Books on Bowls. First Twenty-one Songs of the Bowling Green

Title	First Twenty-one Songs of the Bowling Green
Author	Harry Murphy
Publisher	John McLellan, Milngavie, Glasgow, Scotland
First published	1934
ISBN	Pre-ISBN system
Edition reviewed	1st
Hardback/softback	Softback
List price	1s 0d (5p)
Cover size (cm) (height x width)	22.5 x 14.9
Number of pages	31
Number of pages with	Coloured photos	Black & white photos	Line drawings
	None	None	None
Synopsis	One or two bowling songs appear in a number of early bowls books and this form of entertainment, although appearing old-fashioned now, was once presumably sufficiently popular to persuade Harry Murphy to write this book. There are, in fact, 22 songs - not 21 as the title indicates; for some reason the final song, entitled 'Epilogue', was not included in the count. The songs are arranged under four headings: 'The Game'; 'Characters'; 'Humours and Moods'; and 'Occasions'. Here's the first verse of a song from the first section called 'Bowling' to be sung to the air 'In Cellar Cool': Of all the games that men can play Than Bowling there's none finer, For there all ranks as equals meet, From minister to miner; The magistrate and poacher both Can set the spheres a-rolling, And oft the Master's neath the Man When they're bowling, bowling, bowling.

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