starting out as 'popular music' Just off the top of my head, lots more. Sweet Nightingale, from the theatre Dame Durden, glee clubs Jim the Carter Lad, Music Hall Villikins and his Dinah, theatre, burlesque Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold, John Morgan, ballad writer The Rambling Soldier, John Morgan Pretty Caroline, George Brown, ballad writer Flora, the Lily of the West, George Brown The Constant Farmer's Son, George Brown Bonny Bunch of Roses, George Brown Dark-ey'd Sailor, George Brown The Cruel Lowland Maid, George Brown The Distressed Virgin, Martin Parker (17thc) The Cooper of Norfolk " John Appleby, " O dear O " A True Tale of Robin Hood " The Wooing maid " Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Thomas Deloney (17thc) Down in the Meadows, Thomas Wise (18thc) The Keeper, Joseph Martin, (17thc) The Ploughboy's Dream, William Mason, My True Love I've Lost, Lawrence Price (17thc) The Famous Flower of Serving Men, " The demon Lover " The Merry haymakers, " Johnny Armstrong, Thomas Robins (17thc) Robin Hood and the Beggar " Serving man and Husbandman, Richard Climsell, (17thc) Baffled Knight " Gosport Tragedy " No Sir No " Nightingales Sing/Bold Grenadier) " But of course the vast majority are anon. A ggod book for which Music Hall songs were found in oral tradition is 'Songs Sung in Suffolk' by John Howson of the Veteran albums label.
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