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Thread #5512   Message #4186985
Posted By: Steve Gardham
22-Sep-23 - 01:46 PM
Thread Name: Origin: All for Me Grog
Subject: RE: Origin: All for Me Grog
I see no mention of the early 18th century version given in Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany and reprinted with tune in The Scots Musical Museum, by Johnson & Burns. Printed on Glasgow broadsides in 1800.

'If E'er I do well, 'tis a wonder'

Here's the first stanza of 7. It's quite bawdy.

When I was a young lad my fortune was bad,
If e'er I do well 'tis a wonder.
I spent all my means on whores, bawds and queans;
Then I got a commission to plunder.
Fall all de rall, &co

(No chorus given with the Johnson version.)
(Robertson of Glasgow gives the chorus as Fal lal de ral, etc.)