Various

“ Like a fine old, &c.
But time, though sweet, is strong in flight, and years roll’d swiftly by,
And autumn’s falling leaf proclaim’d, the old man—he must die!
He laid him down right tranquilly, gave up life’s latest sigh,
And mournful friends stood round his couch, and tears bedim’d each eye.
For the fine old, &c.
The Fine Old Irish Gentleman.
I’ll sing you a dacent song that was made by a Paddy’s pate,
Of a raal ould Irish gintleman, who had a fine estate,
Whose mansion it was made of mud, with thatch and all complate,
With a hole at top, through which the smoke so graceful did ratrate. ”

“ I’d have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home;
All the world be at peace, or if kings must show their might,
Why let them who make the quarrels be the only men to fight.
Yes, let them, &c.
The Answer.
Cheer up! cheer up! my own Jeannette, though far away I go,
In all the changes I may see, I’ll be the same Jeannot;
And if I win both fame and gold, ah! be not so unkind,
To think I could forget you in the home I leave behind.
There’s not a lady in the land, and if she were a queen,
Could win my heart from you, Jeannette, so true as you have been ”

“ And each must do what others do—they dare not think of less.
Mrs. Grundy is the queen of all mankind to-day;
And each one thinks before she acts of—What will Grundy say?
Mr. Tompkins fail’d last fall, and is not worth a red,
But still he lives upon the “Fifth,” and still holds up his head.
They keep their carriage all the same, though not a dime they pay;
They can’t retrench a cent, for shame of—What would Grundy say?
There’s Mary Jane, she’s tall and slim, a sack of bonesshe’s grown,
And brown as any Gipsy girl, and awkward as a clown ”

“ Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
Invade the shrine where sacred lies, of toil and blood the well-earned prize.
While offering peace sincere and just, in heaven we place a manly trust,
That truth and justice will prevail, and every shame of bondage fail.
Firm, united, let us be, &c.
Sound, sound the trump of fame! let Washington’s great name
Ring through the world with loud applause,
Ring through the world with loud applause,
Let every clime to Freedom dear, listen with a joyful ear. ”

“ My wife she reads, or mends the coat of happy Hezekiah.
My wife and I we ne’er fall out, we love each other dearly,
And of affections ’tis a fact, a pledge is sent us yearly.
And what adds more unto the joy, which a parent should inspire,
The children are the image of their father, Hezekiah.
We four dear children now have got, and do expect another,
The boys myself I do bring up, the girls I leave to their mother.
Thus with the children and my wife, my own, my loved Sophia,
So pleasantly doth pass the life of happy Hezekiah.
[Pg 70]
The Girl I left behind Me. ”

“ I must away to my pirate band;
They restless sit, all side by side,
To hail thee, love, as the Pirate’s Bride.
Come, love, come, &c.
Though my voice is rough—oh! do not start,
For true and soft is the Pirate’s heart.
Thy home shall be on some fairy land,
And thou wilt be Queen of the Pirate’s band.
Come, love, come, &c.
Come, love, come—ah! why that stern brow—
She smiles, who so happy as the pirate now.
My arms will bear thee to “that thing of life,”
And this night thou must be the Pirate’s Wife.
[Pg 52]
The Old Oaken Bucket which Hung in the Well. ”

“ Hail Columbia.
Hail Columbia, happy land! hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band;
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
And when the storm of war was gone, enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast, ever mindful what it cost;
Ever grateful for the prize, let its altar reach the skies. CHORUS
Firm, united, let us be, rallying round our liberty ”

“ But, mind, &c.
Why, since the world began, the surest road to fame,
Has been the field where men unknown might win themselves a name.
And well I know the brightest eyes have all the brighter shone,
When looking at some warrior bold return’d from battles won.
And you’d put an end to deeds which ladies love so well,
And have no tales of valor left for history to tell;
The soldier’s is a noble trade, Jeannette, then rail no more,
Were only kings themselves to fight, there’d be an end to war.
Were only kings, &c.
[Pg 59]
Isle of Beauty. ”

“ The Shanghai fowls, how tall they grow, few days—few days,
That people can not hear them crow; I’m gwine home.
When guano’s put on gudgeon’s tails, few days—few days;
They grow to be as big as whales; I’m gwine home.
For I’ve got a home out yonder, &c.
There’s sin and folly everywhere, few days—few days;
Enough to make old Satan stare: I’m gwine home.
I’ll sing my parting song once more, few days—few days;
And then I’ll pass o’er Jordan’s shore; I’m gwine home.
For I’ve got a home out yonder, &c.
[Pg 42]
The Other Side of Jordan. ”

“ Annie Lisle, Beautiful World, Be Kind to the Loved Ones, Bobbin’ Around, Bonnie Dundee, Courting in Connecticut, Dearest Mae, Dear Mother, I’ll Come again, Ella Ree, Fairy Dell, Far, far upon the Sea, Gentle Hallie, Gentle Nettie Moore, Happy are we To-night, Hattie Lee, He Doeth All Things Well, I can not Call her Mother, I’ll Paddle my own Canoe, I’m Standing by thy Grave, Mother, Is it Anybody’s Business? ”

“ No man who owed another should ever pay a cent;
And he who dunn’d another should be banish’d far away,
For attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay.
[Pg 49]
The Boys of Kilkenny.
Oh, the boys of Kilkenny are brave roaring blades,
And if ever they meet with the nice little maids,
They’ll kiss them and coax them, and spend their money free,
Of all the towns in Ireland, Kilkenny for me.
In the town of Kilkenny there runs a clear strame,
In the town of Kilkenny there lives a pretty dame,
Her lips are like roses and her mouth much the same. ”

“ A twelvemonth scarce had pass’d away,
As it was told to me,
When Willie with a gladsome heart,
Came home again from sea.
He bounded up the craggy path.
And sought his cottage door,
But his poor wife and lovely child
Poor Willie saw no more.
“Forget me not, forget me not,”
The words rung in his ear;
He ask’d the neighbors one by one,
Each answer’d with a tear,
They pointed to the old churchyard,
And there his youthful bride,
With the pretty child he loved so well,
Were resting side by side.
[Pg 63]
Love Not. ”

“ Somebody’s Courting Somebody, Song of the Farmer, Song of Blanche Alpen, Sparking Sunday Night, Sprig of Shilleleh, Stand by the Flag, The Farmer’s Boy, The Hazel Dell, The Harp that once Through Tara’s Hall, The Indian Warrior’s Grave, The Little Low Room where I Courted my Wife, The Low Backed Car, The Old Brown Cot, The Old Kirk-Yard, The Railroad Engineer’s Song, They don’t wish Me at Home, Tom Brown, Terry O’Reilly, Uncle Gabriel, Uncle Tim the Toper, We were Boys and Girls together, We are Growing Old together, We are all so Fond of Kissing, Where are now the Hopes I Cherished? ”

“ Her skirts are thirty feet about, Oh, what will Grundy say?
There’s shanghai coats and bad cigars, and Musard’s new cravats;
There’s paper collars and wristbands, and bell-crown’d, small-brimm’d hats;
For comfort, ease, and common-sense, must yield to fashion’s sway;
For now the sole prevailing thought is, what will Grundy say?
[Pg 16]
Old Dog Tray.
No. 2.
The morning meal is past—the next is coming fast—
’Twill bring me a bill that I know I can not pay,
For meats, both fat and lean, that I was jolly green
To trust beside that old dog Tray. CHORUS
Old dog Tray! ”

“ So I pull’d off my coat, and roll’d up my sleeve,
Jordan’s a hard road to trabble;
So I pull’d of my coat and roll’d up my sleeve,
Jordan’s a hard road to trabble, I believe.
Around the Crystal Palace there are a great many shows,
Where all the country greenhorns are drawn in—
There are snakes and alligators, mammoth mules and big ’taters,
That were raised on the other side of Jordan.
The Sovereign of the Seas, she went to Liverpool,
In less than fourteen days, too, accordin’,
Johnny Bull he wiped his eyes, and looked with surprise,
At this clipper from the Yankee side of Jordan. ”

“ The children didn’t look in the face a bit like Jeremiah.
Oh, I’d been to work quite hard one day, when to my home returning,
I found my wife had ran away, and all my offers spurning.
Of reason I was near bereft, folks thought I would expire,
For oh, she took the goods and left the brats for Jeremiah.
Happy Hezekiah.
Old Jeremiah you have heard so oft relate his troubles,
He told that married life was nothing but a bubble. ”

“ Spirit Voice of Belle Brandon, Squire Jones’s Daughter, The Bloom is on the Rye, The Blue Junietta, The Carrier Dove, The Child’s Wish, The Cottage of my Mother, The Female Auctioneer, The Irish Jaunting Car, The Lords of Creation shall Woman obey, The Maniac, The Merry Sleigh-Ride, The Miller’s Maid, The Modern Belle, The Mountaineer’s Farewell, The Old Mountain Tree, The Strawberry Girl, The Snow Storm, The Song my Mother used to Sing, Three Grains of Corn, Washington’s Grave, What is Home without a Sister, Where are the Friends? Why Chime the Bells so Merrily? Why don’t the Men propose? ”

“ The Northern Boys, The Northmen’s Marseilles, The Old Union Wagon, The Original Yankee Doodle, The Patriot Flag, The Rock of Liberty, The Southrons are Coming, The Stripes and Stars, The Sword of Bunker Hill, The Union—It must be Preserved, The Union, Young and Strong, The Yankee Boy, The Zouave Boys, The Zouave’s Song, To the Seventy-ninth, Highlanders, Traitor, Beware our Flag, Unfurl the Glorious Banner, Viva l’America, Yankees are Coming. ”

“ Don’t let dat Hans Dunder shpeak somedings mit you,
Un all you young fellers, ven you courts in de passage,
Dink of Hans un Katarina un de big Bolony sassage.
[Pg 26]
To the West!
To the West! to the West! to the land of the free,
Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea;
Where a man is a man, if he is willing to toil,
And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil;
Where children are blessings, and he who hath most,
Has aid to his fortune, and riches to boast;
Where the young may exult, and the aged may rest,
Away, far away, to the land of the West. CHORUS
To the West! ”

“ Don’t be Angry, Mother, Down the River, E Pluribus Unum, Evening Star, Faded Flowers, Gentle Annie, Gentle Jenny Gray, Glad to Get Home, Hard Times, Have You Seen my Sister, Heather Dale, Home Again, I am not Angry, I Want to Go Home, Juney at the Gate, Kate Kearney, Kiss me Quick and Go, Kitty Clyde, Little Blacksmith, My Home in Kentuck, My Own Native Land, Nelly Gray, Nelly was a Lady, Old Dog Tray, Our Mary Ann, Over the Mountain, Poor Old Slave, Red, White, and Blue, Root, Hog, or Die, Root, Hog, or Die, No. ”

“ I hear an Angel Sing, I’d Offer Thee this Hand of Mine, In the Days when I Was Hard Up, John Anderson, my Jo, John, Johnny was a Shoemaker, Kind Relations, Last Week I took a Wife, Mary of Argyle, Meet Me by Moonlight, Napolitaine, Norah M’Shane, Nothing Else to Do, Och! ”

“ Alice Gray, America, Banks of the Old Mohawk, Be Kind to Each Other, Billy Grimes the Rover, Bryan O’Lynn, Come Sit Thee Down, Cora Lee, Crazy Jane, Darling Nelly Moore, Darling Old Stick, Fireman’s Victory, Good News from Home, Good-Night, Grave of Lilly Dale, Graves of a Household, Home, Sweet Home, I have no Mother Now, I’m leaving Thee in Sorrow, Annie, I miss Thee so, I Shouldn’t like to Tell, I Wandered by the Brook-Side, Katy Darling, Kathleen Mavourneen, Little Katy; or, Hot Corn, Mary of the Wild Moor, Mable Clare, Mary Alleen, Mill May, Minnie Moore, Minnie Dear, Mrs. ”

“ All’s for the Best, Annie Laurie, A National Song, Answer to a Thousand a Year, Answer to Kate Kearney, A Thousand a Year, Belle Brandon, Ben Bolt, Blind Orphan Boy’s Lament, Bob Ridley, Bold Privateer, Do They Miss me at Home? ”

“ Ash Katarina vas drawing de lager bier von day,
Her fader comed to her, un dus he do say:
“Hurry up, Katarina! de parlor go to,
A customer vaits to go riding mit you.”
“Oh, fader, vy don’t dey some oder ghel find,
To ride mit dem fellers? I don’t feel inclined;
De vay day drives de buggy, it makes me feel veak,
Un I vants to get married mit Hans Dunder next veek.”
Den her fader got mad un he shvear his “gott dam!”
She never must marry mit any young man.
“If you love dis Hans Dunder, you may go take his bags,
Mit his hooks, un his paskets, un go gadder rags.” ”

“ A Dollar or Two, A Man’s a Man for a’ That, Angel’s Whisper, Auld Lang Syne, A Yankee Ship, and a Yankee Crew, Bashful Young Man, Call Me Pet Names, Camptown Races, Charity, Cheer, Boys, Cheer, Comin’ Thro’ the Rye, Der mot Astore, Dilla Burn, Down the Burn, Davy, Love, Dumbarton’s Bonnie Dell, Ever of Thee, Gum-Tree Canoe, Hark! ”

“ The great want of a MILITARY HAND-BOOK of General and Special Information on all matters connected with a Soldier’s Life and Experience, has induced the publishers of the Dime Publications to have prepared, by competent hands, a work which will fully answer the requirements of the market. ”

“ And I play’d a lament for my poor dog Tray.
Where now shall I go—poor, forsaken, and blind?
Can I find one to guide me so faithful and kind?
To my sweet native village so far, far away,
I can ne’er more return with my poor dog Tray.
[Pg 69]
Unhappy Jeremiah. ”

“ For she must do as others do, else, what would Grundy say?
There’s fat and stumpy Martha Ann, that weighs two hundred pounds,
She’s a bait to catch a man, but not a bite has found.
And though she is so short and stout, she promenades Broadway ”