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Thread #2187   Message #1265397
Posted By: GUEST,RJT
06-Sep-04 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night
Subject: Origins: 'Drunk Last Night'
Does anyone have any solid info regarding the song "Drunk Last Night"?

I've searched other threads and found info on lyrics, but not much on origins. This song was recorded in the 50's by Mitch Miller as a sing-a-long, and a version of it (Bombed Last Night) was used in the musical 'Oh, What a Lovely War' (1969) which was about World War I. I'm not sure when the musical was written or if it borrowed from Drunk Last Night, or vice versa.

Any info, including a reference in Fuld's or elsewhere would be appreciated.
Thank's.

Lyrics (to the best of my understanding) go like this:

Drunk last night,
Drunk the night before,
Gonna get drunk tonight
Like I never got drunk before,
For when I'm drunk
I'm as happy as can be,
For I am a member of the Dutch Company.

Oh, the Dutch company
Is the best company
That ever came over from old Germany.
There's the Amsterdam Dutch,
And the Rotterdam Dutch,
The Pottsdam Dutch
And the rotten damn Dutch.

Singing glorious, glorious!
One keg of beer for the four of us.
Glory be that there are no more of us,
For one of us could drink it all alone.
All alone, all alone.
One of us could drink it all alone.
Glory be that there are no more of us,
For one of us could drink it all alone.

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Second verse is the same as the first except replace 'Dutch Company' with 'Souse Family'.