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Title	Burke's ballads
Author	Burke, Johnny, 1851-1930
Place of Publication	St. John's, N.L.?
Date	1912?
Description	A collection of song lyrics compiled by Johnny Burke. The majority of the songs are about the loss of ships, with particular emphasis on the S. S. Titanic.
Contents	Lines written on the missing S.S. Erna -- Hurrah! For the Newfoundland squad in Canada -- Lines on the sad drowning of two brothers -- Loss of the S.S. Titanic near Cape Race -- Bravery of two Roman Catholic priests on the S.S. Titanic lost near Cape Race -- Success to the hardy sealers -- Loss of the S.S. Titanic -- Loss of the S.S. Regulus -- Loss of the steamship Bruce -- Loss of the "Devonia" -- Loss of the S.S. Titanic (great bravery was displayed by Colonel Astor and others) -- Murder of Lillian Jewer, a Newfoundland girl, in Boston -- Loss of the Biseover -- Loss of the schr. Heroine -- First arrival from the seal fishery (S.S. Fogota, 1912) -- Lines on the sad drowning of a Nfld. seaman (named Ebenezer Pike, from the schr. Dorothy Baird) -- Two Newfoundland fisherman (fourteen days adrift in open dory) -- Loss of the "Golden Arrow" -- Loss of the schr. Susan on the Labrador (four fishermen drowned) -- Put on you coxswain's duster for the races -- Loss of the S.S. Algerine -- Halley's comet -- The Trinity cake -- When I was single
Subject	Ballads, English--Newfoundland and Labrador--Texts Songs, English--Newfoundland and Labrador--Texts Newfoundland and Labrador--Songs and music--Texts
Physical Description	31 leaves : ill.
Note	Includes advertisements.
Location	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
Local Call Number	M 1678 B85 1912
Type	Text
Resource Type	Book
Format	Image/jpeg: Application/pdf
Record Number	CNS-B0321
Collection	Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books.
Repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies
Language	Eng
Relation	Reference: CNS-B0110. (Burke, Johnny. Burke's ballads. St. John's, 1960)
Source	Paper text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
PDF File	(5.36MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/BurkesBallads2.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	67562.cpd