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Posted By: masato sakurai
09-Oct-02 - 09:00 AM
Thread Name: Help: Origin of Villikins&Dinah tune
Subject: RE: Help: Origin of Villikins&Dinah tune
Other songs to the tune of "Villikins and his Dinah" from the Bodleian Library collection:

Printer: De Marsan, H. (New York, N.Y.) Date: c.1860 Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 60 Chatham St. N.Y. Printer's Series: (3). Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1 Note: Border: Ship. Coloured. Copies: Harding B 18(218) Ballads: 1. The great prize fight between Morrissey and Heenan, the Benicia boy, at Long Point, Canada, Oct. 20, 1858 ("Ye merry gay sportsmen, wherever you be ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah Subject: Prizefighting; Heenan, John C.

Printer: Pratt, W. (Birmingham) Date: c.1850 Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham. Printer's Series: (437). Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2 Copies: Johnson Ballads 1449 Ballads: 1. Nicholas and his rhino ("'Tis of a rich tyrant who in Russia did dwell ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah Subject: Crimean War, 1853-1856; Nicholas, I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855 2. King Canute ("In the merry old times of our ancestors ...")

Printer: The Poet's box (Glasgow) Date: 1870 Imprint: ... the Poet's Box ... Saturday, June 4, 1870. Ballads on sheet: 1 Note: Imprint defaced Copies: 2806 c.11(233) Ballads: 1. The back-door commission; or, The fiat against publicans and publichouses ("Shut the back-doors, lads, but first let us in ...") To the tune of: Villikins and Dinah Subject: Local government; Edinburgh (Scotland) Note: Slip

Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.]) Date: 1855 Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1 Copies: Harding B 18(750) Ballads: 1. Nedward and his Fanny ("It's of a young clothier I'm going for to tell ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah.

Printer: Pratt, W. (Birmingham) Date: c.1850 Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham. Printer's Series: (430). Ballads on sheet: 2 Copies: Harding B 13(178) Ballads: 1. Albert, Victoria, and Napier ("As Victoria and Albert together did stray ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah Subject: Crimean War, 1853-1856; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861; Napier, Charles, Sir, 1786-1860 2. Obadiah the fighting Quaker ("My name's Obadiah, a Quaker I am ...") Subject: French invasion scares

Printer: Andrews, J. (New York, N.Y.) Date: c.1860 Imprint: Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St. N.Y. Ballads on sheet: 1 Copies: Harding B 18(323) Ballads: 1. John Dean and his own Mary Ann. Or, the gallant young coachman and the cruel father ("Oh listen to me while a story I tell ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah.

Printer: Moore, J. (Belfast) Date: between 1846 and 1852 Imprint: Printed and sold, by J. Moore, 1, Castle cour[t] Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1 Copies: Harding B 26(662) Ballads: 1. Villikins & his Dinah ("It's of a rich merchant in London did vell [sic] ...") Subject: Merchants; Cruel parents; Suicide Note: Slip

Printer: The Poet's box (Glasgow) Date: 1856 Imprint: Saturday, June 21, 1856 Ballads on sheet: 1 Copies: Firth c.22(79) Ballads: 1. Teetotal Sam ("Two jolly old fellows, some four months ago ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah Subject: Temperance; Drunkenness Note: Slip

Printer: Marks, J. (London) Date: c.1855 Imprint: Marks, Printer, 206, Brick Lane, Spitalfields Ballads on sheet: 3 Copies: Harding B 11(3694) Ballads: 1. The Sunday trading riot ("Oh, my friends have you heard of this terrible job ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah Subject: Sunday 2. Ben Bolt ("Oh don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt ...") 3. Shells of the ocean ("One summer eve with pensive thought ...")

Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.]) Date: [s.a.] Printer's Series: (9). Ballads on sheet: 2 Copies: 2806 c.15(275) Ballads: 1. The rigs of the feeing fair ("This morning I got early up ...") Subject: Fairs 2. Susy and Pat Murphy ("Och, it's of a rich farmer in Limerick did dwell ...") To the tune of: Villikins and his Dinah.