Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories
300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.
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OUR FAMILIAR SONGS.
BARNEY BUNTLINE. |
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The delightfully absurd song of " Barney Buntline " was written by William Pitt, Esq., of the British navy. He was master-attendant at Jamaica Dock-yard, and was afterÂward stationed at Malta, where he died in 1840. The air is an old English one, to which these words were set by John Davy, composer of the famous air, " Bay of Biscay." |
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One night came on a hurricane, the sea was mounÂtains rolling,
When Barney Buntlme turned his quid, and said to Billy Bowling:
44 A strong sou'-wester's blowing, Bill, O can't you you hear it roar now;
God help 'em, how I pities all unhappy folks ashore, now!
Bow, wow, wow, &c. |
" Fool-hardy chaps as lives in towns, what danger
they are all in ! And now they're quaking in their beds for fear
the roof should fall in. Poor creatures, how they envies us, and wishes,
I've a notion, For our good luck in such a storm to be upon
the ocean.
Bow, wow, wow, &c. |
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