Brennen on the moor. - Record Detail

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Collection:Song Broadsides

Item ID: 001282-BROAD

Accession Number: 94-017 Goldstein

Title: Brennen on the moor.

Date:[1865-1866]

Publisher: Johnson & Cartlitch

Place of Publication:Philadelphia, PA

Subject: Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century. | Songs -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Popular music -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Songs, Irish -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Irish outlaws -- Songs and music -- Texts.

Physical Description:1 broadside ; ca. 23 x 15 cm.

Location:binder 6, item 25

Series:kg 21/47

Notes:Johnson & Cartlitch is listed at 18 North Tenth St., as Cartlitch & Johnson, in Philadelphia directories for 1865 and 1866.
Without music.
At head of song sheet: "Johnson & Cartlitch, Song Publishers, 18 North Tenth St. Phila."
Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas, with a chorus following the 1st.
At foot of song sheet: "J. H. Johnson, Stationer, 7 North Tenth St., Philadelphia."
Variant of Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets #200.
See variant edition: 001701-BROAD.

Please see the Kenneth S. Goldsein American Song Broadside website at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/Broadsides/index.html for more information.

First Line:First line:
It's of a fearless Irishman a long story I shall tell.

Notation:Lyrics only