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Thread #17054   Message #2745530
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
14-Oct-09 - 10:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Workhouse Boy
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Workhouse boy
For absolute completeness, here's the listing of songs in the Halliard booklet along with some I managed to omit the first time ;-]

LANCASHIRE LADS - Manchester Ref Lib
THE VICTORY - Ashton
BRITISH MAN OF WAR - unknown
BOLD NEVISON - not stated
COLLIER LASS - Harkness
JULIEN'S ORIGINAL POLKA - Ashton
BOYS OF BEDLAM - D'Urfey
DURHAM MILITIA - Henderson
THE DIGGINS O - Ashton
CLEVER TOM CLINCH - Jonathan Swift poem
BILL DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME - not stated
THE DESERTER - Henderson
ROBIN HOOD - Grimsby Library?
NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST - Shepard
BOLD CAPTAIN GRANT - Harkness
WITH WELLINGTON WE'LL GO - Ashton
TURPIN'S BONNIE BLACK BESS - Ashton
DEATH OF NESLON - Birmingham Lib (Ashton)
THE SUFFERING OF CHARLES ADOLPHUS KING - Manchester Ref Lib
RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW - either Harkness or Manchester Ref Lib
STOW BROW - unknown
MILES WEATHERHILL - Hindley (Henderson)
SAD LAMENTATION OF JOHN KINGTON - either Coventry or Birmingham Lib
CALICO PRINTER'S CLERK - Harkness
LADIES GO A-THIEVING - Henderson
GOING FOR A SOLDIER JENNY - Henderson
THE WORKHOUSE BOY - Birmingham Lib (Ashton)
A THOUSAND MILES AWAY - Birmingham Lib
THE LAST FAREWELL OF FROST, JONES AND WILLIAMS - unknown

KEY:


Ashton

Ashton, John, Modern Street Ballads (1888)


D'Urfey

D'Urfey, Thomas, Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698-1720)


Harkness

The Harkness Broadside Ballad Collection, Harris Library, Preston


Henderson

Henderson, W., Victorian Street Ballads (1937)


Hindley

Hindley, Charles, Curiosities of Street Literature (1871)


Shepard

Shepard, Leslie, The Broadside Ballad, A Study In Origins And Meaning (1962)