Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

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OUR FAMILIAR SONGS. POOR TOM.
This song of Dibdin's was composed for his entertainment of " The Waterman," one of the series he gave in his own theatre. One can hardly sing it without recalling Silas Wegg's unspeakably ridiculous application of it, when he dropped into poetry in Boffin's Bower.