Axon Ballads First Lines

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A	Sheet No.
A brisk young sailor courted me	55
A hundred pound, my master said	84
A little ragged laddie goes wandering thro' the street	31
A man and maid, last month 'tis said	70
A Methodist parson whose name it was George	51
A poor child in grief was weeping	32
A song to the oak, the brave old oak	54
A stands for Annie	30
A strolling in the Burlington	126
About fifty years ago, when old George the Third was king	44
About the Shah of Persia	77
Adieu my lovely Nancy	14
After the opera's over	78
And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman	68
And it's I that has nothing to do	43
Arrah! Judy you blackguard	53
As beauteous as Flora, is lovely young Norah	39
As beautiful Kitty, one morning was tripping	118
As I rode out on a summer's morning	106
As I roved out one evening fair	66
As I roved out one morning	30
As I was a walking one morning in Spring	52
As I was going up New York streets	23
As I was walking in London Street	89
As I was walking, one morning in the breeze	75
As I was walking one summers morning	64
As I walked out one May morning	46
As I was walking one morning in May	61
As Marco and Pedro, were jogging along	98
As William and Mary strayed by the sea side	88
All is hushed, save night winds stealing	7
Arise, arise, Britannia's sons arise	2
At Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, known so well	107
At Kentuck last night a party met	37
At five in the morning, the miner doth rise	98
At six in the morning awaking	1
At Slieveuamon the man who asked me was Scully dead?	95

B	Sheet No.
Backward, turn backward	78
Beautiful isle of the sea!	80
Behold a noble hero	125
Behold the monarch of the woods	115
Blythe Sandy is a bonny boy	37
By the dangers of the ocean	40
By the side of a clear crystal stream	94

C	Sheet No.
Charley Chalk was a portrait painter by trade	83
Come all ye boys, both far and near	95
Come all you feeling lovers and listen to my song	131
Come all you gallant Britons bold	117
Come all you gentle muses combine and lend an ear	39
Come all you jolly young fellows and listen awhile	106
Come all you pretty fair maids	44
Come all you Roman Catholics that's from your native home	58
Come all you single women	17
Come all you young fowlers that carry the gun	36
Come all young fellows that delight in any game	116
Come back to Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourneen	110
Come, cheer up my lads	23
Come James now sit beside me, this is the Sabbath day	15
Come listen to my ditty, boys, I won't detain you long	109
Come neighbours draw near and listen awhile	38

D	Sheet No.
Dear wife, I'm going out to-night	127 128
Do not trust him, gentle lady	104
Do they think of me at home?	33
Down on de old plantation	20

E	Sheet No.
Each feeling heart I pray attend	12
Eight years ago I was a swell, sir	83

F	Sheet No.
Faintly as tolls the evening chime	43
Farewell to the lands of my birth and adoption	130
Farewell ye splendid citidals metropolis called Paris	3
Fill up a cup, fill up a cup to the bright land	49
Frenchmen arouse, arouse to fame and glory	26

G	Sheet No.
Give me a little humble cot	82
Give me the man of honest heart	101
God speed the keel of the trusty ship	17
Good news from home, good news for me	131

H	Sheet No.
Hail! smiling morn, that tips the hills with gold	75
Have you seen the new cottage	93
He is gone, and I'm now sad and lonely	103
He who wears a regimental suit	87
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain	38
Hurrah over Hounslow Heath to roam	42

I-J	Sheet No.
I am a darling Irish boy	20
I am a donkey driver, I'm the best that's in the line	79
I am a fair maid that's entangled in love	65
I am a true born Irishman I came from Paddy's land	6
I am a wife these dozen of years	39
I am a young fellow that always lov'd rural sport	72
I am lonesome since I crost the hill	73
I come from Connemara, and Dan it is my name	123
I fell in love with a pretty girl	84
I had a flower, within my garden growing	75
I have journey'd over many lands	69
I have some words about the times	25
I hear the soft winds sighing	104
I live a jovial country life	104
I love a little country queen	121
I loved at first sight, now you've heard	116
I never was on board a ship	96
I oft see you smiling dear mother	7
I once did court a pretty girl	123
I once had a sweetheart	121
I once stood by a dying youth	21
I sing of a pretty fair haired girl	31
I that once was a ploughboy	46
I was born in Tipperary	124
I was brought up in Sheffield	28 45
I went to bed the other night fell fast asleep & dreaming	103
If you'll give attention, I'll unfold to you	126
I'm a poor cotton weaver as many one knows	1
I'm a poor unlucky married man	125
I'm Denny Blake from County Clare	94
I'm going to sing a little song, if you will only strive	112
I'm lonely since my mother died	114
I'm ninety-five, I'm ninety-five	51
I'm sitting on a rail Judy	86
In the county gaol at Salford	6
In the days when George the Third was king	97
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining	15
In the town of Portsmouth I was born	91
In vain I attempt to describe	69
It may not be, it cannot be	85
It was early, early in the spring	50
It was nature's gay day	13
It was summer, so softly the breezes were blowing	60
It's of a fair young creature, who dwelt by the sea-side	27
It's of a pretty female as you shall understand	71
Its of a rich gentleman near London did dwell	64
John Henry Sharp, is my name	92
Just before the battle, Mother	130
Just eighteen years ago	19
Just listen around, and to you I'll tell	132

K	Sheet No.
Kiss me mother, kiss your darling	126

L	Sheet No.
Life-saver! wave-stemmer! deep-diver, away!	23
Love, love, oh! what is love?	10

M	Sheet No.
Many a knight and lady gay	35
Many sluggards I have seen	78
May I ask for your attention	76
Meet me by gaslight alone	57
Meet me by moonlight alone	40
Mother, dear, give over crying	81
Mother, mother, let me kiss thee	102 112
My father gave me a portion in hand	21
My love he is a soldier in lands far away	103
My name is bold Morgan Mc'Carthy	54
My name is Dan Logan	119
My name is Ikey Bill	32
My name is Joseph Baxter	128
My name is Patrick Shean	129
My name is Ted O'Mannon	49
My heart's with my Norah	3

N	Sheet No.
Not a hundred miles from "here-or-there"	120
Now, have you seen my Sarah?	91
Now, Brigham Young is a Mormon bold	111
Now I'm a blighed chap you will stay	100
Now I'm going to say a word	80
Now, Maggy dear, I do hear, you have been on the spree	11
Now they tell us this world's ne'er at an end	8
Now when first from my childhood I came to a man	52
Now when I was a little boy	79
Now you'll fancy that I've been abroad	75

O	Sheet No.
O boys did you hear of the battle	2
O Erin's isle, my heart's delight	127
O I have got a charming bride	13
O once I was as gay	101
O say not woman's love is bought	57
O sing - sing on sweetly to cheer me	74
O this world is so hard to get through	59
O, young English girls, list to my story	108
Och, sure I am an Irish lad	113
Of all the wives that ever lived, there's none can equal mine	99
Of late I've been captivated	69
Oh, call it not a desert bare	100
Oh! Erin my country	108
Oh! have you seen the claimant	62
Oh! husband, the long night is past	99
Oh, how, can a poor gipsey maiden like me	119 122
Oh, how I envy girls who have their lovers close at home	93
Oh, I am an Irish boy	86
Oh I'm a helpless female, an unprotected female	14
Oh! I'm lonely tonight, love, without you	111
Oh! I once was as gay as the lark	82
Oh! if I had a thousand a year	89
Oh, let me like a soldier fall	42
Oh! listen I pray, and hear what I say	97
Oh, share my cottage gentle maid	67
Oh! smile as thou wert wont to smile	61
Oh, wilt thou be my bride, Kathleen	113
On evening as I gently roved	24
On the 14th of September	61
On the green banks of Shannon	42
Once I was happy and gay	122
One day rolling down, through old Wexford town	59
One eve as I sat, I shall never forget	118
One morning in December	74
One night I dreamed I lulled asleep	66
One night of late I chanced to stray	36
One night sad and languid, I went to my bed	4
Our bark was far, far from land	105
Our ship she is ready to bear us away	7

P	Sheet No.
Phoebe dearest, tell, oh! tell me	105
Please to draw near, and the truth I'll declare	60
Poor and needy, sick & seedy	102
Poor old Roger Tichborne now	16
Proudly the note of trumpet is sounding	29

S	Sheet No.
Shades of evening close not o'er us	90
She's all my fancy painted her	58
Since our foes to invade us	67
Sing oh, for the royal wedding day	9
Some fellows are fond of a bother	124
Some people have nerve	86

T	Sheet No.
Tarnation glad to see you all	76
Tell me not that he's a poor man	82
The day was spent, the moon shone bright	109
The doomed ship weighs anchor	10
The first of my courtship that ever was known	43
The golden vale of Limerick	81
The good ship "Northfleet" at anchor lay	113
The light of other days is faded	58
The sun had set behind the hill	72
The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond	33
The sun was far in the clouds advanced	48
The Tichborne claimant to the court has gone	16
There is a flower that bloometh	100
There is a little man, dressed all in grey	132
There's a dear little plant that grows on our isle	105
There's everything that man can wish	71
There was a bonny blade, had married a country maid	117
These words were composed by Spencer the rover	33
Through Dublin sweet city I ramble	90
Tim Finnigan lived in Sackville Street	33
Tis now some forty years ago	63
To go for a soldier is a very fine thing	63
'Twas in the spring not long ago	8
T'was in the town of Mullingar	96
'Twas near the banks of bonny Tweed	131
Twas night, when the moon luminated the sky	87
Twas on a summer's morning, the weather being clear	24
'Twas ten o'clock one moonlight night	22

U-W	Sheet No.
We met, 'twas in a crowd	67
Well boys I'm here again d'ye see	85
What this blessed world will come too	19
When first from sea I landed	50
When first to town I came, and at the railway landed	129
When I liv'd a wom wi my feyther	45
When I was young and in my prime	120
When in the storm on Albion's coast	47
When night's a dark mantle	85
When other lips and other hearts	63
When the moon is on the waters	5
When ye gang awa', Jamie	115
Where I offer my hand to a friend	9 25
Where is the little gipsy's home?	92
While going the road to sweet Athy	34
While strolling near the Marble Arch	29
"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly	48
Within a dreary convict cell	18
Woodman spare that tree	53

XYZ	Sheet No.
Ye children, whom no absent joy	56
Ye may talk of young girls	11
You men and you wives lend an ear to my song	88
Ye muses I beg you will lend me your	55
Yes, Mary, dear Mary, your father's come	34
You are not what you were, Robin	114
You heroes of the day who are lively brave and gay	5
You muses all draw near	22
You sweet pretty lasses wherever you be	49
You young men and maidens pray lend an ear	57
Young Henry was as brave a youth	5
Young men and old I now make bold	47
Young men in every station	65
Young Robin, my sweetheart, is handsome and fair	91
You're looking fresh as the morn, darling	95

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