| Title | Desponding Negro, The |
| Short Title | Jovial-2, 1798 |
| Page | 46-48 |
| First Line | On Afric's wide plains where lions now roaring |
| Verses | 6 |
| Burden | Spare a halfpenny, &c. |
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| IDSONG | S0005652 |
| IDSOURCE | B0000163 |