BAB BALLADS AND SAVOY SONGS
by
W. H. GILBERT
Philadelphia Henry Altemus
[Illustration: BAB BALLADS AND SAVOY SONGS
[Illustration]
CONTENTS
The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
Captain Reece
The Bishop and the Busman
The Folly of Brown
The Three Kings of Chickeraboo
The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo
To the Terrestrial Globe
General John
Sir Guy the Crusader
King Borria Bungalee Boo
The Troubadour
The Force of Argument
Only a Dancing Girl
The Sensation Captain
The Periwinkle Girl
Bob Polter
Gentle Alice Brown
Ben Allah Achmet
The Englishman
The Disagreeable Man
The Modern Major-General
The Heavy Dragoon
Only Roses
They'll None of 'Em Be Missed
The Policeman's Lot
An Appeal
Eheu Fugaces--!
A Recipe
The First Lord's Song
When a Merry Maiden Marries
The Suicide's Grave
He and She
The Lord Chancellor's Song
Willow Waly
The Usher's Charge
King Goodheart
The Tangled Skein
Girl Graduates
The Ape and the Lady
Sans Souci
The British Tar
The Coming Bye and Bye
The Sorcerer's Song
Speculation
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. Gilbert
- 2: And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite
- 3: And the bo'sun tight and a midshipmite
- 4: Good Captain Reece Beatified The Mantelpiece
- 5: Illustration THE BISHOP AND THE BUSMAN
- 6: And keep their good promoter going
- 7: The three kings of chickeraboo
- 8: Declare a war with Chickeraboo
- 9: Were General John and Private James
- 10: Sir Guy was a doughty crusader
- 11: Illustration KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO
- 12: But haughty Pish Tush Pooh Bah Said
- 13: To Turniptopville by the Sea This elegant nobleman went
- 14: Morell only answered Of course
- 15: When this was told to Captain Todd
- 16: And His underclothing pewter
- 17: Polter reckoned him A bogy rose and called his name
- 18: If you abjure the social toast
- 19: I will nab this gay young sorter
- 20: You Turks are so extremely hasty
- 21: I am the very model of a modern Major Gineral
- 22: Take of these elements all that are fusible
- 23: With worldly thought untainted
- 24: By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee
- 25: For he's modest and afraid Hey
- 26: I'm a man of propertee Hey
- 27: We can never Straighten out life's tangled skein
- 28: Illustration THE COMING BYE AND BYE
- 29: If he'll only look in On the resident Djinn
- 30: Well connected Warrior
- 31: When i first put this uniform on
- 32: I can set a braggart quailing with a quip
- 33: A diffident nature's the worst
- 34: Illustration THE HIGHLY RESPECTABLE GONDOLIER
- 35: Which paralyzed the Parley voo
- 36: Of course you will pooh pooh whatever's fresh and new
- 37: And I've nothing whatever to grumble at
- 38: Or we run on little errands for the Ministers of State
- 39: Illustration THE MAGNET AND THE CHURN
- 40: Upon thy breast My loving head would rest
- 41: Annie besant an autobiography
- 42: With 125 engravings by Maurice Leloir
- 43: With 49 illustrations by John Tenniel
- 44: Selections from the works of Professor Henry Drummond
- 45: 18 the impregnable rock of holy scripture
- 46: 19 the legend of sleepy hollow
- 47: 5 the idle thoughts of an idle fellow
- 48: A study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm
- 49: AMERICAN POLITICS non Partisan