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WHEN THE HEART OF A MAN (_D.C._ 24, _O.M.F._ iii. 14)
Words by _Gay_ (_Beggar's Opera_). Set to a seventeenth-century air.
If the heart of a man is depressed with care, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears, Like the notes of a fiddle she sweetly, sweetly Raises our spirits and charms our ears.
WHEN THE STORMY WINDS (_D.C._ 21, _D. & S._ 23)
Words by _Campbell_, who may have taken them from an earlier source. See 'You Gentlemen of England.'
WHITE SAND (_L.D._ i. 32)
An old glee. See p. 106.
WHO Pa.s.sES BY THIS ROAD SO LATE (_L.D._ i. 1)
(Blandois' Song.)
Words by _C. d.i.c.kens_. _H.R.S. Dalton._
An old French children's singing game. d.i.c.kens' words are a literal translation. See _Eighty Singing Games_ (Kidson and Moffat).
WHO RAN TO CATCH ME WHEN I FELL (_O.C.S._ 38)
From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
WIFE SHALL DANCE AND I WILL SING, SO MERRILY Pa.s.s THE DAY
From 'Begone, dull care' (q.v.).
WILL WATCH, THE BOLD SMUGGLER (_Out of Season_) _John Davy._
YANKEE DOODLE (_U.T._, _A.N._)
Mr. F. Kidson has traced this to 'A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs,' published in Glasgow by James Aird, c. 1775 or 1776.
YET LOV'D I AS MAN NE'ER LOVED (_O.C.S._ 50)
Words by _William Mee_. _Millard._
From 'Alice Gray.'
She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine, But her heart it is another's, It never can be mine.
Yet lov'd I as ne'er man loved, A love without decay, Oh my heart, my heart is breaking, For the love of _Alice Gray_!
'Alice Gray.' A ballad, sung by Miss Stephens, Miss Palon, and Miss Grant. Composed and inscribed to Mr. A. Pettet by Mrs. Philip Millard.
Published by A. Pettet, Hanway Street.
YOU GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND (_D. & S._ 23)
Old English Ballad.
A seventeenth-century song, the last line of each verse being 'When the stormy winds do blow.'
YOUNG LOVE LIVED ONCE (_S.B.S._ 20)
In _Sketches by Boz_ this sentence occurs:
'When we say a "shed" we do not mean the conservatory kind of building which, according to the old song, Love frequented when a young man.'
The song referred to is by T. Moore.
Young love lived once in a humble shed, Where roses breathing, And woodbines wreathing, Around the lattice their tendrils spread, As wild and sweet as the life he led.
It is one of the songs in _M.P., or The Blue-Stocking_, a comic opera in three acts.
