Charming Jane Louisa (The Bowery Lass)

DESCRIPTION: Singer meets Jane Louisa on the Bowery in New York. She has him spend all his money on travel and ice cream. When he runs out of money she leaves him, broken hearted, for another man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1858 (see NOTES)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Singer meets tailoress Jane Louisa on the Bowery. She walks with him to the Battery. She suggests they go to Staten Island where he spends 3 dollars on ice cream. They return to Whitehall and she wants him to take her to Castle Garden. When he says he has no money left she complains that "you do not treat me right," and leaves him to go with another man. Having lost "my, fair, false hearted Jane Louisa," he hopes to find "some gentle lady here my lonliness will bless." "I'll treat her as a husband ought ... and never more give a thought on cruel Jane Louisa"
KEYWORDS: greed grief hardheartedness travel courting rejection money food humorous bachelor
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 113, "Charming Jane Louisa" (1 text)
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, "The Bowery Lass" (1 text)
BROADSIDES:
LOC,"Charming Jane Louisa" ("It was in the merry month of June when woods and fields were flowery"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-78 @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.as200520/?r=-0.311,-0.056,1.848,1.556,0
NOTES [75 words]: NOTES: Broadside LOC: H. De Marsan dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam claims to have it from Elton's Song Book. Google Books does not yet have this book, but Elton's Illustrated Song Book Volume 4, which is dated 1858, lists it in one of his catalogs, so we know the song is from before 1858. - RBW.
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File: FJSB113

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