My father used to recite this: (approximately--- many variations)

"There was a little man and he had a little can,
and he used to rush the growler.
He went to the saloon on a Sunday afternoon
and you should have heard the bartender holler!

No booze today, no booze today, you can't get booze on Sunday
No booze today, no booze today, you got to get your can filled Monday"


"To rush the growler (sometimes to roll the growler and other forms) was to take a container to the local bar to buy beer. The growler was the container, usually a tin can. Brander Matthews wrote about it in Harper's Magazine in July 1893: "In New York a can brought in filled with beer at a bar-room is called a growler, and the act of sending this can from the private house to the public-house and back is called working the growler". The job of rushing the growler was often given to children."