A lampooning of P. T. Barnum's Jenny Lind song contest.
Created by William Allen Butler (1825—1902) and published in 1850.
Transcribed and edited as E-book by Jeffrey Merrow.
Contents:
- Volunteer Ode
- The Manager and the Nightingale
- Barnumopsis
- The Zephyr Song
- Broadside
- “At Midnight in his Downy Bed”
- Sweet Fifteen
- Tell me not in Spiteful Numbers
- Such people I never have met
- “O Land of happy Hearts and Homes”
- The Song of the Steamer Atlantic
- Grand Committee Chorus