That was me on 3rd June sans cookie.

I think the last line of the first verse should be:

*His conduct's* something shocking 'cause 'e's always on your ear,

I think the third line of the first verse does indeed end *you embar*. Embar can also mean to deny someone something, so I guess BIll's not easily put off!

Begging Jim's leave, the lyrics now look like this:

WON'T YER BUY SOME BEER?
Words and music by Harry Rogers, James Palmer and Nat Travers, 1917.
As recorded by Nat Travers on "Cockney Kings of Music Hall"

1. To say this song's not silly talk would be to tell a lie.
It's all about a pal of mine whose throat is always dry.
He mops up all the unclaimed beer as he stands in the bar,
And he's not at all particular if he spots some you embar.
It ought to be a lesson straight to ev'rybody here.
'Is conduct's something shocking 'cause 'e's always on your ear,

CHORUS: With his "Will yer, won't yer, won't yer, will yer, won't yer buy some beer?
Only just a 'alf a pint;* I've got a pain just here."
And ev'rybody that he meets, he whispers down their ear:
"Will yer, won't yer, won't yer, will yer, won't yer buy some beer?"

2. One day when Bill was stony broke, the clergyman he met,
Who said, "Man, why not mend your ways? The beer try to forget.
Come round tonight and take the pledge, Bill answered, "Yus, that's me."
And to make a change for the good, quite anxious seemed to be.
His face grew sad and solemn as a tear fell on his sleeve.
He took the parson by the coat, and as he went to leave,

CHORUS: He said: "Will yer,—" [etc.]

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* On second chorus, first time around, substitute "gallon and 'alf." Second time around, back to 'alf a pint.

LFF