Now this gal was a real big spender!
"Amy was a good woman, everybody knows,
She spent ten thousand dollars to buy her Albert's clothes."
Durham, NC, 1919, in MS of Blake B. Harrison, "Other stanzas cannot be written." Newman I White, American Negro Folk Songs.

Someone should go back through these old manuscripts and notes to find the versions that couldn't be printed at the time. A lot of good material is stored away in library collections.