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Thread #73372   Message #1288506
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Oct-04 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Java Jive
Stewie posted "Wouldn't Give Me Sugar...", Macon, in thread 31041: Wouldn't

In "The Word on the Street," the broadsides posted by the National Library of Scotland, there is a song, "Things I'd Like to See," with the verse (ca. 1880-1900):

Now the ports are thrown open, I'd like for to see,
The duty all taken off coffee and tea,
I should like to see bread at a penny a pound,
And beef twopence-halfpenny the country round,
etc.

www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15058/criteria/coffee