Tony Liene enquired a week or so ago [150824 MMDigest] that he was
looking for "Down at the Old Bull & Bush" on piano roll.  The song
was written around 1903 and, as Matthew Caulfield points out, the
tune is exactly the same as "Under the Anheuser Busch" written at the
same time, although strictly speaking "Bull & Bush" is not a parody,
but is rather an intentional re-writing of the song words for
publication on the UK market as the Anheuser Busch brewery would not
have been familiar to UK buyers of sheet music.

Interestingly, the 1904 record catalogue of the Columbia Phonograph Co.
lists both versions of the song!  This was not uncommon practice in
music publishing at the time, where music or words of a song were
sometimes edited, for sale in a different country where the original
words or indeed title would not have much meaning in the popular
language of the day.

Another song from the period which springs to mind was "Down where the
Wurzburger Flows" as published in the USA, the lyrics of which were
completely re-written for the UK market, as "Riding on top of the Car".
(In popular language at the time, "car" was a contraction of Tram-car.)

Anyway, back to "Bull & Bush" on a piano roll, in forty years of
collecting I have never seen that title on an original roll from the
1900-1910 period (the song dates to 1903, I believe).  And, of course,
at that early date it would have been on 65-note roll, if at all.
However, a fairly decent arrangement of the song does appear in a
medley issued in the early 1930s when there was a revival of interest
in the Music Hall songs tradition, which by that time had largely
disappeared.

The roll was issued in UK by Aeolian as Full Scale Themodist roll
T30478, "Music Hall Memories Roll 2".  The "Music Hall Memories" series
were issued in 4 rolls; rolls 1 and 2 turn up fairly frequently in UK
Music roll auctions, although rolls 3 and 4 seem to be fairly rare.
Hope that helps a little!

Paul Baker
Gosport, England