A very rare Songster by the short-lived Ornum & Company of New York. Bawdy themes involving Romance, multiple songs on the virtues of alcohol and "evils" of liquor laws, on "Paddies" i.e. the Irish, and a particularly interesting song about a man whose wife left him to join a Latter Day Saint harem.
Includes: The Gin Mill; New York Society; Panama; The Orphan Boy; Bourbon on the Brain; Perhaps She's on the Railway [about a guy whose wife has left him to become a Mormon and one of Brigham Young's wives]; Paddies Evermore; Kilarney; The Hurdy Gurdy Lad; The Liquor Law; Can Any Vone Tole Vere Dot Cat is Gone? [in German vernacular]; Whiskey You're the Devil; Sauerkraut; etc.
Johnny Roach's "Give me the Spade" Songster. Containing the Vocal Gems of this Celebrated Artist, together with the Latest and Most Popular Songs now being Sung by all the Leading Artists throughout the United States and Great Britain. This Book is Dedicated to Eddie Brady, the Great "Old Man" Impersonator. New York. Ornum & Company. c.1875. 66pp + catalogue + wraps.
Fair, front and rear wrap present and attractive, but detached with spine cover all but lost. Interior complete and generally sound with light toning.
