Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1751.12.09

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Index Entry Ballads, sung by widow for money for burial, in lyric [beg] For her husband 
Location New York 
Citation
NYGWPB.751.069
9 Dec 1751:22 (464)
AN EPIGRAM FROM THE MIDWIFE, ON A WOMAN WHO WAS SINGING
BALLADS FOR MONEY TO BURY HER HUSBAND.
For her husband deceas'd, Sally chants the sweet lay;
Why, faith, this is singular sorrow;
But I doubt, since she sings for a dead man to day,
She'll cry for a live on to-morrow.----


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1751.12.09 
Publisher Parker, James 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1751 
Bibliography B0026173
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