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Thread #51212   Message #2906134
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
13-May-10 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs by Harry Clifton (1832-1872)
Subject: RE: Help: Harry Clifton Songwriter
For reasons of space - and my sanity - where there is simply the announcement of a new song, I will just give the title and date. If there is anything unusual/interesting I will quote the extract in full:

'The Railway Belle'
'Michaelmas Day'
'Where there's a will there's a way'
'Orpheus in the Music Halls' Feb 11 1866

"Mr.Harry Clifton's comic Songs and Ballads for 1866, sung at his popular concerts in Great Britain and Ireland:-

'Waiting for thee' sung by Miss F.Edwards
'The younger son' sung by Mr Harry Clifton
'Meet me by sunset' sung by Mr A Bremner
'My old wife' sung by Mr Harry Clifton
'Up a tree' sung by Mr Harry Clifton
'Send back my Barney' sung by Miss F.Edwards
'The bridesmaid' sung by Miss F.Edwards
'Mr Double Stout' sung by Mr Harry Clifton
'Parting in anger' sung by Mr A Bremner
'Shabby genteel' sung by Mr Harry Clifton"

July 1 1866


'The will and the way'
'Motto for every man'
'Work, boys, work and be contented'
'Up with the lark in the morning' July 8 1866


"Mr Harry Clifton's Chorus Songs

'Up with the lark in the morning'
'The will and the way'
'Work, boys, work and be contented'
'The motto for every man'
'Paddle your own canoe'

Mr Harry Clifton's Popular Ballads and Serio-Comic Songs

Sung by Miss Fanny Edwards

'I'm waiting for thee'
'Meet me at sunset'
'The holly bush tree'
'He must have a thousand a year'
'The bridesmaid'
'Send back my Barney to me'
'Love and pride'

Mr Harry Clifton's Comic Songs

'The rattling mare'
'My old wife'
'Up a tree'
'Railway Belle'
'Michaelmas Day'
'Barclay's beer'
'Faithless Maria'
'Double stout'
'Shelling green peas'
'The mother-in-law'
'Paddle your own canoe'
'Good-tempered man'
'Calico printer's clerk'
'Waterford boys'
'The mail-train driver'
'Hardware line'
'The pull-back'
'Rocky road to Dublin'
'Weepin willer'
'Darby Maguire'
'On board of the Kangeroo'
'Mary Ann; or the roving gardener'
'Have you seen the ghost?'
'The commercial [?convivial] man'
'Isabella, the barber's daughter'
'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green'
'Poor old Mike'
'Water cresses'
'Lanigan's ball'
'Charity crow'
'Jemima Brown'"

1866

'Pulling hard against the stream' Feb 3 1867

'Bear it like a man' Mar 24 1867

'I'll go and enlist for a sailor' Apr 28 1867

'The family man'
'There's a smile waiting for me at home'
'The happy policeman'
'Where the grass grows green'
'I'm such an agreeable young man' Aug 4 1867

'I'm one of the olden time; or fifty years ago' Sep 29 1867

'The agreeable young man'
'The family man'
'I'm number one'
'Folly and fashion' Nov 3 1867

'What's a married man to do?' Mar 1 1868