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Thread #127507   Message #2845540
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Feb-10 - 10:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sussex Drinking Song (Hilaire Belloc)
Subject: Lyr Add: WEST SUSSEX DRINKING SONG (Hilaire Belloc
Now, what I did find in print is the West Sussex Drinking Song:


WEST SUSSEX DRINKING SONG
(Hilaire Belloc)

THEY sell good Beer at Haslemere
And under Guildford Hill.
At Little Cowfold as I've been told
A beggar may drink his fill:
There is a good brew in Amberley too,
And by the bridge also;
But the swipes they take in at Washington Inn
Is the very best Beer I know.

CHORUS:
With my here it goes, there it goes,
All the fun's before us:
The Tipple's Aboard and the night is young,
The door's ajar and the Barrel is sprung,
I am singing the best song ever was sung,
And it has a rousing chorus.

If I were what I never can be,
The master or the squire;
If you gave me the hundred from here to the sea,
Which is more than I desire:
Then all my crops should be barley and hops,
And did my harvest fail,
I'd sell every rood of mine acres, I would,
For a bellyful of good Ale.

CHORUS:
With my here it goes, there it goes,
All the fun's before us:
The Tipple's Aboard and the night is young,
The door's ajar and the Barrel is sprung,
I am singing the best song ever was sung,
And it has a rousing chorus.

Source: Verses By Hilaire Belloc (1916)