Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand

DESCRIPTION: "Dance all night with a bottle in (your/my) hand, bottle in your hand, bottle in your hand, Dance all night... (Just for a day, give the fiddler a dram/As we go marching on)." "Old Aunt Petty, won't you fill 'em up again?" "We'll hang Jeff Davis...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians)
KEYWORDS: drink dancing nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Rosenbaum-FolkVisionsAndVoices, p. 20, "Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 246, "Give the Fiddler a Dram" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #3657 and 10496
RECORDINGS:
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, "Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand" (Columbia 15108, 1926?)
NOTES [27 words]: Roud files this under multiple numbers, but the "dance all night with a bottle" and "give the fiddler a dram" lines seem closely associated, so I've lumped them. - RBW
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File: Rose020

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