Collection:Song Broadsides
Item ID: 002309-BROAD
Accession Number: 94-017 Goldstein
Title: The butcher boy of Baltimore / words and music by Harry Tofflin.
Additional Title: Butcher boy.
Creator: Tofflin, Harry.
Date:[1865-188?]
Publisher: Wm. J. Schmidt.
Place of Publication:Baltimore, MD
Subject: Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century. | Songs -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Popular music -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Butchers -- Songs and music -- Texts. | Tragedy in Music -- Texts. | Death -- Songs and music -- Texts.
Physical Description:1 broadside (1 item on 1 sheet) ; ca. 23 x 14 cm.
Location:binder 12, item 66
Series:kg M007
Notes:Without music.
Date based on sheet music copyright, printer address in city directories, same-title publications in hand, textual references, and/or matching borders & fonts.
At head of song sheet: "The Great Pioneer of Penny Ballads".
Text of song in four eight-line stanzas.
At foot of song sheet: "Wm. J. Schmidt, 2507 W. North Ave. Publisher of sweet gems, chosen from . . .â€
CPM song sheet # 000805-BROAD is same except where "Jersey-City" replaces "Baltimore."
Authorized personal name hdgs verified in OCLC.
This edition not in Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets.
See variant editions: 000805-BROAD & 001707-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:
In Baltimore City where I did dwell.
Notation:Lyrics only