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Thread #125526   Message #2786351
Posted By: Steve Gardham
11-Dec-09 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: Songs about or from Bolton
Subject: RE: Songs about or from Bolton
Among my sheet music is 'The Same Old Game' written by JBG and the litho on the front is of Sam Torr in character.
An American folk song book describes him as an 'American Comedian' so did he emigrate at some point?
Here's a list of what I've found by JBG, mostly just titles I'm afraid but a lot are on broadsides.

Benjamin and Maria or The Sheffield Hoax
Better late than never
Brigham Young
Black Diamond
Bread and Cheese and Ale
Cockles and Mussels (Not the famous one),1876 (got this one)
Down in a Coal Mine, 1872 (got p-copy)
England is England still, 1886
The Fox and the Hare (They all have a Mate but me)
The Frenchman, 1878
Glossop Road (BS copy in Sheffield Univ.)
A Hundred Years Ago
It's a Way we have in the Army
It's really a dreadful affair
I am a merry little man
John Barleycorn is a Hero Bold (got)
Johnny I hardly knew you
The Lancashire Witches
Lines on the Flood
Marigold
The Merriest Man in the Company
The Men of Merry England
A Message from the Sea
Napoleon talks of war boys ( I can hardly believe this one)
Old Adam was Father of all (Sung by Sam Torr)
Pat works on the Railway, 1854
Queen of Merry England
Rock the Cradle John
Roger Ruff or a Drop of Good Beer, 1860
The Same Old Game (got)
Sons of Old John Bull
Ten Thousand Miles Away (got)
The Toilers of the Sea
The Waggoner
Wasn't she a Beauty

Most of these are either off the backs of other sheets or from Kilgarriff.