Check out the thread now running concerning the tune we all know for this - "The Girl I Left Behind Me." Ought to be some good stuff showing up there over the next few days.

By the way, the text to the "short version" (not the more complete Doc Watson, et al, one) that we used to sing went:

Oh, the liquor was spilled on the barroom floor;
The bar was closed for the night.
When out crept a mouse from a hole in the wall,
Into the pale moonlight.

He lapped up the liquor from the barroom floor
And on his haunches he sat.
And all night long you could hear him roar,
"Bring on the god damned cat!"

But now I have another verse to learn, don't I?

Sandy