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Hymns for the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII
Hymns
one or more hymns are available in a musical format.

Dedicated by special permission totheir Majesties
THE KING & QUEEN

Dedicated, by Special Permission, to THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
Hymns for the Coronation
OF HIS MAJESTYKing Edward
VII.
ALSO THENATIONAL ANTHEM,
With a new and special verse.

Price complete with Music, 2d., or 14/- per 100 net.
The Words separately, ½d., or 3/- per 100 net.
The Royal Edition with music, on thick paper in elegant Cloth, Price 1/- net.
SKEFFINGTON & ...
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Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)
Work songs
Collection of songs and lyrics by Lehrer, published on his website
Tom Lehrer Songs – Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer.

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Child Ballads
Patriotic songs
The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century."Child Ballads," in
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Patriotic songs
The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century."Child Ballads," in
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads

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Works in this category were published before January 1, 1931, and are in thepublic domainworldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 23,367 total.

The following 47 files are in this category, out of 47 total.
The Cruel Mother
Children's songs
AND there she's leand her back to a thorn,
Refrain:
Oh and alelladay, oh and alelladay
And there she has her baby born.
Refrain:
Ten thousand times good night and be wi thee
She has houked a grave ayont the sun,
And there she has buried the sweet babe in.
And she's gane back to her father's ha,
She's counted the leelest maid o them a'.

"O look not sae sweet, my bonie babe,
Gin ye smyle sae, ye'll smyle me dead."
National anthems
Patriotic songs
National anthems are songs that represent or symbolize a nation. This page lists the national anthems of current and former sovereign nations as well as unrecognized nations and nationalist movements. This page was constructed with assistance and cooperation withnationalanthems. info.

Anthems of other Australian entities

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National anthems of other Canadian entities:

National anthems of other French entities:

Anthems of disputed territories:

National anthe...
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Work songs
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School Song Knapsack
Hymns
Fair Song(Wait for the Wagon)106

Here’s Where Scholars do Their Best71

Just Before the Battle, Mother74

Make Hay While the Sun Shines21

Michigan’s Semi-Centennial Song94

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus131

Swinging ’Neath the Apple Tree133

Tenting on the Old Camp Ground79

This World is What We Make It36

Vacation Song(When Johnny Comes Marching Home)26

When Johnny Comes Marching Home80

Why Don’t Parents Visit the School?32

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161
Patriotic songs
National anthem of the United States, by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931. It uses the words of the poem
Defence of Fort Mc
Henryby
Francis Scott Key, and is sung to the tune, attributed to
John Stafford Smith, of the popular English drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven."

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O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
Francis Scott Key
Fred Waring
Defence of Fort M'Henry broadside. jpg
Star-spangled banner. ogg

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LC Auth
Sea songs
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The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen
Folk songs
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The Caverns of the Grave I've seen,
And these I shew'd to England's Queen.
But now the Caves of Hell I view,
Who shall I dare to shew them to?5
What mighty Soul in Beauty's form
Shall dauntless View the Infernal storm?
Egremont's Countess can controll
The flames of Hell that round me roll;9
If she refuse, I still go on
Till the Heavens & Earth are gone,
Still admir'd by Noble minds,
Follow'd by Envy on the winds,13
Re-engrav'd Time after Time,
Ever in their Youthful prime.
My Designs unch...
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A Cradle Song
Children's songs
A Cradle Song
Sleep, Sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night;
Sleep, Sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit & weep.
Sweet Babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
As thy softest limbs I feel,
Smiles as of the morning steal
O’er thy cheek & o’er thy breast
Where thy little heart doth rest.
O, the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep.
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful lightnings break.
F...
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I heard an Angel singing
Folk songs
* * *I heard an Angel singing
When the day was springing,‘Mercy, Pity, Peace,
Is the world’s release.’Thus he sung all day
Over the new mown hay,
Till the sun went down
And haycocks looked brown.
I heard a Devil curse
Over the heath & the furze,‘Mercy could be no moreif there was nobody poor;‘And pity no more could be
If all were as happy as we.’At his curse the sun went down,
And the heavens gave a frown.
Down pour’d the heavy rain
Over the new-reap’d grain;
And Miserie’s incr...
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Why was Cupid a Boy
Drinking songs
* * *WHY was Cupid a boy,
And why a boy was he?
He should have been a girl,
For aught that I can see.5
For he shoots with his bow,
And the girl shoots with her eye,
And they both are merry and glad,
And laugh when we do cry.
And to make Cupid a boy10
Was the Cupid girl’s mocking plan;
For a boy can’t interpret the thing
Till he is become a man.[2]And then he’s so pierc’d with cares,
And wounded with arrowy smarts,15
That the whole business of his life
Is to pick out the heads of the dar...
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Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau
Sea songs
* * *Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:
Mock on, Mock on: 'tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.
And every sand becomes a Gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking Eye,
But still in Israel's paths they shine.
The Atoms of Democritus
And Newton's Particles of light
Are sands upon the Red sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
I saw a chapel all of gold
Hymns
* * *I saw a chapel all of gold
That none did dare to enter in;
And many weeping stood without,
Weeping, mourning, worshipping.
I saw a serpent rise between
The white pillars of the door,
And he forc’d & forc’d & forc’d –Down the golden hinges tore,
And along the pavement sweet,
Set with pearls & rubies bright,
All his slimy length he drew,
Till upon the altar white
Vomiting his poison out
On the bread & on the wine.
So I turn’d into a sty
And laid me down among the swine.
To Helen
Hymns
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me hometo the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!
A Dream Within a Dream
Hymns
Takethis kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the lessgone?
Allthat we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!
O G...
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Eldorado
Sea songs
Gailybedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—This knight so bold—And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—"Shadow," said he,"Where can it be—This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"The shade replied,—"If you seek fo...
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