Hello Aine,,br> As I have been to a festival this challenge nearly got away from me, please excuse my lateness, but at least I made it here.
Hello fellow challengers, I see you were all fired up for this one.
Spider Tom.

BURNING BOURBON.

The station bells were ringing,
The firemen were singing,
As quickly they were flinging,
Their helmits and their hose,
And they wondered at the chances,
As the fiery flame advances,
Can you put out burning Bourbon,
With a common fire hose?
Can you fight a bourbon fire,
With a common fire hose?

The building was fast burning,
And the stills were hissing, spitting,
And the oak kegs they were splitting,
And they fed the hungry flame,
And the firemen were learning,
That when Bourbon is a'burning,
You be foolish, if you get too close,
But they fought it all the same.
And the Bourbon was Kentucky,
Wild Turkey was its name.

And burnt grog filled the river,
And the fish were going loopy,
Swimming in the soupy,
Sludgy, mirky water way,
And the fire never tired,
Took its time to be expired,
And the fighters were exausted,
Covered in the ash and spray.
You can never throw the towel in,
They can't turn and walk away.

Battered, beat and tired,
The flame was now, retired,
Though, fire sits and waits its chance,
To bite, another day,
And they had to close the river,,br> The small towns water giver,
Cause it needed proper cleaning,
That's what they did say,
A rest time so the Alcohol,
Had time to float away.

From Seattle to Nantucket,
Folk were heading there with buckets,
In the only known, Bourbon rush,
On record to this day,,br> They had sherrifs at the border,
And fighting over water,
As they frenzied, fire waters,
Were drunk or swilled away.,br> It's amazing what a man will do,
To carry Drink away.

But it's rumoured, the real winners,
Were the fire fighters,
Having emptied all their water tanks,
Hoseing out the fire,
It was whispered that they left the scene,
With full tanks on their truck,
Cause they knew just, how to,
Switch from squirt, to suck.
What would we do, me or you?,
Switch from squirt to suck.