Merry Tippler, The

DESCRIPTION: "When first I was a little boy my mammy did begin, She sent me early in the morning to fetch her cargo i. So I drink some you must know, must know." The singer tells how he and his mammy tried various drinks; now he doesn't care; he'll drink it all
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1868 (Fireman's Songster)
KEYWORDS: drink mother humorous nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Purslow-TheConstantLovers, p. 59, "The Merry Tippler" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _The Fireman's Songster_, (Philadelphia:) A Winch, 1868 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon Songster collection at the Library of Congress), p. 69, "The Drinker" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #1661
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Such a Beauty I Did Grow" (tune)
File: PCL059

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