Bibliography - American, 1800

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Short Title American, 1800 
Title American Songster, The 
Pages 245 
Publisher Warner & Hanna 
Location AoA 
Date 1800 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place AoA: E36822 
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Come, hail the day, ye sons of mirth  3-5 
Hail Columbia, happy land  5-7 
When Britain with dispotic sway [sic]  7-9 
To Columbia, who, gladly reclin'd at her ease  9-11 
How blest is the life a sailor leads  12-13 
Ye sons of Columbia, unite in the cause  13-15 
God Save the United States  15-17 
From th' soil our fathers dearly bought  17-18 
Columbia's Bald Eagle displays in his claws  18-19 
When Freedom, fair Freedom her banner display'd  20-22 
When our great sires this land explor'd  22-24 
Columbia's greatest glory  25-26 
While o'er Europe's fairest regions  26-29 
Sainted shades, who dar'd to brave  29-31 
Oh why should weak deluded man  31-33 
Fly ye traitors from our land  33-35 
Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt, O  37-40 
Brave countrymen both great and small  40-42 
Hibernia's sons, the patriot band  42-43 
Assembled in our country's cause  43-45 
In what history can you find  45-46 
Forc'd from home, and all its pleasures  46-48 
Go on, brave Prince, increase your debts  48-50 
Grand juries those time serving knaves  50-52 
Ye vile swinish herd, in the sty of taxation  53-55 
Good people I pray you attend to me  55-56 
Gallant nation foes no more  56-58 
Arrah! Paddy, dear boy, my heart and my joy  58-60 
Now Hibernians bold and brave  60-61 
Hibernia's sons, with hearts elate  61-62 
Hail! undaunted Hibernians true offspring of light  63-65 
My name is Freedom, new come o'er  65-67 
In concert join each soul that loves  67-69 
Sure, Master John Bull, I shan't know till I'm dead  69-72 
Our fathers left a race of kings  72 
Sing the loves of John and Jean  73-75 
There was a miller's daughter  75-76 
Indeed, miss, such sweethearts as I am  76-77 
World's a strange world, child, it must be confest, The  77-78 
Come all ye gem'men volunteers  78-79 
Come, every man now give his toast  79-80 
Madam, you know my trade is war  80-81 
I lock'd up all my treasure  81-82 
When Serjeant Belswagger, that masculine brute  82-83 
Women are will o' th' wisps 'tis plain  84 
Kernel from an apple's core, A  85 
While up the shrouds the sailor goes  85-86 
How kind and how good of his dear majesty  86-87 
My name's Ted Blarney, I'll be bound  87-88 
By roguery, 'tis true  88-90 
Is't my story you'd know? I was Patrick Mulrooney  90-91 
When faintly gleams the doubtful day  91-92 
Ladie's faces, now-a-days, The  92-93 
What naughty things we women are  93-94 
Plague of those musty old lubbers, A  94-96   
What argufies pride and ambition  96-97   
Tinker I am, A  97-98 
Say Fanny, wilt thou go with me?  99-100 
Younker, who his first essay, The  100-101 
Cotchlen sat all alone  101-102 
Wounds, here's such a coil! I am none of your poor  103 
Away, pale fear and ghastly terror!  103-104 
This life's a days journey, we rise in the morn  104 
If, my hearty, you'd not like a lubber appear  105 
Curs'd be the sordid wretch of yore  106 
I be one of they sailors who thinks 'tis no lie  106-108 
Freshly now the breeze is blowing  108 
Wind was hush'd the storm was over, The  109-110 
Lovely woman, pride of nature  110-111   
Why don't you know me by my scars?  111-112 
One negro, wi my banjer  112-113   
Far remov'd from noise and smaok  113-114 
Time was, for oh there was a time  114-115 
Jack dances and sings, and is always content  116-117 
Blest Friendship hail! thy gifts possessing  117-118 
Beauty I sell, who'll buy? who'll buy?  119-120 
I that once was a ploughman, a sailor am now  120-122 
Dear John prithee tell me, cried Ruth  123-124 
Ladies and gentlemen I'm a beau  124-126 
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant so jolly  127-128 
Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy  129-130 
In the motley feather'd race  130-132 
When I comes to town with a load of hay  132-134 
For I am the girl that was made for my Joe  135 
I am a chairman my name is McGee  136 
Pray ladies think not I presume  136-138 
Passing bell was heard to toll, The  138-140 
Come all hands ahoy to the anchor  140-142 
As Wit and Beauty, for an hour  142-144 
Oh the camp's delightful rigs  144-147 
While Fancy, as she rules the mind  147-148 
Love's a cheat; we over-rate it  148-149 
Go, proud lover, go!  149 
Cupid, cried Vulcan, 'tis no jest  149-150 
Gay Bacchus, and Mercury, and I  151-152 
Sweetly, sweetly, let's enjoy  152 
Tell me, neighbour, tell me plain  152-153 
While in every nation, A  153 
Breeze was fresh, the ship in stays, The  153-155 
If ever a sailor was fond of good sport  155-156 
Auctioneer mounts, and---first hawing and hemming, The  156-160 
Village was jovial, the month was May, The  160-162 
Watchman I am, and I knows all the round, A  162-164 
Tom Turnwell is my name, my boys  165-166 
Turn, O turn, relentless fair  166 
How happy she, who ne'er can know  167 
Inspired by so greatful a duty  167-168 
Sweet is the ship that under sail  168-169 
Say soldier which of glory's charms  169-170 
In one thou'd'st find variety  170-172 
I never shall survive it, cried Lumkin in despair  172-174 
'Twas a hundred years ago  174-176 
'Twas post meridian, half past four  176-178 
Life's as like as can be to an Irish wake  178-180 
Beautious sterling late I saw, A [sic]  181-182 
Trust not man for he'll deceive you  182-183 
Trust not woman, she'll beguile you  183 
Of Columbia's boast the praise be mine  184-185 
Attention pray give, while of hobbies I sing  186-187 
As musing I rang'd in the meads all alone  188 
When up to London first I came  189 
Alas! they've torn my love away  189-190 
I've found my fair, a true love knot  190-191 
Bottle is a very good thing, A  191-192 
My friends all declare that my time is mispent  192-193 
Delightful source of heart-felt joy  193-194 
Ye sons of Hibernia, assert your birth-right  194-195 
Ye sons of Hibernia, who snug on dry land  195-200  12 
Ye sons of Hibernia give ear to my story  200-202 
Turban'd Turk, who scorns the world, The  202-203 
Yes, Beda---thus, Beda, when I melancholy grow  203-204 
His sparkling eyes were dark as jet  204-205 
While, pensive, I thought on my love  205-206 
Fond husband, will, after a conjugal strife, A  206-207 
Stand close!--our comrade is not come  207-208 
Hear me, O fortune, hear me!  208 
Moving to the melody of music's note  208-209 
Major Domo am I  209-210 
Monsters of Hell, and noxious night  211 
Well met, jolly fellows, well met  211-212 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd  212-213 
Faint and wearily the way worn traveller  213-214 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling  214-215 
Say, have you in the village seen  215 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The  216 
He that will not merry, merry be  217 
What pleasure can compare  218-219 
A courting I went to my love  219-220 
Moon had clim'd the highest hill, The  220-221 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids  222 
Tho' far beyond the mountains that look so distant here  223-224 
Dear Nancy I've sailed the world around  224-225 
When I had scarcely told sixteen  225-226 
When gen'rous wine expands the soul  226-227 
What virgin or shepherd in valley or grove  227-228 
'Twas within a mile of Edinbirgh town  228-229 
Cold blew the wind, no gleam of light  229-230 
Johnny tripp'd up stairs at night  231   
When I was a younker, I first was apprentic'd  232   
To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee  233-235 
Thro' city, town & village--I every where have rov'd  235-237 
Oh the moment was sad, when my love and I parted  238-239 
Adieu! ye verdant lawns and bow'rs  239 
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat  240 
Look, dear ma'am, I'm quite the thing  241-242 
Fields were green, the hills were gay, The  242-243 
My Jockey is the blithest lad  243-244 
Lord, what care I for mam or dad?  244 
Mourn! mourn Columbia, mourn your Chief  245 
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