Victorian Street Ballads: A Selection of Popular Ballads Sold in the Street in the Nineteenth CenturyWilliam Henderson (Writer on ballads) |
Contents
A New Song 1829 | 26 |
Poor Black Bess | 32 |
The Irish New Policeman | 38 |
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