The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74796   Message #1307778
Posted By: open mike
26-Oct-04 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: drinking song...lodging is a cellar here
Subject: Origins: drinking song...lodging is a cellar here
my dad recorded this on a 78 rpm circa 1947

any one have any source information?

Drinking Song

My lodging is a cellar here
Upon a cask I am seated
The choicest wines my heart can cheer
To me is freely meted(sp?)
The cellar man deserves my praise
From duty never shrinking
He deftly fills the glass i raise
When drinking, drinking, drinking.

To banish thirst i plainly haste
it comes back all the quicker
such is the lot of all who taste
the rind (?) inspiring liquor
i cannot see what harm is done
as to the floor I'm sinking
i never injure anyone
when drinking, drinking, drinking


it is filled with octave jumps....
a catchy tune...i will try to
do the dots....