My pocket's low and taxes high (Samuel Webbe)

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• (Posted 2022-01-17)  CPDL #67614: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 387 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

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Title: My pocket's low and taxes high
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composer^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1805 (n/d)
Description: Income tax had been introduced by Pitt the Younger in 1798, to help fund the wars against France. Webbe also embedded the national anthem in another glee of similar date, "British sentiments".

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