"Mad Carew" was in a book my parents gave me decades ago; I think it was "Best Loved Poems of the American People." It had a lot of old ballads on the order of "Lasca, Down by the Rio Grande" & I loved it.
Those who remember "Upstairs/Downstairs" fondly may recall that the servants all go for a holiday in August 1914, and England declares war just as Hudson the butler gets really going on a recital of "Mad Carew."
Full disclosure: My only recital piece for parties is "The Ramsbottoms at the Seashore", in which little Albert is eaten by Wallace the Lion.
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