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Thread #62852   Message #1017275
Posted By: masato sakurai
11-Sep-03 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Patchwork Song (1860s Pop)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FATHER OF ALL SONGS
Another song with song titles in the lyrics, also at American Memory.

THE FATHER OF ALL SONGS.
Composed by Wm. DUNNE, and sold at the Stationary-Store, 223 Ninth Avenue.
Air: The Glorious Sixty-Ninth.

And come all, you lads and lasses, wherever you may be;
I pray you'll pay attention and listen unto me:
I pray you'll pay attention, and I wont detain you long;
For, the song I'm going to sing you, is the Father of all songs.

There is "the Irishman's shanty" where once lived "Paddy Miles,"
Along with "Annie Laurie," in the days of "Auld Lang Syne;"
"Teddy Regan" drank to Winnie, in a glass of "Lager-bier,"
And they all rode out together, in an "Irish jaunting car."

Oh! "the Harp that once thro' Tara's Halls," and "Irish Molly O,"
Was played at "Paddy's wedding," about "Twenty years ago.
"O'Riley, the fisherman," a sailing, "round the Horn,"
And drank some "Bully Lager-bier," on "Patrick's day in the morning."

"When this Cruel war is over," the "Irish Hussar"
Will wax old "Johnny Bull" again, on "a Yankee Man-of-war;"
And "Corcoran's Irish Legion" will make the Rebels shout:
"How are you, Jefferson Davis?" Does your mother knows you're out?"

But "There is a good time coming," when our glorious "Little Mac"
Will take the reins into his hands, and give Old Abe the sack;
He'll take hold of North and South, and join them both in one.
Then hurrah for "the Four-and-Thirty Stars!" and "the Father of all songs!"

H. DE MARSAN, Publisher, 54 Chatham Street, New-York.