Drink It Down

DESCRIPTION: "Here's success to Port, drink it down, drink it down (x2)... For it warms the heart for sport." "Here's success to sherry... makes the heart beat merry." And so forth, for whisky, cider, brandy, ale, punch, porter, water
AUTHOR: Julien Carle? (source: McNeil-SouthernMountainFolksong)
EARLIEST DATE: 1862 (The Camp Fire Songster); 1853 (according to McNeil-SouthernMountainFolksong)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad wordplay
FOUND IN: Australia US(So) Canada
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Silber-SongsOfTheCivilWar, pp. 189-190, "Drink It Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
McNeil-SouthernMountainFolksong, pp. 154-157, "Drink 'er Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fahey-Joe-Watson-AustralianTraditionalFolkSinger, [p. 20, page headed "Drinking Song:"], "(no title)" (1 short text, a racy verse that opens "Here's to the good old brandy")
Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang, pp. 41-42, "Here's to the Good Old Beer" (1 text)
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p. 87, "Here's to the Good Old Beer" (1 text)
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 20, "Here's to Good Old Beer" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 272, "Here's to --- and --- (Drink It Down, Drink It Down)"
Campfire-Songster-1862, p. 61, "Drink It Down (A Popular Camp Song)" (1 text)
Roud #17004
SAME TUNE:
Boys In Blue, Fall In Line ("Wake up, gallant boys in blue, Fall in line! Fall in line!) (Garfield and Arthur Campaign Song Book 1880, p.23)
NOTES [116 words]: Mudcat user "and e" found what appears to be a version of this in the Legal Intelligencer Friday, July 27, 1855 (available on Google Books), p. 190, but there isn't much text:
"The German compositors, of whom there were a goodly number, sang their songs and glees in good style, while the Yankee lads, not to be outdone in this respect, sang, among other merry strains, an original glee, the chorus of which will be duly appreciated by all members of 'The Art Preservative.'
Here's success to King & Baird, drink it down, drink it down,
Where the 'fat' and the 'lean's' well shared, drink it down, &c, &c."
Obviously it appears to be this, but there could have been some rewriting along the way.
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File: SCWF189

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