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Elton's Out-and-outer comic songster.
- Title
- Elton's Out-and-outer comic songster.
- Publication
- New York : [Robert H. Elton], [1839]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Elton, Robert H.
- Description
- 140 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 14 cm
- Alternative Title
- Out-and-outer comic songster
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Songsters.
- Song texts.
- Humorous songs.
- Note
- Song texts; without music.
- Listing of contents on 3 unnumbered pages following page 140.
- Lithographed cover illustration, in color.
- Contents
- Coal Black Rose [Lubly Rosa Sambo come] -- Adventures of Major Longbow [I'm a general 'tis well known] -- The assembly ball [An assembly ball, delight of all] -- Manager Strut -- The Yankee militia muster [Come militia men so gay] -- Shee's eyes [Says Hodge one day to his son Ned] -- Saint Patrick was a gentleman -- Geoffry's courtship [One morn whilst I was brewing] -- Thinks I to myself, thinks I -- Miss Deborah Diddle and Sir Gilbert Go-Softly [You may talk of sweet passion] -- Quite politely [When first in Lunnun I arrived] -- The land of potatoes O [On had I in the clear, five hundred a year] -- Cherry-cheek Patty [Down in yon village I live so snug] -- The country club [Now we're all here together] -- The exciseman [To a village that skirted the sea] -- Mrs. Flinn, and the bold dragoon [There was an ancient fair] -- Oh! My deary [Adown a green valley there liv'd an old maid] -- Miss Patty Puff [There was a gay man milliner] -- Pretty Sally Solomons [Through every place I rove] -- Here's a lover, ha , ha, ha [Ah! Demme madam how d'ye do] -- Why are you wandering here, I pray? -- York, you're wanted [From York I com'd up to get a place] -- Dame Durden kept five servant girls -- Billy, let's thank providence that you and I are sailors [One night came on a hurricane] -- The Irish wedding [Sure won't you hear what roaring cheer] -- Trotting along the road [Gaffer Grist, gaffer's son, and his little jackass] -- Pat and the priest [Pat fell sick on a time, and he sent for the priest] -- The quizzical, comical family [My father and Humphrey Hum were like brothers] -- Looney Mactwolter [Oh, whack! Cupid's mannikin] -- Murphy Delaney [It was Murphy Delaney so funny and frisky] -- A traveller stopped [A traveller stopped at a widow's gate] -- I was the boy for bewitching them -- Sorrow's a snivelling boy -- The flash in the pan is gone off [The pretty miss Pan and the brave Captain Flash] -- Giovanni's address to his opposing creditors [Duns that gave Giovanni trust] -- The Boston post-office [Oh, what a town the Bostonians have to talk about] -- Betsy Baker [From noise and bustle far away] -- The miseries of Saturday [There is no peace about the house] -- The washing day [The sky with clouds was overcast] -- Bubbles [These days are the time to make a great splash] -- Humming all the trade is [With a merry tale] -- The confessions of a Charley [I am a poor Charley, I roar out the hour] -- Doctor Monroe [Dear doctor be clever, and fling off your beaver] -- Oh! Katty now can't you be easy [Sweet Katty O'Lynch lived at Ballanahinch] -- Conjugal comfort [Dear John prythee tell me, cried Ruth] -- What is a woman like? [A woman is like to, but stay] -- Mr. Orator Puff had two tones in his voice -- Llewellen went to Winny's cot -- In England yon see folks of every degree -- Ireland's the nation of Shelle-Lagh-Law [Och! Ireland's the place] -- Musha Grah, what will become of me? ['Twas yesterday noon at dark] -- He who matches a lawyer has only one more [A lawyer quite famous for making a bill] -- Toe tum ti [Yes, I fell in the pit of love] -- The king and the west-countryman [There was an old chap in the west country] -- Clutterbuck and Higginbottom [In Chester's town a man there dwelt] -- The mail coach [Come listen to my story] -- Chit chat [Pretty little damsels how they chat] -- A peep into the green-room [Efekens, I'm come mun, I slipt on so sly] -- The little voman [There was a little voman as I heard tell] -- Miss Grizzle [One morning in May as I heard the folks say] -- Sandy and Jenny [Come, come, bonnie lassie, cried Sandy, awa'] -- Mistress Goose [Mister Goose was a man of great riches and fame] -- A peep at Turkey [I peep'd in the grand seraglio] -- Nothing like grog [A plague of these musty old lubbers] -- The end of a song [Lawyers pay you with words] -- Doll of Wapping ['Twas at Stepney church I was spliced to Doll] -- Family likeness [Lovely woman, pride of nature] -- Sweethearts and wives [Brother messmates come let us be jolly] -- The old commodore [Ods blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk] -- Robinson Crusoe [When I was a lad I had cause to be sad] -- Call again tomorrow [I'll to court among the nobility] -- The fishey duel [A crab there was, a dashing young blade] -- Bartlemy fair [Come bustle neighbour prig] -- Miss Muffin and Corporal Butter [Miss Margaret Muffin was crummy and fat] -- The showman [Walk up now, each lady and gent] -- There lived as I've heard say -- At a village in Kent, as I have heard tell -- It's pleasures height -- Adventures of a steam boat [Oh, what a row, what a rumpus, and a rioting] -- Mr. and Mrs. Pringle [An obstinate man had a scold for his wife] -- Cobbler and goose [A cobbler liv'd at York] -- The fashionable beau, or, New-York dandy [If in New-York you would live] -- Fashions of New-York [O say shall I state all the fashions of late] -- The life of an actor [When first a lively boy] -- The Jew broker [Ye jobbers, underwriters] -- The ladies darling [O my father he lived in Limerick town] -- My wisdom's in my wigs [Yes love with fame must share its throne] -- Let the toast pass [Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen] -- Giles Scroggins -- There's something in kissing, I cannot tell why -- Judy leads me such a life -- The honey moon [Would you know my good friends what the honey moon is] -- Oh cruel were my parents as tore my love from me -- Sir Jerry Go Nimble was lame of a leg -- Prime bang up [With spirits gay I mount the box] -- Lovers, black, white, and brown [When living with my mam and dad].
- Call Number
- Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Elton's out-and-outer comic songster)
- OCLC
- 1141016560
- 1141016560
- Title
- Elton's Out-and-outer comic songster.
- Publisher
- New York : [Robert H. Elton], [1839]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- NYPL copy lacking pages 69-72, 107-112, 131-132, and 135-136.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Elton, Robert H., printer.
- Research Call Number
- Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Elton's out-and-outer comic songster)