Drinking song

A drinking song was sung by Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and Peregrin Took after lunch the day after they met Gildor and the Elves on their way to Crickhollow in the year TA 3018. The Elves had filled the hobbits' water bottles with a honey-scented, pale gold drink that was very invigorating. Just after the song, the hobbits first heard the calls of the Black Riders.The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Ch. IV: "A Short Cut to Mushrooms"
== Lyrics ==
:Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
:To heal my heart and drown my woe.
:Rain may fall and wind may blow,
:And many miles be still to go,
:But under a tall tree, I will lie,
:And let the clouds go sailing by.
== In adaptations ==
A few lines of this song, incorporated with parts of Bilbo's favorite bath-song, are sung by Merry and Pippin in The Green Dragon Inn in the extended edition of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring.
:Hey, ho! to the bottle I go
:To heal my heart and drown my woe!
:Rain may fall, and wind may blow,
:But there will still be
:Many miles to go!
:Sing with the sound of the pouring rain
:And the stream that falls from hill to plain!
:But better than rain or rippling brook,
:Is a bottle of beer safe in this Took!
== References ==
Category:Poems in The Fellowship of the Ring