Pull away for Hobhouse!
[London? : s.n.,
1819]
Dated from internal evidence - in 1819 John Cam Hobhouse contested the parliamentary seat of Westminster, which had become vacant after the suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly. He stood as a radical, supported by his father and by Sir Francis Burdett, but was defeated on 3 March by the whig George Lamb, who is also mentioned in the text of the ballad - information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' online.
First line reads: Come cheer up Electors, 'tis Liberty's call.
In one column.
Tune: - Hearts of oak.
Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869
Lamb, George, 1784-1834
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