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Thread #92279   Message #1763358
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Jun-06 - 12:36 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I've Got Sixpence, Jolly, Jolly Sixpence
Subject: RE: who wrote: I've Got Sixpence.. Jolly Jolly
Not in current "SFSS" available in U. S.
Removed because not a legitimate chantey?

Now that you have mentioned it, Chazkratz, I remember the song too, except that the lines I knew were:
Oh, it's whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, that makes us feel so frisky,
Drink it down, Drink it down.
Can't remember any more without guessing, or whether it was sung at Illinois, Texas or more likely the military college I attended. It was a college drinking song that was rather widespread. Possibly a development with different tune from:

Here's success to whiskey
Drink it down, drink it down,
Here's success to whiskey
Drink it down, drink it down,
For it makes the spirits frisky,
Drink it down, drink it down, drink it down!
(and verses for many more intoxicants)

Pardon the digression-