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The Original Pontoon Songster choose

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[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Dead Beat’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 21: He’d whisper in accents so sweet, / ‘Have you got any loose change about you?’ / So she’d settle the bill of this beat.
at beat, n.3
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Dead Beat’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 20: To a flashing young millionaire’s daughter, / He paid his respects on the sly; / A big thing on ice, too, he thought her, / And to her to get married would try.
at a big thing on ice (n.) under big thing, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘And She Wore A Waterfall’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 28: She got blind drunk on lager-beer.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Jolly Sam Johnson’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 15: The Italian from Wexford, she busted her biler.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Who’ll Have Me Now?’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 19: No doctor’s bills do trouble me for bully is my health.
at bully, adj.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Sally Doe’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 8: Sally Doe, the wife of Cat Fish Mick-i-e.
at catfish, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ Orig. Pontoon Songster [song title] She Was Such A Charmer.
at charmer, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Me And Matilda Jane’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 34: One darkey he got jealous, and challenged me a duel, / And for the sake of ’Tilda Jane, I quickly cooked his gruel.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Fulton Market’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 11: By Jove! this steak is awful tough, just like a side of leather. / A piece of it I couldn’t put down, it nearly stopped my breath.
at put down, v.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Happiest Darkeys Out’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 45: Oh we have hired a gallus horse.
at gallows, adj.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Fulton Street’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 11: Another lodged here in my gills, and I nearly choked to death.
at gills, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Max And Nap’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 12: So have a care, friend Louie, there’s no green in our eye.
at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Jolly Sam Johnson’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 15: With a fish-ball revolver, I settled his gruel.
at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Jolly Sam Johnson’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 15: One day with my prarie hen out I was walking.
at hen, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Hail Columbia, Right Side Up’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 37: Yankee Doodle and Mickey Free / Will soon shake their hands in union.
at mickey, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Me And Matilda Jane’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 34: The first time at a colored ball, the other mokes would say, / ‘Here somes Pomp with Matilda Jane, you’d better clear de way’.
at moke, n.2
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Down Near The Battery ’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 41: Hail Columbia in the garret, Yankee Doodle shouta, / By and by there comes a policeman, and he nix can fetch him outa.
at nix, adv.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Down Near The Battery’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 41: He fell in love with this young gal [...] From seeing her phizog painted, on an omnibus door.
at phiz, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Dead Beat’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 20: There was ‘a gay Pill’ in this city, / Who on the best maiden did live.
at pill, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Charcoal Man’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 53: But he upset Mary Jane, wagon and all, bang into a policy shop.
at policy, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Collar Butcher’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 24: He put his clothes ‘in Pop,’ to buy a shot-gun.
at pop, n.2
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Sally Doe’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 7: In her room she kept a shop, and sold cakes and ginger pop.
at pop, n.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Collar Butcher’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 24: He was a fancy waiter, but a very small potato.
at small potatoes, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘Strike While The Iron Is Hot’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 51: If a pretty girl you’re sparking, follow up this good old rule, / Keep up with the tongs and hammer, never let the thing grow cool.
at spark, v.1
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Collar Butcher’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 24: ’Twas on the Jersey Flat, we had our little spat.
at spat, n.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Cat In The Corner’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 65: Och, I weep for the day I was freed from my cot, / My praties and milk, and my stirabout pot.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘The Cat In The Corner’ Orig. Pontoon Songster 65: When may the funds be supposed to be unsteady? When the money is ‘tight.’.
at tight, adj.
[US] ‘Johnny Cross’ ‘When I Felt Awful Blue’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 18: If a friend asks you to lend a V, it puts you in a stew.
at V, n.1
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