at Limerick and Beef at Ballymore (fl)  99-101 
O, think on my fate! once I credit enjoy'd (fl)  101-102 
Whether sailor or not, for a moment avast (fl)  102-103 
You've heard of a frog in an opera hat (fl)  103-104 
How stands the glass around? (fl)  104-105 
Hail Columbia! happy Land! (fl)  105-107 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The (fl)  107-108  10 
Hail! to the chief, who in triumph advances (fl)  108-110 
Hail to our Chief! now he's wet through with whiskey (fl)  110-111 
On Linden, when the sun was low (fl)  111-112 
Hallow'd the birth day of liberty's nation (fl)  112-113 
Is there for honest poverty (fl)  113-114 
O'er the mountains the sun of our fame was declining (fl)  115-116 
Plague of those musty old lubbers, A (fl)  116-117 
Fair face of morning when sudden clouds cover, The (fl)  117-118 
Now we are free of college rules (fl)  118-120 
Of Nelson and the north (fl)  120-123 
When lightnings pierce the pitchy sky (fl)  123-124 
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled (fl)  124-125 
Come, strike the bold anthem, the war-dogs are howling (fl)  125-126 
Oh, whack! Cupid's a mannikin (fl)  126-127 
Poor negro say one thing you take no offence (fl)  127-128 
When first a little smouchy, no higher than as that (fl)  128-130 
To Liberty's enraptur'd sight (fl)  130-131 
Since you call for a song (fl)  131-133 
I am lately return'd from the ocean (fl)  134-136 
When first the sun o'er ocean glow'd (fl)  136-138 
Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought (fl)  138-141 
Sir Jerry Go-Nimble was lame of a leg (fl)  141-142 
Cobler liv'd in York, and a merry man was he, A (fl)  142-144 
Oh! nothing in life can sadden us (fl)  144-146 
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note (fl)  146-147 
There lives a lassie on the brae (fl)  147-149  12 
When Adam was stationed in Eden's fair bower (fl)  149-151 
And did you ne'er hear of an Irish hay-maker (fl)  151-152 
When I was at home with my father and mother (fl)  153 
Our bugles sung truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd (fl)  154 
Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder (fl)  155 
In storms when clouds obscure the sky (fl)  156 
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