When the Fancy-Stirring Bowl

DESCRIPTION: "'Tis when the fancy-stirring bowl Wakes its world of pleasures" it awakes "gay desires" in the singer's "wasted heart." "Then who'd be grace when wine can save The heaviest soul from sinking." It makes every girl pretty and makes the old feel young
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1792 (The Edibburgh Musical Miscellany)
KEYWORDS: drink nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
TimFinigansWakeSongster, pp. 46-47, "When the Fancy-Stirring Bowl" (1 text)
Roud #47389
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mrs. Casey" (tune, according to TimFinigansWakeSongster)
File: TFWS046

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