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Sheet Music

Songs of the Gay Nineties.

Call Number

  • R 784.8 S6985 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : Amsco Music Publishing, c1934.

Physical Description

160 p. ; 31 cm.

Contents

  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder
  • Ain't dat a shame
  • Always take mother's advice
  • And her golden hair was hanging down her back
  • Any rags?
  • The band played on
  • Ben Bolt (Sweet Alice)
  • A bicycle built for two, (Daisy Bell)
  • Bill Bailey, won't you please come home
  • Billy boy
  • The bowery
  • A boy's best friend is his mother
  • Come home, Father
  • Comrades
  • Dad's a millionaire.
  • (cont.) Down went McGinty
  • Dreaming
  • Emmet's lullaby
  • Grandfather's clock
  • Hello central, give me heaven
  • I don't want to play in your yard
  • In the evening by the moonlight
  • The Irish jubilee
  • I've a longing in my heart for you, Louise
  • I've been working on the railroad
  • I've worked eight hours this day
  • Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes
  • Just tell them that you saw me
  • Kathleen Mavourneen
  • The letter edged in black
  • The letter that never came
  • Little Annie Rooney
  • Lovely evening.
  • (cont.) The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
  • May Irwin's frog song
  • May Irwin's bully song
  • Molly O!
  • Mother pin a rose on me
  • My dad's the engineer
  • My gal is a high born lady
  • My sweetheart's the man in the moon
  • On a saturday night
  • Only one girl in the world for me
  • Over the hill to the poorhouse
  • Pal of my dreams
  • Peek-a-boo
  • The picture that is turned toward the wall
  • Say "Au revoir" but not "Goodbye"
  • She may have seen better days
  • She's more to be pitied than censured
  • She was happy till she met you.
  • (cont.) Sing again that sweet refrain
  • Sleep baby sleep
  • Some day I'll wander back again
  • The sunshine of paradise alley
  • Sweet Marie
  • Then I'd be satisfied with life
  • There is a tavern in the town
  • Throw him down, McCloskey
  • The vacant chair
  • Way down yonder in the corn field
  • We never speak as we pass by
  • What would you take for me Papa
  • When the robins nest again
  • Where did you get that hat
  • Where is my wandering boy tonight
  • While strolling in the park one day
  • Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder
  • You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

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