Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-05-09
BY A. sPAULDISG.

That Wnen peOplt SOt IoSethci, III ioui VI
weather, .. .-...t. ..
They would send and get gallon of rum, rum,
rum,
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
They would hand boy jug as big as he could
lug,
They would tell him not to stay, but to come,
For they couldn't do thing until he did come
and bring
The big bottle, with the gallon OF rum, rum,
rum,
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
could travel ...
For he knew when he got it he'd have some;
SO he would not stop to play, but he'd run half
the way,
Till he got back with his bottle of rum rum,
TNas, .s
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum
Then they'd pass it round and round, and they'd
walow on the ground, -..
For every man and boy would drink some
Then they'd quarrel and they'd fight, and they'd
stay llll pTOau uay liehu'
Just because they had bottle of rum, rum,
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
When they had their story told, it would make
their women scold; A
They would tell them they had better been at
home
Some would get their dresses tore, and Others
kicked out door.
just because their men were lovers of rum
r Wine, brandy gin, or whiskey or rum.
To training they would go, for to hear the ffcrs
And to hear the rub-a-dub on the drum
And their captain was skunk if he didn't get
some drunk
By passing round his bottle of rum, rum. rum,
Wine brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum
And when a child was born, if its father had no
But to your house begging he did come.
II you see his woman, tell her just step down into
the cellar
And there she'd find plenty of rum, rum,
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
And before the child was dres't, yes before it
touched the breast,
And about as soon as anybody come,
They would mix little toddy. add they'd pour
it down its body, ft.
So they'd learn the little baby to drink rum,
rum, rum.
Wine, brandy, gin, or whisky or rum.
They had better stop its breath than to poison it
to death,
They could do it with their finger and thumb,
Better dose it with arsenic, let it die off in panic,
Than to kill it off by inches. with rum, rum,
rum,
.r Wine brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
When wedding they did make, and they had
'flas their good sweetcake,
And the Justice to the marriage hadc ONE,
When the Justice tied the knot 0 it never would
stay put,
Unless they wet it down with rum, rum, rum
gGa Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
When they went into hall, where they often
#"atiA had q ball. a' 2# A
And the negro with his fiddle had come,
They would up and down stairs prance, but
couldn't begin to dance,
Till they treated all their ladies withrum rum,
rum. I le6i M a,sm
o4 Wine. brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
And was person sick, and expecting to die
@a a quick, IN lH G st1.g 5it III
And the Doctor, being sent for had come.
Then the patient he would say, 90 good God
.', don't let me die
Molly, hand me that decanter of rum" rum
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum
And was a person dead. and in his coffin laid.
and the neighbors to the funeral had come
when the priest fulfilled his mission and the
people formed procession, H
Then they'd guzzle down bottle Of rum rum,
-48a rum, df 4gs s9 7fof a4s
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
Then they had striped pig, who would your
J4t84 yictuals dig gr seD o.f .-.t,
advise you never near him to come.
But turn and from him scud, or he'll rcll you in
tGt f3o the mud 5df D1ggdt3Td HsMd aao
For he's nothing but q barrel Of rum, rum,
rum, -
Wine, brandy, gin, or whiskey or rum.
dmd ND bc9aoa neYrW AZ
When man worked at his trade and had build
ing made, i '+et % 'V'i
And the neighbors to tho raising had come.
o they couldn't lift pin till the owner did begin