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GLORIOUS BEER
Words by Steve Leggett; music by Will Godwin; ©1895.
As recorded by Dan W. Quinn, 1899.

1. I won't sing of sherbet and water,
For sherbet with beer will not rhyme.
The working man can't afford champagne.
It's a bit more than fivepence a time.
So I'll sing you a song of a gargle,
A gargle that I love so dear.
I allude to that grand institution,
That beautiful tonic called beer, beer, beer.

CHORUS: Beer, beer, glorious beer!
Fill yourselves right up to here.
Drink a good deal of it.
Make a good meal of it.
Stick to your old-fashioned beer.
Now, don't be afraid of it.
Drink till you're made of it.
Now all together a cheer!
Up with the sale of it!
Down with a pail of it!
Glorious, glorious beer!

2. It's the daddy of all lubricators.
The best thing there is for your neck.
Can be used as a gargle or lotion,
By persons of every sect.
Now we know who the goddess of wine was,
But was there a goddess of beer?
If so, let us drink to her health, boys,
And wish that we just had her here, here, here. CHORUS TWICE.