Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage UseA rare collection of 195 barroom story-poems including over 150 that have not been published in over 100 years. Most were recited by minstrels who traveled the old West and performed them on kerosine lit tavern stages. These poems were gathered from all over the world. No profanity. |
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Contents
A Chip On His Shoulder Unknown | 11 |
A Little Angel Linda Robertson | 17 |
A Tale Of Conscious Virtue Unknown | 26 |
All Of One Size Unknown | 32 |
As My Uncle Used To Say James Whitcomb Riley | 38 |
Bygones Unknown 16 | 44 |
Casey Twenty Years Later S P McDonald | 48 |
Dogs For Disposal Margaret M Mackay | 56 |
The Ballad Of Me And Sourdough Dan James Ploss | 156 |
The Betrothed Rudyard Kipling | 179 |
The Clink Of The Ice Eugene Field | 185 |
The Dancer Faith Frances Berlin | 194 |
The Defective Mirror Michele S Kurlander | 201 |
The Female Of The Species Rudyard Kipling | 209 |
The Great Provider Bill Foster | 216 |
The Homecoming Royal L Craig | 222 |
General Delivery Alaska Bill Foster | 64 |
Hell In Texas Unknown | 70 |
How Paddy Stole The Rope Unknown | 76 |
Had But Fifty Cents Unknown | 82 |
Jim Bludso Col John Hay | 88 |
Little Lost Pup Arthur Guiterman | 95 |
Lonely Walker 75 | 102 |
McCaffery Unknown | 103 |
My Dog Burr McIntosh 85 | 109 |
Our Lips And Ears Unknown 149 | 122 |
Paw Marks W J Hickmott Jr | 129 |
Rags Edmund Vance Cooke | 136 |
She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured William B Gray | 143 |
That Cocker Spaniel Mutt Bo Tandy Magruder | 150 |
The Last Of The Light Brigade Rudyard Kipling 183 | 228 |
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 217 | 234 |
The Nuisance Margaret Mackprang Mackay 151 | 240 |
The Raven Edgar Allen Poe | 247 |
The Road To Vagabondia Dana Burnet 225 | 269 |
The SeaWife Rudyard Kipling | 275 |
The Vagabond And His Dog Robert X Leeds 8 | 281 |
The Womans Resolution Edward L Wier | 287 |
The Young British Soldier Rudyard Kipling | 295 |
They Were Mixed Unknown 286 | 301 |
Who Shared Her View Douglas Kruger | 308 |
Wits End Linda Robertson | 314 |
Woman Linda Robertson 215 | 328 |
Common terms and phrases
angels Author Unknown beauty Bill bird blue called Christmas close cold comes cried dead dear death door dreams drink eyes face fair faith fear feel feet floor gave give hair hand head hear heard heart Heaven hell hope keep killed kind knew land laugh leave light live look Lord meet mind never night once passed play poems poor pray prison rest round sailed Santa seemed share ship sight sing smile soldier song soul sound stand stood strong sure sweet tears tell thee There's thing thought Till told took town true turned Twas voice wait walk watched wife wind woman wonder young
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage Use |
| Editor | Robert X. Leeds |
| Compiled by | Robert X. Leeds |
| Publisher | Epic Publishing Company, Inc, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0967402506, 9780967402505 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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