I Won't Marry at All, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man because he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go begging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat.
Poor Old Maid, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:
Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue—
Poor old maid!
Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue,
I'm just as sweet as the morning dew,
And to a husband I'd stick like glue—
Poor old maid!
I Wish I was Single Again, metre as below, 5: A married man's repentance: his first wife died—
I married me another, O then, O then;
I married me another O then;
I married me another, the Devil's grandmother,
And I wish I was single again.
Joe Bowers, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike County, Missouri, and goes to "Rome," California, to make a home for her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she had married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair.
A Pound of Tow, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has since become a gad-about and a gossip.
XIV.
The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called sentimental.