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Posted By: Jim Dixon
19-Dec-08 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: 19th Century Songbooks
Subject: Index: Songs of Britain (Kidson & Shaw, 1913)
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Songs of Britain
A Collection of One Hundred English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish National Songs
selected and edited by Frank Kidson and Martin Shaw
the Tunes Newly Arranged with Accompaniments for Pianoforte by Martin Shaw.
(New York: Boosey & Co., 1913)

INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

A Frog he would a-wooing go - 72
Adieu, my loved harp - 172
Admiral Benbow - 60
Agincourt Song - 6
Although his back be at the wa' - 118
All in a garden green - 42
Among our ancient mountains - 198
Arrah, darling, my heart you're alarming - 186
As beautiful Kitty - 182
As I was a-driving my waggon - 70
As I was a-walking one morning in May - 168
As Mars and Minerva - 88
Barbara Allan - 126
Blackbird, The - 154
Blind Harper, The - 100
Bonnie Brier Bush, The - 138
Braes o' Balquhidder, The - 136
Broom of Cowdenknowes, The - 40
By this fountain's flow'ry side - 174
Chapter of Kings, The - 164
Chirk Castle - 114
Come o'er the sea - 192
Come o'er the stream, Charlie - 160
Dear Harp of Erin - 191
Dimpled Cheek, The - 92
Elfin Fairies, The - 184
Emigrant, The - 166
Ere around the huge Oak - 80
Far, far from my country - 170
Farewell to Glen Shalloch - 140
Fine old English Gentleman, The - 66
Flowers of the heath, The - 116
Fortune, my foe - 14
From Valley and Wood - 74
Gee ho, Dobbin - 70
General Monk's March - 102
Girl I left behind me, The - 86
God bless the Prince of Wales - 198
God save the King - 200
Good morrow, Gossip Joan - 62
Gossip Joan - 62
Great Caesar - 76
Great Meat Pie, The - 46
Green Bushes, The - 168
Here's his health in water - 118
I'd be a butterfly - 90
I have house and land in Kent - 44
I live not where I love - 56
I'll sing you a good old song - 66
I'm lonesome since I cross'd the hill - 86
I'm wearin' awa', Jean - 130
In days of ancient story - 114
In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood - 20
Inspired Bard, The - 108
In yon garden - 41
It was a blind beggar - 28
It was a' for our rightfu' King - 152
It was in and about the Mart'mas Time - 126
I've coasted round old England - 58
I've no sheep on the mountains - 106
Jenny Jones - 94
Jenny's Mantle - 98
John Anderson, my Jo - 57
Jolly Ploughboy, The - 82
Jolly Waggoner, The - 68
Kate, the Primrose-Girl - 74
Kitty of Coleraine - 182
Land o' the Leal, The - 130
Legend of Sir Guy of Warwick, The - 30
Let gay ones and great - 78
Lewie Gordon - 162
Logie o' Buchan - 146
Loosen your sword - 102
Lord Willoughby - 34
Loth to depart - 100
Love me little, love me long - 49
Lovesick Frog, The - 72
Maid of Llanwellyn, The - 106
Mary Ambree - 36
Megan's Daughter - 104
Molly, my dear - 176
My bonny cuckoo - 195
My dog and my gun - 78
My little pretty one - 9
My name's Edward Morgan - 94
Nature's holiday - 174
Near Woodstock Town - 26
Now bar the door - 108
Oft in the stilly night - 150
Oh! we sail'd to Virginia - 60
Oh, where's the slave - 180
Oh while I live I'll ne'er forget - 166
Old Farmer's Song, The - 188
O Logie o' Buchan - 146
O Mistress mine - 8
Once on a morning of sweet recreation - 154
O send Lewie Gordon hame - 162
O the Broom, the bonny, bonny Broom - 40
O there's mony a gate - 84
Our King went forth to Normandy - 6
O waly, waly - 124
O whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad - 134
Oxfordshire Tragedy, The - 26
Peaceful flows the winding river - 56
Peaceful slumb'ring on the ocean - 79
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu - 142
Portsmouth - 58
Pretty Bessie - 28
Pretty girl milking her cow, The - 186
Rich and rare were the gems she wore - 178
Robin Hood - 20
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne - 24
Row dow dow; or The Drum - 76
Sere form of frail beauty - 96
Shepherd's absence, The - 110
Sir Eglamore - 32
Sumer is icumen in - 2
Sweet Kate - 16
Sweetheart Gate, The - 84
The Daughter of Megan - 104
The fifteenth day of July - 34
The harvest is o'er - 176
The Laird o' Cockpen - 144
The news frae Moidart - 158
The Romans in England - 164
The Sun rises bright in France - 120
The sweet rosy morning - 64
The Violet and the Primrose too - 116
There grows a bonny brier bush - 138
There was a brisk young ploughboy - 82
Thou canst not hit it, my good man - 48
Though better minstrels far than I - 100
Tho' the last glimpse of Erin - 196
Though your strangeness frets my heart - 18
To all you ladies now at land - 54
To carry the milking-pail - 50
Under the rose - 88
Was ever knight for lady's sake - 30
We fairy elves in mossy dells - 184
Wha'll be King but Charlie - 158
What Booker doth prognosticate - 52
What have I done that my Mary should fly me - 92
When bidden to the wake or fair - 132
When captains courageous - 36
When Daphne did from Phoebus fly - 10
When first I went a-waggoning - 68
When shaws are sheen - 24
When the King shall enjoy his own again - 52
When Winter's fairly left the land - 188
Where is my Owen? - 110
While history's muse - 122
Will ye go, Lassie, go to the Braes o' Balquhidder - 136
Will ye go to Sheriffmuir - 156
Will you come out to gather the freshly blown roses - 98
Wilt thou be my dearie? - 148
Withered Leaf, The - 96
With my flock as walked I - 12
Ye nymphs and sylvan gods - 50
You've heard of the wondrous crocodile - 46