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Lot 278: c1770 Lottery Ballad Broadside

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Lot  278: c1770 Lottery Ballad Broadside
<b>Colonial America</b><hr><b>Colonial Era “Lottery” Ballad Broadside</b>

<b>(c. 1770) Printed Lottery Ballad, “A New Song” to be sung to the “Tune-Poor Jack,” Very Fine.</b>
11.75” x 4”, Broadside Song Verse of unknown origin. An interesting, five-chorus ditty to be sung to the tune of “Poor Jack.” Printed on heavy laid paper, with a vignette of a man at top. Heavily wrinkled and lightly soiled, small marginal tear at lower left, but with great eye appeal. Here’s the first refrain, in full: “Come listen good people awhile to my lay, For I hope it will make you to smile, As I mean now to give you the theme of the day, And a few tedious moments beguile; The Lottery once more is now drawing away, and the people are all going mad, Some dancing and singing, and capering away, And some altogether sad, While others attempt their own lives for to end, Because that their fortune’s so bad, No creature I’m sure can their folly defend, Unless, too, they’re Lottery mad.” A great Colonial Period item. with a nice Woodcut image, likely that of King George, at top.