TIBB’S POPULAR SONGBOOK. No. 1
1887. Undated however Vol 2 was published 1888 and refers to the success of ‘last year’s’ publication.
Price 2/-
Printed by Batty & Chalcraft of Redfern.
Songbook has printed orange cover approx 18cmx12cm
| SONG |
TUNE |
FIRST LINE |
COMMENT |
| Our Oarsman |
Our Jack’s Come Home Today |
– |
Bill Beach’s return from Europe |
| The Bushy in Town |
The Spider & The Fly |
Have you noticed in the city |
bushman in Sydney |
| The Chinamen |
Jog Along |
With our present legislation |
about Federation debate |
| Squatters and the Reduction |
Jog Along |
– |
Shearer’s strike |
| Review Of The Year |
Pulling Against The Stream |
This year’s been one continuous trouble |
– |
| The Jackaroo |
Skidmore Guards |
If you want a situation |
– |
| Australia’s Happy Land |
Eluren In The Rhine |
The shearing’s nearly over |
– |
| The Squatter’s Defeat |
Shan Van Vaght |
If you give me but a hearing |
– |
| The Giraffe |
Irish Emigrant |
– |
– |
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TIBB’S POPULAR AUSTRALIAN SONGS & POEMS. No.2
1888 dated
Batty & Chalcraft, Redfern.
‘To be obtained of all booksellers, stationers, hawkers etc throughout the Colony or direct from the author. G Tibbs’
This issue does not nominate tunes and sees Tibbs moving towards doggerel. Tibb’s expresses his Scottish heritage in a song composed for NYE titled ‘My Heart’s At Hame This Nicht’
| SONG |
TUNE |
FIRST LINE |
COMMENT |
| To Shear At The Peak |
– |
I’ve shore on the Murray, Paroo and Macquarie
Blackall and Barkaldon (sic), Tambo and Retreat |
– |
| The Shearer’s Union |
– |
The shearings o’er and with many the trouble ahead, for a time at least |
– |
| The Physic |
– |
Oh, Allison, Oh, Allison, and did you feel the pain |
This song mentions Sydney suburbs |
| A Shilling Please For Ireland |
– |
This is the merry Christmas time |
– |
| Metrical History of New South Wales |
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– |
Note that this is not a Tibb’s composition |
| Note: The last section of the songster includes several songs from the first volume however; Our Oarsman notes that it was sung by Marion Saunders at the Olympic Theatre on the return of Bill Beach |
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