May God Above Send Down

DESCRIPTION: "May God above send down a dove With wings as sharp as razors To cut the throats of those old bloats Who cut the poor man's wages." Or "May God above send down his love,... To cut the throats of gentlefolks, Who grudge poor men their victuals"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
KEYWORDS: drink curse nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, p. 287, "(May God above Send down a dove)" (1 short text)
NOTES [57 words]: There is a long thread about this toast on mudcat.org, listing very many variants, although most of them are clearly topical and composed. Nonetheless it appears traditional; one of the mudcat posters had a version apparently fro 1830, and Jonathan Lighter found a version very much like Korson's from 1902, plus rewrites from 1888 and 1916. - RBW
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File: KMMP287

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