Widow Widdle; or, A Thousand Pounds a Year.

Notes

Opens, "I once was dressy, volatile, and rich as any Jew, But now I’m gloomy, penniless, and nearly starving, too." Cf. Edwin Wolf, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides, 1850-1870. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1963), no. 2637a.