Rum By Gum (Temperance Union Song)

DESCRIPTION: "We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we do take our stand.... Away, away with rum, by gum, The song of the (Salvation Army/Temperance Union)." Various verses on the value of sobriety
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (Welch & Moore, Michigan's Favorite College Songs)
KEYWORDS: drink political nonballad
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Randolph 317, "Temperance Song" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment without the chorus)
Cray-AshGrove, pp. 36-37, "Away, Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, pp. 6-7, "Away With Rum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 233, "Away With Rum" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 107, "Salvation Amy Song" (notes only)
DT, (AWAYRUM*) (AWAYRUM2*) (AWAYRUM3*) (AWAYRUM4*) (AWAYRUM5*)
ADDITIONAL: Roy Dickinson Welch & Earl Vincent Moore, _Michigan's Favorite College Songs_, First (?) Edition, University Music House, 1913 (available on Google Books), p. 158, "Away with Rum" (1 text, 1 tune, "arranged by Ruth Smith); Sixth Edition, 1921 (available on Google Books), p. 224, "Away with Rum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12765
NOTES [57 words]: Warning: All the Digital Tradition versions are parodies of one sort or another (AWAYRUM5 is 35 verses, almost all silly, almost all modern). Many singers today sing this as a joke. But the roots of this piece are almost certainly serious (compare Randolph's version).
Thanks to Jim Dixon for pointing out the Welch & Moore version. - (JD), RBW
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File: R317

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