| Title | Desponding Negro, The |
| Short Title | American MM, 1798 |
| Page | 166-168 |
| First Line | On Afric's wide plains where the lion now roaring |
| Verses | 6 |
| Burden | Spare a halfpenny, &c. |
| Refrain | Spare a halfpenny to a poor negro |
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| Comments | Music notation |
| IDSONG | S0005456 |
| IDSOURCE | B0000149 |