The Naval songster, or Jack Tar's chest of conviviality : containing a collection of celebrated sea-songs calculated to inspire "the honest heart of a tar" with mirth and conviviality and to send "dull care" to Davy Jones's locker ; many of which are intended to commemorate the glorious naval victories of last year : a few sentimental toasts and toasted sentiments ; with an address from an old seaman (now a Greenwich pensioner) to all the Jack Tars in His Majesty's fleet describing all the naval victories, & c since the commencement of the present war.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for J. Fairburn,
[179-?]
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Table of Contents:
- Woodcut frontispiece plate for 1799: "The British Tar Triumphant;" song on page 32.
- 1799 annual issue: Address from an old seaman (now a Greenwich pensioner) to all the Jack Tars in His Majesty's fleet
- A new song occasioned by the memorable victory obtained by Admiral Nelson over the French fleet, near the mouth of the Nile on the 1st of August, 1798
- William and Jane
- The little island
- The green sea
- Poor Tom Halliard
- The land in the ocean
- Ben Bowsprit
- The Irishman's first of August
- The Nancy
- All's one to Jack
- Lovely Nan
- The Christian Sailor
- Jack's fidelity
- Nautical philosophy
- Jack Block
- The Arethusa
- The British tar triumphant, or, The downfall of the French
- The wooden walls of Old England
- The girls we love so dearly
- The shipwreck
- The cabin-boy
- Admiral Jervis
- A salt eel for mynheer
- The merry sailor
- Sentiments & c.