The Arkansas traveller's songster
Subtitle: containing the celebrated story of the Arkansas traveller, with the music for violin or piano, and also an extensive and choice collection of new and popular comic and sentimental songs
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Published: 1864
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Copyright date: 1864
Subjects: Songsters; Popular music; Texts
Notes: Includes music for several numbers.

Date of publication inferred from copyright notice on title page verso.

Access to portions of this material may be restricted.

In English.

Staff notation.

Forms part of the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance and Music (Harvard Theatre Collection).

Bound in original illustrated paper covers; in prefab, 19 cm.
Table of contents: title: The Arkansas traveller / by Mose Case [with explanation and music]; title: The Dutch musician : as sung by Tony Pastor; title: The neutral English gentleman [air: Fine old English gentleman]; title: The seven days' fight [air: Louisiana lowlands]; title: Money is your only friend [air: Green grow the rushes, O!]; title: The theatre on a benefit night : or, The Bowery Third tier [air: Paddy's curiosity-shop]; title: All mankind are worms [air: Bow, wow, wow!]; title: The wedded bachelor; title: Paddy O'Flanagan; title: Katty O'Rann; title: Philip the falconer; title: She was sister to the angels; title: Jake Schneider's daughter : a parody on Lord Ullin's daughter / by John F. Poole; title: My own native land; title: The shield, the fishball, and the sewing-machine : or, Love arsenic, and percussion-caps [air: In the merry month of May]; title: Little more cider; title: Kathleen O'Regan; title: A little song of little things : sung by the late John Winans, at the National and Bowery Theatres [air: Fine old Irish gentleman]; title: Tit for tat [air: The tickling-man]; title: Highland Mary; title: Am I not fondly thine own?; title: I'd be a blue-bottle : sung by Mr. J. Reeve, in Buckston'e burlett, "Billy Taylor" [air: I'd be a butterfly]; title: A very good hand at it : sung by William Reeve, comedian and comic vocalist [air: Jeremey Diddler]; title: Chiselling the burial-club [air: Paddy's curiosity-shop]; title: Yacob Schnapps and Peder Schpike : a parody on "Robin Ruff and Gaffer Green" / by John F. Poole; title: The Indian's prayer; title: Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you; title: The humbugged husband : as sung by the Hutchinson family [air: Alice Grey]; title: The sailor-boy's good-by [air: Woodman, spare that tree]; title: Root, hog, or die; title: Don Giovanni / done into rhyme by W.T. Moncrieff [air: A frog he would a wooing go]; title: Annie Laurie; title: Rory O'More; title: The fine ould Irish gintleman; title: Prayer-books and corkscrews [air: Derry down]; title: Jane O'Malley; title: Lodgings in Pat McGaradie's : sung by Fred May [air: Barney McFinnegan]; title: The banks of Claudy; title: Sall Brill and squinting will [air: The girl I left behind me]; title: Flow gently sweet Afton; title: The landlady of France [air: Yankee Doodle]; title: The hazel-dell; title: I'll be no submissive wife; title: No! No! : the celebrated duett in the burletta of "No" : as sung by James Dunn and Mrs. W.G. Jones at the New Bowery Theatre [air: Isabel]; title: Bachelor Barney O'Neil : sung by William W. Reeve, comedian and comic vocalist, at the theatres and music-halls [air: Oh dear, what can the matter be?]; title: The gay little postman [air: Mr. Walker]; title: Meet me, Miss Molly Malone : a parody on "Meet me by moonlight alone] : sung by Geo. C. Edeson, comedian and vocalist; title: Doctor O'Toole and his illigant school : as sung by Ed Berry, comedian and vocalist [air: Derry down]; title: Higgins's ball : an Irish narrative in rhyme as sung by Fred May [air: Paddy O'Carroll]; title: Parody on "Mother, I've come home to die" : an original conglomeration of titles / by E.T. Johnston; title: Social sentiments : or, Toasts for all times.