Here's my transcription from the sheet music. (Thanks to our last guest for the link.)


HER FRONT NAME IS "HANNAR"
Words by Barry Carter; music by John A. Armstrong
"Comic song as sung by Hughey Dougherty, Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels"
Philadelphia: J. E. Ditson & Co., ©1877.

1. The heart in my bosom has lately been stol'd
By a sweet blushing maiden just forty years old.
She's a half Irish blonde and she likes pork and beans.
Her feet are a feature; she wears seventeens.

CHORUS: Her front name is Hannar.
Her father's a tanner,
But him she does hammer
In an artistic manner.
She sings "Star-Spangled Banner"
And "Aileen Alanner."
With a toothbrush I fan her
When she thumps the pianner.

2. Her "more antique pull-back" cost six cents a yard;
Sacque hat, gloves and parasol, forty-six cents.
She shall be a lady like Bridget O'Grady,
For I've wealth to get and don't mind the expense.

3. Her mouth, well, it stretches from ear to ear.
A better provision store never was found.
I've never kissed her; I'm afraid to go near.
I'd surely fall in, then I know I'd be drowned.