Various

“ Sparking Sunday night?
How your heart is thumping ’gainst your Sunday vest,
How wickedly ’tis working on this day of rest!
Hours seem but minutes, as they take their flight,
Bless me, ain’t it pleasant, sparking Sunday night?
Dad and Mam are sleeping, on their peaceful bed,
Dreaming of the things the folks in meeting said.
“Love ye one another,” ministers recite;
Bless me, DON’T we do it—sparking Sunday night?
One arm with gentle pressure lingers round her waist,
You squeeze her dimpled hand, her pouting lips you taste,
She freely slaps your face, but more in love than spite ”

“ And every night by the grave of Katy Darling,
She will meet you till you lie by her side,
Then in heaven you will meet your Katy Darling,
Dear Dermot and his much loved bride.
[Pg 43]
Sprig of Shillelah.
Och, love is the soul of a neat Irishman;
He loves all that is lovely, loves all that he can;
With a sprig of shillelah, and shamrock so green.
His heart is good-humor’d, ’tis honest and sound,
No malice or hatred is there to be found;
He courts and he marries, he drinks and he fights
For love—all for love—for in that he delights,
With his sprig of shillelah, and shamrock so green. ”

“ Cast no shadow on the heart.
[Pg 34]
A Parody on “Uncle Sam’s Farm.”
Of all the reformations, in the east or in the west,
Oh, the temperance reformation is the greatest and the best,
We invite the whole creation our pledge to come and sign,
And leave off drinking brandy, rum, cider, beer, and wine.
Chorus.
Then come along, come along, make no delay,
Come sign the temperance pledge, sign it right away,
For if you do but keep it, you need not fear alarm
But you will soon be rich enough to buy a handsome farm. ”

“ Ere the morning light was clouded,
That beam’d upon our youth,
And chill of worldly knowledge
Had blighted childhood’s truth.
We were boys and girls together,
When the step was firm and light,
When the voice was clear and ringing,
And the laughing eyes were bright ”

“ Then back! go back! from the red man’s track, for the red man’s eyes are dim,
To find that the white man wrongs the one who never did harm to him.
Yha, yha, yha!
[Pg 51]
Molly Bawn.
Oh, Molly Bawn, why leave me pining,
Or lonely waiting here for you—
While the stars above are brightly shining,
Because they have nothing else to do.
The flowers late were open keeping,
To try a rival blush with you,
But their mother, Nature, kept them sleeping,
With their rosy faces wash’d in dew.
Oh, Molly, &c. ”

“ 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? ”

“ Scorn not thy Brother, O! the Sea, the Sea, Old Sideling Hill, Our Boyhood Days, Our Father Land, Peter Gray, Rory O’More, Somebody’s waiting for Somebody, The Farmer Sat in his Easy Chair, The Farmer’s Boy, The Irishman’s Shanty, The Old Folks are Gone, The Post-Boy’s Song, The Quilting Party, Three Bells, ’Tis Home where the Heart is, Waiting for the May, We Stand Here United, What other Name than Thine, Mother? Where the Bright Waves are Dashing, What is Home without a Mother, Widow Machree, Willie’s on the Dark Blue Sea, Winter—Sleigh-Bell Song, Nancy Bell ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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? ”

“ 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! ”