Tea tax, and Humble wish
Subtitle: Sung with unbounded applause, at the Boston Theatre, by Mr. Andrews
Publisher: Sold wholesale and retail, by J.G. & H. Hunt, at the N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston.
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Boston Tea Party, 1773; Songs and music; Humorous songs; Tea tax (American colonies); Boston Theatre (Federal Street, Boston, Mass.)
Other titles: Humble wish, or the woodpecker; Woodpecker; I Snum, I am a Yankee lad; I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Notes: Verse in seven stanzas, with chorus.

Followed by verse in four stanzas: Humble wish, or the woodpecker.

Text in two columns; imprint printed vertically between columns.

The poem "Humble wish, or The woodpecker" was published in 1804 by Irish poet Thomas Moore under the title "Ballad stanzas."

At head of first column is a relief cut of a Chinese man holding a tea plant; at head of second column is a cut of a ship beside a wharf with cargo.

The firm of J.G. & H. Hunt was at this address from 1834 to 1836.