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Title: Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

Author: W. S. Gilbert

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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

The Duke of Plaza-Toro

The Reward of Merit

When I First Put This Uniform On

Said I to Myself, Said I

The Family Fool

The Philosophic Pill

The Contemplative Sentry

Sorry Her Lot

The Judge's Song

True Diffidence

The Highly Respectable Gondolier

Don't Forget

The Darned Mounseer

The Hum