Thirty-six of the best Irish and Irish-American songs, reprinted with complete lyrics and piano arrangements, most of them with their original sheet music covers. Among them are Thomas Moore's The Minstrel Boy; the patriotic The Wearing of the Green; and popular favorites such as Danny Boy and My Wild Irish Rose.
INTRODUCTION
THE BAND PLAYED ON
Words: John F. Palmer. Music Charles B. Ward
"BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS"
Words: Thomas Moore. Music: Anon
COME BACK TO ERIN
Words & Music: Claribel (Charlotte Alington Barnard).
DANNY BOY
Words: Fredrick E. Weatherly. Music: Anon
DOWN WENT MCGINTY
Words & Music: Joesph Flynn
"DRILL, YE TARRIERS, DRILL"
Words & Music: Thomas Casey (?)
THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS
Words: Thomas Moore. Music: Anon
HARRIGAN
Words & Music: George M. Cohan
HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY?
Words & Music: C. W. Murphy and Will Letters; Amer. Version by William J McKenna.
"I'LL TAKE YOU HOME AGAIN, KATHLEEN"
Words & Music: Thomas P. Westendorf.
I'VE GOT RINGS ON MY FINGERS
Words: R. P.Weston and F.J. Barnes. Music: Maurice Scott
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN
Words: Marion Crawford. Music: Fredrick Nicholls Crouch.
THE KERRY DANCE
Words & Music: James Lyman Molloy
KILLARNEY
Words: Edmund Falconer (Edmund O'Rourke) Music: Michael William Balfe
LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY
Words & Music: Michael Nolan
A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN
Words: J. Keirn Brennan Music: Ernest R. Ball.
MACUSHLA
Words: Josephine V. Rowe. Music: Dermot Macmurrough
THE MINSTREL BOY
Words: Thomas Moore. Music: Anon
MOLLY BAWN
Words & music: Samuel Lover
MOLLY MALONE
Words & music: Anon
MOTHER MACHREE
Words: Rida Johnson Young. Music: Chauncey Olcott and Ernest R. Ball
THE MULLIGAN GUARD
Words: Edward Harrigan. Music: David Braham.
MY WILD IRISH ROSE
Words & music: Chauncey Olcott.
OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT
Words: Thomas Moore. Music: Anon
PEG O' MY HEART
Words: Alfred Bryan. Music Fred Fischer
THE PRETTY GIRL MILKING HER COW (COLLEEN DHAS CRUTHEN NA MOE)
Words & music: Anon (arr. George Alexander Lee)
THE ROSE OF TRALEE
Words: C. Mordaunt Spencer. Music: Charles W. Grover.
SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY
Words & music: Maude Nugent.
THROW HIM DOWN MCCLOSKEY
Words & music: John W. Kelly
TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
Words: Thomas Moore. Music: Anon
TOO-RA-LOO-RA-LOO-RAL (THAT'S AN IRISH LULABY
Words & music: James Royce Shannon
THE WEARING OF THE GREEN
Words: Dion Boucicault. Music: Anon
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
"Words: Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr. Music: Ernest R. B
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
Words & music: Louis Lambert (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore)
WHERE THE RIVER SHANNON FLOWS
Words & music: James I. Russell
WHO THREW THE OVERALLS IN MISTRESS MURPHY'S CHOWDER?
Words & music: George L. Geifer
