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Posted By: Artful Codger
24-Feb-09 - 12:28 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: 19th Century Songbooks
Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: 19th Century Songbooks
A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect [...with] Songs Sung by the Peasantry [texts only]
By W. H. Long. Reeves & Turner, London/G.A. Brannon & Co, Isle of Wight, 1886.
At Google Books
[Page Title - First line]
125 Abroad as I Was Walking - ... / Down by a river side
126 The Maiden's Complaint - I walked abroad one morning
127 The Banks of the Sweet Primroses - As I walked out one Midsummer morning
127 The Spotted Cow - One morning in the month of May
128 Cupid's Garden - 'Twas down in Cupid's Garden
129 The Gardener's Choice [= The Seeds of Love] - It was in the Merry Month of May
130 Roger and Dolly - Once down in our village lived a parson and his wife
131 Richard of Taunton Dean - Last New Year's Day, as I've heard say
132 Cis and Harry - The clock had struck, but I can't tell ye what
133 The Old Man Clothed in Leather [cf. Misty, Moisty Morning] - 'Twas on a misty morning
134 The Banks of the Sweet Dundee - It's of a farmer's daughter, so beautiful I'm told
135 I'm in Haste - As 'cross the fields the other morn
136 The Dark-Eyed Sailor - It's of a handsome young lady fair
137 The Sailor's Return - 'Twas on a wintry evening, the weather it was wet
138 The Pretty Ploughboy - It's of a pretty ploughboy who was driving his team
139 The Lost Sailor [= London Merchant] - 'Tis of an old miser who in London did dwell
139 The British Man of War - 'Twas down in yonder meadows I carelessly did stray
140 Polly Oliver - One night as Polly Oliver lay dozing in bed
141 The Rambling Sailor - I am a sailor stout and bold
142 The Mermaid - 'Twas a Friday morning when we set sail
142 The Loss of the Ramilies - You soldiers and sailors, draw near and attend
143 The Death of General Wolfe - Brave General Wolfe, to his men said he
144 Paul Jones, the Pirate - A spanking fine frigate, the Richard by name
145 The Lowlands Low - Our ship she was called the Golden Vanitee
146 The Honest Thresherman - There was an old thresherman
147 The Jolly Waggoner - When first I went a waggoning
148 The Farmer's Boy - The sun had set beyond yon hills
149 The Barley Mow Song - We'll drink out of the nipperkin, boys
150 The Song of Sixpence - I had a sixpence, oh my jolly sixpence
151 My Boy Billy - Where have you been all the day / My boy Billy?
152 What Is Your One O? - ... / When the one is left alone
153 Nicholas Wood - Oh when shall we be married
155 While Joan's Ale Was New - There were some jovial fellows
157 Jolly Fellows [= Merry Fellows] - Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl
158 Dick Turpin, or Turpin Hero - As Turpin was riding across the moor
159 The Jolly Butchers - It is of two jolly butchers
160 The Carrion Crow - The old carrion crow he sat upon an oak
162 The Fox - The fox jumped up one cold winter's night
162 Moss the Miller, and His Mare - Moss was a miller, and one day to market went
163 The Crockery Ware - In London town once dwelt a spark
164 The Breeches - Will's wife used often to declare
165 Wearing the Breeches - Come all young men--I pray you draw near
166 The Bonny Bunch of Roses O - I walked abroad one morning