Beadle’s Dime Song Books.
No. 1.
- All’s for the best,
- A good time coming,
- A national song,
- A thousand a year,
- Annie Laurie,
- Ans’er to thousand a year,
- Ans’er to K. Kearney,
- Belle Brandon,
- Ben Bolt,
- Blind boy’s lament,
- Bob Ridley,
- Bold private’r,
- Do they miss me at home,
- Don’t be angry,
- Down the river,
- Dying Californian,
- E Pluribus Unum,
- Evening star,
- Faded flowers,
- Gentle Annie,
- Gentle Jennie Gray,
- Glad to get home,
- Hard times,
- Have you seen my sister,
- Heather dale,
- Hills of New England,
- Home again,
- I am not angry,
- I want to go home,
- Juney at the gate,
- Kate Kearney,
- Kiss me quick and go,
- Kitty Clyde,
- Little Blacksmith,
- Marseilles hymn,
- Miller of the Dee,
- My home in Kentu’k,
- My own native land,
- Nelly Gray,
- Nelly was a lady,
- Old dog Tray,
- Old folks we loved.,
- Our Mary Ann,
- Over the mountain,
- Poor old slave,
- Red, white and blue,
- Root, hog, or die—1, 2, 3 & 4.,
- Row, row,
- Shells of the ocean,
- Song of the sexton,
- Sword of Bunk’r hill,
- Star spangled ban’er,
- The age of progress,
- The lake-side shore,
- The old farm-house,
- The old play-ground,
- The rock of liberty,
- The tempest,
- Twenty years ago,
- Twinkling stars,
- Uncle Sam’s farm,
- Unfurl the banner,
- Wait for the wagon,
- Willie, we’ve missed,
- Willie, roam no more.
No. 2.
- Alice Gray,
- America,
- Banks of Mohawk,
- Be kind to each oth’r,
- Billy Grimes, 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 household,
- Home, sweet home,
- I’ve no mother now,
- I’m going home,
- I’m leaving thee in sorrow,
- I miss thee,
- Irishman’s shanty,
- I wandered by the brook,
- Katy Darling,
- Kathl’n Movourneen,
- Little Katy,
- Mary of wild moor,
- Mabel Clare,
- Mary Aileen,
- Mill May,
- Minnie Moore,
- Minnie dear,
- Mrs. Lofty and I,
- Mr. Finagan,
- My eye and B. Martin,
- My love is a saileur,
- My mother dear,
- My grandma’s advice,
- My mother’s bible,
- Nancy Bell,
- New England,
- Oh! the sea, the sea,
- Old folks are gone,
- Old sideling hill,
- Our boyhood days,
- Our fatherland,
- Peter Gray,
- Rory O’Moore,
- Scorn not thy broth’r,
- Shouldn’t like to tell,
- Somebody’s waiting,
- The farmer sat,
- The farmer’s boy,
- The postboy’s song,
- The quilting party,
- Three bells,
- ’Tis home where the heart is,
- Waiting for the May,
- We stand united,
- Where bright waves,
- What other name,
- What’s home without mother,
- Winter,
- Widow Machree,
- Willie’s on the sea.
No. 3.
- Annie, dear, good-by,
- A sailor’s life for me,
- Answer to Jeannette,
- Bessie was a bride,
- Bonnie Jean,
- Boys of Kilkenny,
- Comic Katy Darling,
- Comic parody,
- Darling Jennie Bell,
- Darling Rosabel,
- Death of An’e Laurie,
- Emigrant’s farewell,
- Ettie May,
- Few days,
- Fine old Eng. Gent.,
- Fine old Irish Gent.,
- Fine old Dutchman,
- Fireman’s death,
- Girl in a calico dress,
- Give ’em string,
- Girl I left behind me,
- Golddigger’s lament,
- Go it while young,
- Hail Columbia,
- Happy Hezekiah,
- I choose to be a daisy,
- Isle of beauty,
- I’ve som’thing sweet,
- I think of old Ireland,
- Jeannette and Jeannot,
- John Jones,
- Jordan is a hard road,
- Kitty Kimo,
- Lather and shave,
- Lager bier song,
- Linda has departed,
- Lilly Bell,
- Love not,
- Man the life-boat,
- My dear old mother,
- My heart’s in Ireland,
- My poor dog Tray,
- Old dog Tray, No. 2,
- Old oaken bucket,
- Old Rosin the beau,
- Old whisky jug,
- Other side of Jordan,
- Over the left,
- Parody—To the west,
- Pirate’s serenade,
- Pop goes the weasel,
- Pretty Jane,
- Rosa Lee,
- Song of locomotive,
- Sparking Sarah Ann,
- The American boy,
- The American girl,
- The Fireman’s boy,
- The Indian hunter,
- Ten o’clock,
- Tilda Horn,
- To the west,
- True blue,
- Uncle Ned,
- Unhappy Jeremiah,
- Villikens and Dinah,
- We miss thee home,
- What’ll Grundy say,
- Woodm’n, spare tree,
- Yellow Texas rose.
No. 4.
- A merry Gipsey girl,
- A national song,
- Ans’er to K. Darling,
- Ben Fisher and wife,
- Bonnie Jamie,
- Broken-hearted Tom,
- By the sad sea-waves,
- Columbia rules sea,
- Come, gang wi’ me,
- Commence, darkies,
- Cottage by the sea,
- Daylight on the sea,
- Don’t cry so, Norah,
- Erin is my home,
- Gal from the south,
- Get out wilderness,
- Harp of Tara’s hall,
- He led her to altar,
- Home, sweet home,
- I am a freeman,
- I’ll hang my harp,
- I’m not myself at all,
- Indian Hunter,
- Indian warr.’s grave,
- I’ve been roaming,
- I wish he’d decide,
- Jane Monroe,
- Jolly Jack, rover,
- Johnny’s for soldier,
- Kate was a little girl,
- Kitty Tyrel,
- Let me kiss for his mother,
- Linda’s gone to Balt.,
- Maud Adair and I,
- Molly Bawn,
- My ain fireside,
- My boyhood’s home,
- Nora, of Kidare,
- Kiss, but never tell,
- Old uncle Edward,
- Paddy on the canal,
- Parody on Unc. Sam,
- Poor old maids,
- Preserve the mariner,
- Ship ahoy,
- Somebody’s courting,
- Song of the farmer,
- Song, Blanche Alpen,
- Sparking Sunday n’t,
- Sprig of shillelah,
- Stand by the flag,
- The engineer’s song,
- The farmer’s boy,
- The hazel dell,
- The little low room,
- The low-backed car,
- The old brown cot,
- The old kirk-yard,
- Terry O’Reilly,
- They don’t wish me home,
- Tom Brown,
- Uncle Gabriel,
- Uncle Tim, the toper,
- We were boys tog’er,
- We’re growing old,
- We’re fond of kissi’g,
- Where are the hopes,
- Wit’n mile of Edin’o,
- Would I were a boy,
- Would I were a girl,
- Would I’re with thee.
No. 5.
- A dollar or two,
- A man’s a man,
- A Yan. ship and crew,
- Angels whisper,
- Auld lang syne,
- Bashful young man,
- Call me pet names,
- Camptown racers,
- Charity,
- Cheer, boys, cheer,
- Comin’ thro’ the rye,
- Days I was hard-up,
- Dermot Astore,
- Dilla Burn,
- Down the burn, Davy,
- Dumbarton’s dell,
- Ever of thee,
- Gently o’er me steals,
- Gum-tree canoe,
- Grave of uncle True,
- Grave of Bonaparte,
- Hark, I hear an angel,
- I offer thee this hand,
- Irish Emig. lament,
- John Anderson,
- Johnny a shoemaker,
- Kind Relations,
- Last w’k I took wife,
- Lass’t loves a sailor,
- Last rose of summer,
- Lily of the west,
- Mary of Argyle,
- Meet me by moonli’t,
- Minute gun at sea,
- Napolitaine,
- Norah McShane,
- Nothing else to do,
- Och, Paddy, is it ye,
- Oft in the stilly n’ht,
- Poor fishermans girl,
- Rat-catcher’s daug’r,
- Rose of Allandale,
- Roll on, silver moon,
- Sambo, I’ve missed,
- Sammy Slap,
- Simon, the cellarer,
- Someth’g to love me,
- Some love to drink,
- Sourkrout and sau’s,
- The gay cavalier,
- The gambler’s wife,
- The ingle side,
- The ivy green,
- The monks of old,
- The musical wife,
- The ocean burial,
- The old arm-chair,
- The watcher,
- Tail iv me coat,
- Thou art gone,
- Thou hast wounded,
- ’Tis midnight hour,
- Twilight dews,
- Umbrella courtship,
- Wake, Dinah, wake,
- Washington,
- We’ll have a dance,
- We met by chance,
- When I saw Nelly,
- When the swallows,
- Whoop de doodle do,
- William of the ferry,
- Will you love me.
No. 6.
- Annie Lisle,
- Beautiful world,
- Be kind to the loved,
- Bloom is on the rye,
- Bobbin’ around,
- Bonnie Dundee,
- Cottage of mother,
- Courting in Conn’t,
- Dearest Mae,
- Dear mother, I come,
- Ella Ree,
- Fairy Dell,
- Far, far upon the sea,
- Female auctioneer,
- Gentle Hallie,
- Gentle Nettie Moore,
- Happy we to-night,
- Hattie Lee,
- He doeth all things,
- Home without sister,
- I can’t call her mot’r,
- I’ll paddle my canoe,
- I’m stand’g by grave,
- Irish jaunting car,
- Is it anybody’s bus’s,
- Jane O’Mally,
- Jenny Lane,
- Joanna Snow,
- Johnny Sands,
- Lilly Dale,
- Little more cider,
- Lords of creation,
- Lulu is our pride,
- Marion Lee,
- Meet me by the br’k,
- Merry sleighride,
- Minnie Clyde,
- Mountaineer’s fare’l,
- Not for gold,
- Not married yet,
- Oh, carry me home,
- Old homestead,
- Old mountain tree,
- Ossian’s serenade,
- Over the river,
- Riding on a rail,
- Sailor boy’s dream,
- Say yes, pussy,
- Silber shining moon,
- Song my mot’r sang,
- Spare the homestead,
- Spirit-voice of Belle,
- Squire Jone’s dau’r,
- The blue Junietta,
- The carrier-dove,
- The child’s wish,
- The maniac,
- The May-queen,
- The miller’s maid,
- The modern belle,
- The strawberry girl,
- The snow-storm,
- Three grains of corn,
- Washington’s grave,
- Where are friends,
- Why chime the bells,
- Why don’t the men,
- Will nobody marry,
- Young recruit.
No. 7.
- A ride I was taking,
- Anchor’s weighed,
- Beautiful Venice,
- Billy Patterson,
- Breeze of the night,
- Bright-eyed Nell,
- Come, Willie dear,
- Deal with me kindly,
- Dixie’s Land, 1 & 2,
- Dolcy Jones,
- Don’t you remember,
- Down in cane-brakes,
- Fairy Belle,
- Farewell, cottage,
- Glendy burk,
- Ho, Gondolier, wake,
- How shall I watch,
- Hush-a-by, baby,
- I love my nat. land,
- I’m a jolly bachelor,
- It is recorded,
- Julianna Johnson,
- Lilly Ray,
- Little Daisy,
- Little Ella,
- Maggie by my side,
- Maggie, pride of vale,
- Mary May,
- Mary’s welcome,
- Massa in cold gro’nd,
- Massa sound sleep’g,
- My brodder Gum,
- My canoe’s on Ohio,
- My old house,
- My mountain home,
- Nelly Bly,
- Newfoundland dog,
- No, thank you, sir,
- Old ironsides,
- Old K. Y. Ky,
- Our Union, r’t or w’g,
- Over the summer sea,
- Paddy Boghree,
- Queen Mary’s escape,
- Revolutionary times,
- Ring de banjo,
- Roy Neill,
- She’s black,
- Some folks,
- Star of my home,
- Take me home to die,
- The evening gun,
- The happy Switzer,
- The home I leave,
- The messenger bird,
- The old stage-coach,
- The pilot,
- The reefer’s song,
- The ship on fire,
- The sleighing glee,
- Under the willow,
- Virginia Belle,
- Way down in Cairo,
- We’re coming, sister,
- Who’ll have me,
- Willie, my brave.
No. 8.
- A life on the ocean,
- Annie of the vale,
- A wet sheet,
- Bonnie Eloise,
- Brightly o’er lake,
- By the lone riverside,
- Campbells are com’g,
- Come by sil’ry brook,
- Come, maiden,
- Down by the river,
- Ella Leene,
- Ellen Bayne,
- Farewell, Lilly dear,
- Farewell, mother,
- Girls aren’t so green,
- Going home to Dixie,
- Good-by, Linda love,
- Happy be thy dreams,
- Hard times,
- Home and friends,
- Home I leave behind,
- I’d be a Gipsey,
- I’d rather be a violet,
- If I had one to love,
- I had a dream,
- I’m o’er young,
- I’m queen of village,
- I’m thinking of thee,
- I see her in dreams,
- Jeanie with the,
- Jennie’s coming o’er,
- Katie’s secret,
- Kinlock of Kinlock,
- Kitty dear,
- Kitty Wells,
- Light of other days,
- List to the mocking,
- Little Jennie Dow,
- Lizzie dies to-night,
- Lone starry hours,
- Long weary day,
- Lost Rosabel,
- Mary Avourneen,
- Meeting of waters,
- Near the banks of,
- Old black Joe,
- Old folks at home,
- Riding in a ra’d keer,
- Rock me to sleep,
- Row, row, brothers,
- Row your boat,
- Scenes brightest,
- She wept her life,
- Sighing for thee,
- Silvery midn’t moon,
- Some one to love,
- Take me to Tennes’e,
- Tapping at window,
- The brave old oak,
- The dream is past,
- The sea, the sea,
- The wild rose,
- The Zingarina,
- ’Tis but a faded flo’er,
- Vive L’America,
- We’ll meet in heaven,
- Western trap’rs song,
- What are wild waves,
- What fair’like music,
- Why have my loved,
- Whistle and I come.
No. 9.
- A maiden’s prayer,
- Basketmaker’s child,
- Banks and braes,
- Be quiet, do,
- Bowld sojer boy,
- Boys, carry me ’long,
- Bonnie new moon,
- Bright moonlit sea,
- Call me not unkind,
- Canadian boat-song,
- Castles in the air,
- Come wh’re moonb’s,
- Come to de gum-tree,
- Come where my love,
- Cruiskeen Lawn,
- Do they think of me,
- Do you remember,
- Down at de barbecue,
- Eulalie,
- Ever be happy,
- Flow gently, Afton,
- Female smuggler,
- Gentle Bessie Gray,
- Grave of Kitty Clyde,
- Hannah at the win’w,
- Harp of wild wind,
- Hark, the vesper-h’n,
- Household clock,
- I breathe my nat. air,
- I dream of mother,
- I’ll be no submissive,
- I’m not so ugly man,
- Jamie’s on the sea,
- Jockey hat,
- Joys we’ve tasted,
- Johnny’s so bashful,
- Jennie’s blue e’e,
- Juanita,
- Kind words,
- Kissing through bars,
- Kiss me good-night,
- Landlord’s pet,
- List to the convent,
- Mary Blane,
- Mine own,
- Mother, I’m thinki’g,
- My mountain home,
- My old Ky. home,
- Nancy Till,
- Negro Boatman song,
- Nettie is no more,
- No one to love,
- Not a star from flag,
- Old schoolhouse,
- Once more on sea,
- Our laddie’s dead,
- Rouse, brothers,
- Shall we know each,
- Sigh in the heart,
- Silence and Tears,
- Silver moonl’t winds,
- Sleeping I dreamed,
- Star of the twilight,
- Teddy O’Neale,
- That’s what’s matter,
- The blarney,
- The captain,
- The miller’s song,
- Three fishers,
- ’Way down in Maine,
- Widow Malone,
- Woman’s resolution.
No. 10.
- Alabama Joe,
- All round my hat,
- Answer of Ben Bolt,
- Away down east,
- Away goes Cuffee,
- Battle-cry of Free’m,
- Beggar girl,
- Billie Boy,
- Bingen on Rhine,
- Bonnie blue flag,
- Bring my bro’r back,
- Buy a broom,
- Call me not back,
- Come back, massa,
- Come, oh come,
- Dear mother, I’ve,
- Fannie Grey,
- Gaffer Grey,
- Gentle Annie Ray,
- High Daddie,
- How are you, con’s,
- I dreamed my boy,
- I know a pair of,
- I know my mother,
- I love the merry,
- I’ll tell nobody,
- I’m coming home,
- I muse on the,
- In chamois’ track,
- Jennie June,
- Jessie, the flower of,
- Katie Bell,
- Keep this Bible,
- Kiss me, darling,
- Lanigan’s ball,
- Larry’s good-by,
- Long, long ago,
- Love me little,
- Make me no gaudy,
- Mister Hill, pray be,
- Miseries of sneez’g,
- Mother would com’t,
- Murmuring sea,
- My Emma Louise,
- Nigger, put down,
- Oh, I’ll wear a un’m,
- Oh, sing to me,
- Rally round the flag,
- Rocked in the cradle,
- Roses lie along the,
- Stars and stripes,
- Stop dat knockin’,
- Sunny hours of ch’d,
- Switzer’s song of,
- Tell mother I die,
- Things that never,
- Weeping, sad and,
- Werry pekooliar,
- We will not retreat,
- Wouldn’t you like,
- When this cruel war,
- Who’ll care for mo’r,
- Why do I weep for,
- Will he never come.
No. 11.
- A curious circumst’e,
- Bill and I,
- Boy with the auburn,
- Carrie Lee,
- Darling Nora’s mine,
- Dear mother, call,
- Evangeline,
- Every household has,
- Fairy dreams,
- Gay and happy,
- God bless you,
- Grafted into the,
- Grandmother told,
- How are you, tele’h,
- I loved that dear old,
- I remember the hour,
- I wish he’d tell me,
- Jennie Lorn,
- Katy Avourneen,
- Kind friends are,
- King Cotton,
- Little Major,
- Love’s perfect cure,
- Mother, dearest, I,
- Mother kissed me in,
- My country so dear,
- My little valley home,
- My love is on the,
- No Irish need apply,
- Oh, give us a navy,
- Old John Jones,
- Old Jessy,
- On the field of battle,
- On the shores of,
- Our country and flag,
- Shall we meet again,
- The bachelor’s lam’t,
- The day mother died,
- The nation shall not,
- The regular cure,
- The song of the,
- The rhinoceros,
- The rock beside the,
- The Virginia rose’d,
- They pray for us at,
- ’Tis midnight on the,
- Tom Thumb’s wed’g,
- Trust to luck,
- Was my brother in,
- Willow cot,
- Would I were with,
- You say I know not.
No. 12.
- Ah, he kissed me,
- A little farm well,
- All’s well,
- A vesper song,
- Babylon is fallen,
- Beautiful Rose,
- Bread and cheese,
- Brother’s fainting,
- Cousin Jedediah,
- Daisy Deane,
- Dream on, Lillie,
- Ella Clay,
- Footsteps on the,
- He’s gone to the,
- I’m going to fight,
- Isabel, lost Isabel,
- I sailed in the good,
- Jack on the green,
- Jenny Brown and I,
- Johnny is my darl’g,
- Johnny Schmoker,
- Just before the,
- Katy’s letter,
- Maid of Llanwellyn,
- Merry, little, gray,
- Nellie lost and found,
- Oh, are ye sleeping,
- Oh, bless me, mo’r,
- Ole Dan Tucker,
- Our Captain’s last,
- Our sweethearts,
- Robin Adair,
- Singular dreams,
- Sleeping for the flag,
- Song of a thousand,
- The bell-ringer,
- The blue jay’s me’y,
- The coat of other.
Why these works (Beadle’s Dime Books) are popular, is a problem, quite as much for the moralist and the student of National character as for the critic. It is a satisfaction that, being so, they are, without exception, so far as we can judge, unexceptionably moral. * * They do not, even obscurely, pander to vice, or excite the passions.—North American Review For July, 1864.