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Thread #173880   Message #4217120
Posted By: and e
12-Feb-25 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Here's to Good Old Beer, Drink It Down
Subject: RE: Origins: Here's to Good Old Beer, Drink It Down
....The German compositors, of whom there were a
goodly number, sang their songs and glees in
good style, while the Yankee lads, not to be out-
done in this respect, sang, among other merry
strains, an original glee, the chorus of which will
be duly appreciated by all members of "The Art
Preservative."

"Here's success to King & Baird, drink it down, drink it down,
Where the "fat" and the "lean's" well shared, drink it down, &c, &c."

Legal Intelligencer. Friday, July 27, 1855.


See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Legal_Intelligencer/mcqDXqjqalwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22drink+it+down+drink+it+down%22&pg=PA190&printsec=frontcover