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Songs of a Savoyard

Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

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Author
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911
Credits
Transcribed from the 1920 Macmillan and Co edition of “The Bab Ballads”, also from “Fifty Bab Ballads” 1884 George Routledge and Sons edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Songs, English -- Texts
Category
Text
eBook-No.
934
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/934
Release Date
June 1, 1997
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Songs of a Savoyard
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.THE DARNED MOUNSEER
  4. 4.THE ENGLISHMAN
  5. 5.THE DISAGREEABLE MAN
  6. 6.THE COMING BY-AND-BY
  7. 7.THE HIGHLY RESPECTABLE GONDOLIER
  8. 8.THE FAIRY QUEEN’S SONG
  9. 9.IS LIFE A BOON
  10. 10.THE MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL
  11. 11.THE HEAVY DRAGOON
  12. 12.PROPER PRIDE
  13. 13.THE POLICEMAN’S LOT
  14. 14.THE BAFFLED GRUMBLER
  15. 15.THE HOUSE OF PEERS
  16. 16.A MERRY MADRIGAL
  17. 17.THE DUKE AND THE DUCHESS
  18. 18.EHEU FUGACES—!
  19. 19.THEY’LL NONE OF ’EM BE MISSED
  20. 20.GIRL GRADUATES
  21. 21.BRAID THE RAVEN HAIR
  22. 22.THE WORKING MONARCH
  23. 23.THE APE AND THE LADY
  24. 24.ONLY ROSES
  25. 25.THE ROVER’S APOLOGY
  26. 26.AN APPEAL
  27. 27.THE REWARD OF MERIT
  28. 28.THE MAGNET AND THE CHURN
  29. 29.THE FAMILY FOOL
  30. 30.SANS SOUCI
  31. 31.A RECIPE
  32. 32.THE MERRYMAN AND HIS MAID
  33. 33.THE SUSCEPTIBLE CHANCELLOR
  34. 34.WHEN A MERRY MAIDEN MARRIES
  35. 35.THE BRITISH TAR
  36. 36.A MAN WHO WOULD WOO A FAIR MAID
  37. 37.THE SORCERER’S SONG
  38. 38.THE FICKLE BREEZE
  39. 39.THE FIRST LORD’S SONG
  40. 40.WOULD YOU KNOW?
  41. 41.SPECULATION
  42. 42.AH ME!
  43. 43.THE DUKE OF PLAZA-TORO
  44. 44.THE ÆSTHETE
  45. 45.SAID I TO MYSELF, SAID I
  46. 46.SORRY HER LOT
  47. 47.THE CONTEMPLATIVE SENTRY
  48. 48.THE PHILOSOPHIC PILL
  49. 49.BLUE BLOOD
  50. 50.THE JUDGE’S SONG
  51. 51.WHEN I FIRST PUT THIS UNIFORM ON
  52. 52.SOLATIUM
  53. 53.A NIGHTMARE
  54. 54.DON’T FORGET!
  55. 55.THE SUICIDE’S GRAVE
  56. 56.HE AND SHE
  57. 57.THE MIGHTY MUST
  58. 58.A MIRAGE
  59. 59.THE GHOSTS’ HIGH NOON
  60. 60.THE HUMANE MIKADO
  61. 61.WILLOW WALY!
  62. 62.LIFE IS LOVELY ALL THE YEAR
  63. 63.THE USHER’S CHARGE
  64. 64.THE GREAT OAK TREE
  65. 65.KING GOODHEART
  66. 66.SLEEP ON!
  67. 67.THE LOVE-SICK BOY
  68. 68.POETRY EVERYWHERE
  69. 69.HE LOVES!
  70. 70.TRUE DIFFIDENCE
  71. 71.THE TANGLED SKEIN
  72. 72.MY LADY
  73. 73.ONE AGAINST THE WORLD
  74. 74.PUT A PENNY IN THE SLOT
  75. 75.GOOD LITTLE GIRLS
  76. 76.LIFE
  77. 77.LIMITED LIABILITY
  78. 78.ANGLICISED UTOPIA
  79. 79.AN ENGLISH GIRL
  80. 80.A MANAGER’S PERPLEXITIES
  81. 81.OUT OF SORTS
  82. 82.HOW IT’S DONE
  83. 83.A CLASSICAL REVIVAL
  84. 84.THE PRACTICAL JOKER
  85. 85.THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
  86. 86.HER TERMS
  87. 87.THE INDEPENDENT BEE
  88. 88.THE DISCONCERTED TENOR
  89. 89.THE PLAYED-OUT HUMORIST

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