Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

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

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THE BOWLD SOJER BOY.
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THE CORK LEG.
Of this old air, we only know that Jonathan Blewitt blew it, and a wild hurricane tie made of it, too. He also blew various other airs which are much more zephyr-like. He received his first inspiration of any air whatever in London, in the year 1782, and breathed his last air in 1853, having been in the mean while, for some years, director of the {loyal Theatre of Dublin.