Axon Ballads Titles

Axon Ballad Collection

Index of Titles

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A	Sheet No.
Affectionate mother, or the Orphan boy	56
After the opera is over	78
Alice Grey	58
Annie o'the banks o'the Dee	85
Answer to Betsy of Ballantown Bray	57
Apple praties	49
Are you vaccinated?	25

B	Sheet No.
Battle of the Alma	2
Bachelor's wants	17
Banks of the Dee	60
Barmaid show	120
Battle of the Nile	2
Battle of Philadelphia	58
Beautiful isle of the sea	80
Black turf	90
Blighted flower	75
Bold militia man	125
Bonnie soldier laddie	103
Bonny blue handkerchief	61
Bonny bunch of roses O	40
Brave old oak	54
Brigham Young	111
Brisk young sailor	55
Burke's farewell	130
Bumper to Erin	49
Butcher turned devil	38

C	Sheet No.
Caledonian laddie	37
Canadian boat song	43
Castle Hyde	106
Charley Chalk	83
Child's dream; or, the city of Boston	81
Cigars and cogniac	87
Cockle Sal	11
Colleen Bawn	81
Colleen Rhue	64
Come back to Erin	110
Connemara Dan!	123
Cottage maid	24
Conversation between a drunken husband and wife	15
Crafty ploughboy	60
Croppy boy	50

D	Sheet No.
Darling ould stick	54
Dear little shamrock	105
Dear mother's grave	94
Death bed of a soldier	21
Death of Harry Clifton	112
Death of Wellington	60
Deeds of Irishmen	109
Deeds of Napoleon	5
Discussion between Tom and Mary	127 128
Do everyone as you can!	92
Do they think of me at home	33
Donnely and Oliver	55
Donny-Brook fair	59
Don't do it again	124
Down by the village well	8
Downhill of life	15
Dreearian O'Macree	72
Dream of Napoleon	4
Drinan Dhun	69
Drunkard's ragged child	31
Dryland sailor	96
Dumb wife	117

E	Sheet No.
Emigrant's farewell to his country	7
England for ever	67
English emigrant	17
Esmeralda	92
Exile's lament	127

F	Sheet No.
Fall of the leaf	75
Farmer's boy	72
Father has come home	34
Female cabin boy	71
Finnigan's wake	33
Five in the morning!	98
Forty years ago	63

G	Sheet No.
Garden gate	109
Garland of love	38
George Riley	24
Gipsy Countess	119 122
Gipsy's warning	104
Girl I left behind me	73
Give me the man of honest heart	101
Good-bye Charley!	93
Good news from home!	131
Grey mare	22

H	Sheet No.
Hail smiling morn!	75
Happy Irish boy	124
Happy little Dan!	20
Have you seen the claimant?	62
Have you seen the Shah?	77
Hearts of oak	23
Help the lame dog o'er the stile	102
Her name it was Jenny; or, the Welsh harp	119
Hungry army!	120
Hurrah for the road	42

I-J	Sheet No.
I have no mother now	104
I know my way about	79
I shall be married next Monday morning	52
I want to go home to Mamma!	121
I wonder how far they will go	86
If I had a thousand a year	89
Ikey Bill	32
I'm lonely since my mother died	114
I'm ninety five	51
I'm seventeen come Sunday	46
I'm sitting on a rail Judy	68
I'm so fond of music when the band begins to play	91
Ireland for the Irish!	18
Irish girl	30
Is he honest in his actions?	82
Isle of beauty	90
Isle of France	48
It's naughty but its nice	116
James M'Donald	47
Jerusalem cuckoo	79
Jessie the flower o' Dumblane	33
John & Mary Ann's discussion upon matrimony	99
John Bull and the Yankey	103
Johnny Doyle	65
Johnny I hardly knew ye	34
Jolly young waterman	68
Jone O'Grinfield	1
Journeyed over many lands	69
Judy you blackguard	53
Just before the battle Mother	130
Just to show there's no ill feeling	100
Just what w'ed all like to see	97

K	Sheet No.
Kick'd out of home	126
Kiss behind the door	101
Kiss me mother, kiss your darling	126
Kitty of Coleraine	118
Kitty Tyrrell	95

L	Sheet No.
Lament for the Manchester convicts	6
Lamentation for the awful calamity	12
Lancashire witches	69
Let me like a soldier fall	42
Lazy Society	59
Light of other days	58
Lines on a remarkable circumstance connected with Bretton Hall	107
Lines on the explosion at Witton	74
Lines on the siege of Paris	26
Lottie lane	82
Love! Love!! oh, scrumptious love	10
Lovely Nancy	14
Lover and the bird	74

M	Sheet No.
Mad butcher!	122
Maid of sweet Gorteen	39
Marble Arch	29
Marco and Pedro	98
Meet me by gaslight	57
Meet me by moonlight	40
Merry little fat man	132
Midnight Belle	123
Minute gun at sea	47
M'Kenna's dream	36
Monarch of the wood	115
Moon is on the waters	5
Mother, mother, let me kiss thee!	102 112
Mother says I mustn't	84
Mrs Johnson	13
My heart's with my Norah	3
My old cabin home	20
My love Nell	95
My own Molly Bawn	36
My native land so green	6

N	Sheet No.
Napoleon's farewell to arms	3
Nature's gay day	13
Nelly Ray	121
New York streets	23
Newfoundland dog	23
No English need apply!	76
Norah O'Neal	111
Norah the pride of Kildare	39
Not for Joseph	128
Nothing at all	43
Nothing can equal a good woman still	49

O	Sheet No.
O! say not woman's love is bought	57
O'Donnell Aboo!	29
Oakham poachers	65
Off to Donnybrook	113
Old English squire	44
Old water mill	93
One pound two	11
On board of the Mary Jane	91
Out with my gun in the morning	104
Owd Ned's a rare strong chap	45
Oyster girl [2 different songs]	35 89

P	Sheet No.
Paddy Casey	96
Particular!	71
Pat Molloy	19
Pat O'Hara	86
Patrick Shean; of the Glen of Atherloe	129
Pauper's child	32
Phoebe dearest	105
Plough-boy turned sailor	46
Poor dog Tray	42
Poor man's wish!	82
Poor Mary of the silvery tide	27
Popsy wopsy	14
Preaching for bacon	51
Pretty Rosaline	131
Pretty Susan the pride of Kildare	50
Prodigal Son	21
Promenade the spa	126
Prophecy for 1973	8

R	Sheet No.
Rambler from Clare	43
Rambling Robin	52
Riley's farewell	66
Robin's so shy	91
Rock me to sleep mother	78
Rollicking Irishman	85
Rory of the hills	95
Royal marriage between the Marquis of Lorne	9
Rummy-funny Indians	75

S	Sheet No.
Sailor's grave	105
Sally Sly	1
Sayers and Heenan's struggle for the championship	117
Send back my Barney to me	103
Serio-comic singer	31
Shake of the hand	9 25
Share my cottage	67
She died for love	5
Sheffield 'prentice	28 45
Sich a getting upstairs	37
Slap up lodgings	129
Sons of Fingal; or, Tara's old hall	108
Spencer the rover	33
Spider and the fly	48
Sprig of thyme	44

T	Sheet No.
Teddy's ghost	132
Tempest of the heart	7
Ten o'clock	22
That licks me	19
There are kind hearts everywhere	100
There is a flower that bloometh	100
There's bound to be a row	125
Think of your poor wife at home	99
Thirteen pence a day	63
Tichborne claimant	16
Trial of the claimant	16
Trip o'er the mountain	87
Tyler and Robinson	116

U-W	Sheet No.
Un-seaworthy ship	10
Wants of the Shah	108
We may be happy yet	61
We met	67
Wedding o'trust	70
What I dreamt in my old arm chair	118
What will old England come to	106
When George the Third was king	97
When the cock begins to crow	78
When these old clothes were new	83
When ye gang awa', Jamie	115
Where the grass grows green	94
Whip and spur; or the jockey's ride to win	84
Will o'the wisp	85
William and Harriet	64
William and Mary	88
Wilt thou be my bride, Kathleen	113
Woman's pride	88
Wonderful adventures of Mr. O'Flinn in search of Old Mother Clifton	41
Won't you tell me why, Robin?	114
Woodman spare that tree	53
Wreck of the London	80
Wreck of the Northfleet, or Father, put me in the boat	113

XYZ	Sheet No.
Yankey boy from Croix!	76
You'll remember me	63
Young Edwin in the lowlands low	131
Young girls mind this when you are married	39
Young woman's A.B.C	30
Youth and bloom	66

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