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In Memory of William Bray, More Commonly Known "Billy" Bray. Born 1794. Died 1868

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A song praising a man's pious life.
Innocent Mirth

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A song about funny things in life.
In the Navy

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A song praising sailors for protecting their homeland.
In the Sun

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A man has many mishaps involving things named the Sun.
Invitation to Sunday Schools

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Religious education
I Once had a Heart

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A heart broken woman finds a new lover.
Ips, Gips, and Johnson

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A man is killed by the woman he rescues after being confronted by her robber friends.
Irish Divorce

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Troubled marriage has a troubling end
Irish Immigrant

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An Irish man immigrates after his wife and child died.
Irish Stranger

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Lamenting isolation from Ireland
I shall be Married on Monday Morning

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A maiden is eager to be married.
I shall be Married on Monday Morning

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A maiden is eager to be married.
I should like to Marry

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A woman is picky about who she marries
I should very much like to Know

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A woman wants to know the identity of her admirer.
Isle of Beauty

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Thinking of home while at sea
Isle of Beauty

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Leaving ones homeland
Is there a Heart

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Dependent on women and love
Is There a Heart That Never Loved?

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Scorn of those who resist a woman's gentleness.
Is There Anything Else You'd Like?

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A man accommodates those who ask for his generosity.
I Stood Amid the Glittering Throng

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A man remembers a dance with a country girl.
It is not on the Battlefield

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Would rather die in a lovers arms than on a battlefield
I've Journey'd Over Many Lands

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Memory of his love sustains his journeys
Ivy Green

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Survival and persistence of ivy
Jack and the Bear Skin

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Jack hunts bears in the Baltic Sea and returns with a skin to prove himself to his love
Jack Rag

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Jack performing and imitating famed deeds for money or applause
Jack Robinson

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Jack Robinson returns from sea looking for his love, Polly Gray
Jack's the Lad

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Jack takes pleasure in fighting, drinking, dancing and kissing
Jack's the Lad

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A poem about a lively sailor.
Jack Tar's Drunken Frolic in Wapping

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A sailor is tricked into sleeping with a corpse and has his money stolen.
Jack Williams

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Man steals for a greedy and ungrateful woman
James and Flora United

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A woman disguises herself as a man and sets sail with her lover.
Jeannot's Answer to Jeannette

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A soldier promises to be true to his lover upon his return.
Jemmy's Farewell

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A departing sailor gives his love a ring.
Jesus, Justice, and Sinner

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Conversation between Justice, Jesus and a Sinner
Joan's Ale was New

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Procession of men drinking Joan's ale
Jockey and Jenny's Trip to the Fair

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A couple sneak out to go to a fair and fall in love.
Jockey to the Fair

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A young couple sneak out to a fair.
Jock of Hazledean

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Woman's love for the Jock of Hazledean
Joe the Marine

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Brave British Joe leaves Polly, his wife, for battle
John Adwire Anglanna

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A man talks to a beautiful woman
John and Marry Ann's Discussion of Matrimony

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A couple make up after a fight.
John Bull, all a-Gog

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Nationalistic piece concerning British might and the Napoleonic Wars
John Bull and His Ally

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A song on the British and French alliance for the Crimean War
John Bull's Return from France

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A song on the British fleeing France during war.
John Mitchell's Return

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Song concerning Irish home rule and refusal to include an Irishman in the British House of Commons
Johnny Doyle

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A woman is faithful to her forced marriage.
John Peel : a New Hunting Song

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Hunting song concerning the characher of John Peel, based on 18th century British farmer and huntsman
Jolly Young Waterman

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Carefree boatman is happy in life