Poison Beer

DESCRIPTION: "I stood there on the village green, and heard what the preacher said. He said, 'If you go on drinking beer, you'll very soon all be dead.'" The preacher calls beer poison. The singer's wife cuts him off. But his father drank beer and lived to 93
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
KEYWORDS: drink clergy warning poison
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #100, "Poison Beer" (1 text)
Roud #3369
File: Hows100

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