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pt. 1. There is a tavern in the town -- Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay! -- There'll be a hot time -- Sweet Rose O' Grady -- After the ball -- Daisies won't tell -- The sidewalks of New York (East side, West side) -- Sweet bunch of daisies -- Little Annie Rooney -- The sunshine of Paradise Alley -- Bicycle built for two (Daisy Bell) -- My sweetheart's the man in the moon -- The bowery -- Comrades -- The band played on -- She may have seen better days -- On a Saturday night -- Dreaming -- Only one girl in the world for me -- Mother pin a rose on me -- Molly o! -- Good morning Carrie! -- The story of the rose (Heart of my heart) -- Two little girls in blue -- Playmates -- Molly and I and the baby -- You gave me your love -- There'll come a time -- You are the only girl I'll ever care about -- Just one girl -- Venus, my shining love -- Every night in Central Park -- Mary Kelly's beau -- While strolling in the park one day -- Take back the heart -- She is more to be pitied than censured -- You tell me your dream, I'll tell you mine (I had a dream one day) -- Poor little Mary -- She may be somebody's mother -- I was once your wife -- Bill Bailey -- Whoa, Emma! -- Call her back and kiss her -- The man on the flying trapeze -- We won't go home until morning (For he's a jolly good fellow) -- The old gray mare -- Hinky dinky parley-voo -- Old MacDonald had a farm -- Let me shake the hand that shook the hand of Sullivan -- We all went home in a cab -- Finigan's wake -- O'Grady's goat -- O'Dwyer caught a cold -- Where the chicken got the axe -- On the way home from Riley's -- O'Hoolighan -- When Hogan paid his rent -- Dan paid for the oysters -- I handed it over to Riley -- The Irish poker club -- The Irish jubilee -- Lanigan's ball -- Since McManus goes down to the track -- Mike McCarty's wake -- There goes McManus -- The party at Odd Fellow's Hall -- Maloney and the brick -- Singing at the hallway door -- Pay Maloney's family -- Dooligan's ghost -- Sergeant McGee of the N.Y.M.P. -- Many a time -- When the doctor sees you -- Casey's social club -- The Irish spree -- Hugh McCue -- His name is Patrick Brannigan -- He don't know where he's at -- The chili widow -- McFadden's uptown flat -- Throw him down, McCloskey -- Tommy make room for your uncle -- The Irish wedding -- Locked out after nine -- Bidalia McCann -- His funeral's to-morrow -- Number four, second floor -- McCarthy's widow -- Dan McGoogan's goat -- There are moments (When one wants to be alone) -- What's the matter with your feet? -- What's in a name? -- Mrs. Patrick Casey's swell pink tea -- Larry Moore -- He is Irish! -- Mary Ann, I'll tell your ma -- Pat Malloy -- Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder? -- Down went McGinty -- McSorley's twins -- I've worked eight hours this day -- Face upon the barroom floor -- Why don't they do so now? -- I had but fifty cents -- Only a hundred girls -- I'll place it in the hands of my attorney -- Song of the plumber -- Thankful every time -- When Susan Thompson tries to reach high C -- To be sure it's no business of mine -- Once was enough for him -- They would if they could, but they can't -- Curious cures -- Last week I took a wife -- The dark girl dressed in blue -- May Irwin's "frog" song -- May Irwin's "bully" song -- Plum pudding -- The things I've neglected to do. |
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The careful man -- I've been to gay Paree -- The charming young widow I met in the train -- Mary Black from Hackensack -- The girl that keeps the peanut stand -- Jonah and the whale -- Skating on the ice -- Five little dogs with curly tails -- Johnny Sands -- The preacher and the bear -- The national debt -- Never take the horse-shoe from the door -- You never miss the water till the well runs dry -- Where did you get that hat? -- Where was Moses when the light went out? -- A little bit off the top -- When Enoch he knocked, she knocked Enoch -- The cork leg -- The future Miss 'Awkins -- My old dutch -- What cher (Or knock's em in the Old Kent Road) -- My wild Irish rose -- Love remains the same (from the play The minstrel of Clare) -- Home song -- Old fashioned mother -- What won't we do for love? -- The warmest baby in the bunch -- I guess I'll have to telegraph my baby -- Emmets cuckoo song -- Hot Tamale Alley -- The Broadway girl -- If you love me truly -- I told them that I saw you -- Break the news to Mother -- I've a longing in my heart for you, Louise -- Hello Central -- My gal is a high born lady -- Our grandfathers' days -- The pardon came too late -- Mother was a lady (If Jack were only here) -- The little lost child -- Sleep, baby, sleep -- As your hair grows whiter -- She was happy till she met you -- Belle O'Brien -- The lily of Laguna -- The soldiers of the Queen -- Little Dolly Daydream (Pride of Idaho) -- Always -- Hush, little girl, don't cry -- Because -- Get your head above the crowd -- Lucky Jim -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- Honest John Jones -- On the banks of the Wabash, far away -- Lily Dale -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Kentucky babe -- The big sun flower -- The little Widow Dunn -- Market on Saturday night -- The mansion of aching hearts -- Piccaninny mine, good-night -- Off to Philadelphia -- Just because she made those goo-goo eyes -- Little Alabama boy -- Frankie and Johnnie -- Say "Au revoir" but not "Goodbye" -- I don't want to play in your yard -- In the baggage coach ahead -- Ain't that a shame -- The picture that is turned toward the wall -- Where there's a will there's a way -- Wait for the turn of the tide -- A rolling stone gathers no moss -- Glorious-glorious -- Here's to the maiden -- Gin-sling -- And when I die -- A toast -- Forty-nine bottles -- Drinking song -- Whiskey-still -- Pass around the good old beer -- Buffalo gals -- The yellow rose of Texas -- 'Cross the wide Missouri (Oh, Shenandoah) -- On top of Old Smokey -- Red River valley -- Down in the valley -- Bury me out on the prairie -- Hand me down my walking cane -- Dogie song -- The railroad corral -- Git along little dogies -- When the work's all done this fall -- Cowboy Jack -- Cowboy's meditation -- Rosalie, the prairie flower -- O bury me not on the lone prairie -- The Old Chisholm Trail -- Home on the range -- That Big Rock Candy Mountain -- Life on the ocean wave -- Sailing, sailing -- A capital ship -- Blow the man down -- My last cigar -- Every inch a sailor -- Down went the captain -- Nancy Lee -- A Yankee ship, and a Yankee crew -- I am a rover of the sea -- The king of the main -- Tarpaulin jacket -- All on account of Eliza -- The midshipmite -- Rocked in the cradle of the deep -- The mermaid -- A thousand leagues away -- Homeward bound -- Good-bye, my lover, good-bye -- The tar's farewell -- Ten thousand miles away -- Rio Grande -- Rumsty-ho! -- Polly wolly doodle -- The bull dog -- Little Moses -- The owl and the pussy cat -- Son of a gambolier -- The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. |
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Vive l'amour (Vive la compagnie) -- Co-ca-che-lunk -- Killaloe -- There were three crows -- Cannibalee -- The three little pigs -- Way down in Maine -- The debutante -- Amici -- Some say that true love is a pleasure -- Maria -- Mrs. Craigin's daughter -- Salamagundi -- Poker song -- Alikazander -- Nineteen hundred and eight -- The moon-lighter -- Rig-jag-jig-jag -- Tourelay -- She's gone, let her go -- Bacon and greens -- Stand by your glasses -- Old man Moses -- Is Maud in? -- Naughty Clara -- An ancient Irish proverb -- The poco's daughter -- Hi Jenny, ho Jenny Johnson -- Signor MacSinger, the baritone singer -- Old Thompson's mule -- Tally ho -- Imogene Donahue -- Will you walk a little faster? -- Sweet Marie -- Beautiful ballad of Waska Wee -- Boreen -- The king of the Cannibal Islands -- Ba, be -- Down by the riverside -- The Spanish guitar -- Gaudeamus igitur -- The man in the moon's ball -- The yodel song -- Paddy and the frog -- The Spanish cavalier -- Dutch warbler -- Ching-a-ling-ling -- Upidee -- Halico! Calico! -- When good fellows get together -- Simon the cellarer -- Peanut song -- Rig-a-jig -- The three flies -- The lone fish-ball -- Mush, mush -- Little wee dog -- Noah's ark -- Nut brown maiden -- Bingo, balm of Gilead -- Abdul, the bulbul ameer -- Last night -- Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl -- Meerschaum pipe -- The Lauterbach maiden -- His heart was true to Poll -- Old King Cole -- Michael Roy -- Old man Noah -- The yellow and blue -- We meet again tonight! -- Spanish proverb -- Shool -- Eton boating song -- Come back to me -- Star of the summer night -- There's music in the air -- The lady in crape -- From the opera The fortune teller. Gypsy love song ; Jan was a Gypsy bold ; Good morning ; The lily and the nightingale ; With lance in rest ; Romany life ; If people said the things they mean -- From the musical show The serenade. The angelus ; Cupid and I ; Woman, lovely woman ; Gaze on this face ; With cracking of whip ; Don Jose of Sevilla ; In fair Andalusia ; I envy the bird ; Song of the carbine ; I love thee -- From the opera Prince Ananias. In the fair hamlet of Fancy ; The silent rose ; In glory breaks the golden morn ; I'm the most original ; Amaryllis ; My heart is palpitating ; Titled widows all are we ; Time will come (The outlaw's song) -- From the musical show The wizard of the Nile. Dreaming, dreaming ; In Dreamland ; Star light, star bright ; My Angeline. From the musical show The idol's eye. Fairy tales ; The tattooed man -- From the musical show The geisha. Hey-diddle-diddle! When man is in love ; Chin chin Chinaman ; A geisha's life ; Dear little Jappy-Jap-Jappy ; The amorous goldfish ; The jewel of Asia ; Chon Kina ; Toy duet ; Jack's the boy ; The interfering parrot -- From the operetta Waltz dream. That Viennese waltz ; Now he is my own ; Kiss duet ; Hear the waltz ; Waltzing, wine, and merry song -- From the operetta Die Fledermaus. Serenade ; Let me explain ; Trio ; Champagne song ; 1st finale -- From the operetta The merry widow. I'm happy at Maxim's ; For I'm a true loving wife -- From the operetta Olivette. The torpedo and the whale -- The merry widow. Finale, act III -- From the musical show The belle of New York. They call me the Belle of New York ; When we are married ; Teach me how to kiss, dear -- From the comic opera Santa Maria. Santa Maria, my joy, my pride -- Farewell to the king's highway. |
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From the opera Robin Hood. Armorer's song -- From the musical show The fencing master. The nightingale and the rose -- From the opera Robin-hood. Brown October ale -- From the musical play The runaway girl. The boy guessed right -- From the operetta Patience. Love that no wrong can cure -- From the musical Der Obersteiger. Don't be cross -- From the operetta Patience. The magnet and churn -- From Iolanthe. In good Queen Bess's days ; Said I to myself, said I -- From The mikado. A wandering minstrel ; The flowers that bloom in the spring ; Tit willow ; Here's a how-de-do ; Mi-ya-sa-ma ; The criminal cried -- From the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. I'm called Little Buttercup ; We sail the ocean blue ; Carefully on tip-toe stealing ; Over the bright blue sea ; I am the monarch of the sea ; Admiral's song ; Let's give three cheers ; When I was a lad ; Finale -- From the operetta The gondoliers. I am a courtier ; There lived a king ; A regular royal queen ; Dance a cachucha -- From Trial by jury. The judge's song -- From The pirates of Penzance. A policeman's lot -- The monkey's wedding -- Barb'ry Allen -- Sittin' on a rail -- Good-night, ladies -- A little more cider -- Good sweet ham -- Somebody loves me -- The history of the world -- The foggy, foggy dew -- Folks that put on airs -- Careless love -- Igave my love a cherry (The riddle) -- I've been working on the railroad -- Wait for the wagon -- Paddle your own canoe -- The blue-tail fly -- Stop that knocking at the door -- Shortnin' bread -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- She'll be comin' round the mountain -- Rosa Lee -- Susan Jane -- Aunt Dinah's quilting party -- Billy boy -- Ten little kiddies -- Rosalie -- Aura Lee -- John Henry -- The little brown jug -- That little old red shawl -- When the corn is waving, Annie dear -- The little gal who winked at me -- Nicodemus Johnson -- Oh, Zeke -- At a Georgia camp meeting -- O! them golden slippers -- Dixie -- Old folks at home -- Beautiful dreamer -- Gentle Annie -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Come where my love lies dreaming -- Oh, boys, carry me 'long -- Old Black Joe -- My old Kentucky home -- Camptown Races -- Old dog Tray -- Oh! Susanna -- Nelly was a lady -- Nelly Bly -- Massa's in de cold, cold ground -- Angelina Baker -- Hard times come again no more -- Uncle Ned -- Melinda -- Maggie by my side -- Farewell my Lilly -- The Campbells are coming -- Auld lang syne -- Drink to me only with thine eyes -- Logie O'Buchan -- Annie Laurie -- Blue bell of Scotland -- On the rocks by Aberdeen -- In the gloaming -- My heart is sair for somebody -- Flow gently, sweet Afton -- Within a mile of Edinburgh town -- Charlie is my darling -- My love is like a red red rose -- Comin thro' the rye -- A highland lad my love was born -- Bring back my Bonnie to me -- A man's a man for a' that -- The land o' the leal -- We'd better bide a wee -- The ingle side -- Ye banks and brass of Bonnie Doon -- Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled -- Robin Adair -- Bonnie Doon -- The birks of Aberfeldy -- My heart's in the Highlands -- John Anderson, my Jo -- The waefu' heart -- Duncan Gray -- Auld Robin Gray -- Bonnie Dundee -- March of the Cameron men -- Here awa', there awa' -- Jock O'Hazeldean -- Shamrock, thistle and rose -- Katty, darling -- An Irish love song -- The green little shamrock -- An Irish folk song -- Father O'Flynn -- Brian Boru -- Widow Malone -- Paddy Duffy's cart -- The rose of Tralee -- Kitty Tyrrell -- Kathleen Mavourneen -- The cruiskeen lawn -- Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone) -- 'Tis the last rose of summer -- Rich and rare were the gems she wore -- Believe me if all those endearing young charms -- Oh! the days are gone when beauty bright -- Minstrel boy -- Snowy-breasted pearl -- The harp that once thro' Tara's halls -- Erin, the tear and the smile is thine -- Come back to Erin -- The Irish jaunting car -- Kate Kearney -- Londonderry air -- Killarney -- The bonnie blue flag -- Kathleen Aroon -- Husheen -- St. Patrick's Day -- Meeting of the waters -- Wearing of the green -- The lass with the delicate air -- The low-backed car -- The pretty girl milking her cow -- Kitty of Coleraine -- Colleen Bawn -- The fine ould Irish gentleman -- Dublin Bay -- St. Patrick was a gentleman -- Plaisir d'amour -- L'addio a Napoli -- Marianna -- Tra la la -- Caro mio ben -- La vera sorrentina -- Carme -- Non ti rammenti? |
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Carmela mia -- O marenariello -- Vieni sul mar! -- Oh Marie -- Take me home -- Tiritomba -- Mandolinata -- Lu cardillo -- L'addio del voluntario -- Neapolitan song -- Santa Lucia -- Nina -- Serenata napolitana -- Ciribiribin -- Funiculi, funicula -- Carmela -- El cefiro -- Amor -- Tu -- Adelita -- Ay, ay, ay -- Juanita -- Me gustan todas -- Tu-ru-ru-ru -- El tortillero -- La perla -- To morrow -- Teresita mia -- Mucama -- Canto do cysne -- Se nao me amas, Oh! mulher -- Minha esperança -- Du, Du liegst mir im Herzen -- Muss i denn zum Städtle hinaus -- Der Krähwinkler Landsturm -- Bier Walzer -- In einem kuhlen Grunde -- Doktor Eisenbart -- Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn -- Wenn ich ein Voglein war -- Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat -- Schlaf, Kindchen schlaf -- So leb denn wohl, du stilles Haus -- Kommt ein Vogerl geflogen -- Kuckuk, kuckuk ruft aus dem Wald -- Ännchen von Tharau -- Andreas Hofer -- Der Mai ist gekommen -- Bald prangt, den Morgen zu verkünden -- Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald -- Auch ich war ein Jüngling -- Hier im ird'schen Jammertal -- From the operetta Der Verschwender. Hobellied -- Drunten im Unterland -- Es ritten drei Reiter zum Tore hinaus -- Hans und Lisel -- Madle Ruck, ruck, ruck -- Ca, ca geschmauset -- Beautiful Waipio (Maikai Waipio) -- Gardenia flower (Pua sadinia) -- Adios ke aloha -- Sweet lei mamo -- Sweet violet -- Let poni moi = Wreath of carnations -- Maui girl -- Aloha oe -- Forget-me-not -- I love thee = Ich liebe dich -- Songs my mother taught me -- Oh promise me -- Maiden's prayer -- None but the lonely heart -- Villanelle -- On wings of song -- The Lorelei -- Who is Sylvia? -- Hark! hark! the lark -- A dream -- My love was just a day dream -- Come into the garden Maud -- Just tell them that you saw me -- Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- Roll on, silver moon -- The old-fashioned well by the way-side -- Do they miss me at home -- Vacant chair -- I cannot sing the old songs -- How can I leave thee? -- Forgotten -- Asleep in the deep -- Home again -- The soldier's farewell -- How can I bear to leave thee (Soldier's farewell) -- When love is kind -- Home, sweet home -- What is home without a mother? -- Long, long ago -- Thine eyes so blue and tender -- Sweet Genevieve -- The old oaken bucket -- Whispering hope -- Silver threads among the gold -- The monastery bells -- The dearest spot on earth -- I want to see my dear old home -- Listen to the mocking bird -- The sweetest story ever told -- When the swallows homeward fly -- Sweet and low -- Ben Bolt -- Love's old sweet song -- Do they think of me at home? -- Breeze of night -- Grandfather's clock -- The little brown church in the vale -- Oft in the stilly night -- Good-bye -- Beauty's eyes -- Emmet's lullaby (Go to sleep, Lena darling) -- Alouette -- Strike the harp gently -- Gipsy's warning -- In old Madrid -- Alice, where are thou? -- The star spangled banner -- America -- America the beautiful -- Maryland, my Maryland -- Columbia, the gem of the ocean -- Battle hymn of the republic -- Hail, Columbia -- Columbia (Anthem) -- Artillery song (Caisson song) -- The Marines' hymn -- Hail to the Chief -- John Brown's body -- Tramp, tramp, tramp -- The girl I left behind me -- Tenting on the old camp ground -- Rule, Britannia -- The maple leaf forever -- La Marseillaise -- Finlandia -- Mexican national hymn -- Oh, the land that we love -- The rosary -- The holy city -- The lost chord -- The palms -- Give me that old time religion -- Joshua fought the battle of Jericho -- Deep river -- Go down Moses -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Keep them golden gates wide open -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- Steal away -- Heav'n heav'n -- Hear them bells -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- Somebody's knocking at your door -- Kingdom coming -- I am a poor wayfaring stranger -- Climbing up the golden stairs -- Jingle bells -- Silent night! Holy night! -- Christmas song -- Star of the East -- O come, all ye faithful -- It came upon the midnight clear -- The first Noel -- O little town of Bethlehem -- Good King Wenceslas -- We three kings of Orient are -- God rest ye, merry gentlemen -- Joy to the world -- Hark! the herald angels sing -- Away in a manger. |
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"The greatest collection of humorous and nostalgic song favorites ever published in one volume in the history of music... 740 wonderful songs in over 30 categories. The book contains a large group of comic song hits of the stage and of all colleges; best loved folk songs from various parts of the world, famous songs of the Gay 90's, old musical comedy favorites, popular ballads, well known sentimental songs, in addition to songs for every mood and occasion. A great many of the comic, special material songs have heretofore never been published." |
| General note | Melodies, with words and chord symbols. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| General note | Chord chart on endpapers. |
| LCCN | 56002738 |
