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Thread #49380 Message #4225444
Posted By: GUEST,Jim McLean
10-Jul-25 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ye Mariners All / A Jug of This
Subject: RE: Origins: Ye Mariners All / A Jug of This
This version was printed in Glasgow in 1799 called A Jorum of This. YE tippling fouls, as ye pass by, Step in and taste, I know you're dry, And when you've done, don't take't amiss, To pawn your shirt for a jug of this.
Now gentlemen before you call, I can neither write on board nor wall, For the meaning of my song is this, I can't trust you a quart of this.
It's you that have got half a crown, Are kindly welcome to sit down, And if you have got your money flush, You may prime your nose o'er a jug of this.
You gods that sees a future state, Some other beasts may have their fate; May the gods transform me to fish, That I might swim in a jug of this.
Was I cast on some distant shore, Where do the foaming billows roar, For my desire would be in this, To a lovely lass and a jug of this.
Yet was I sick, both pale and wan, And scarcely able for to stand, All my own cure could be in this, A lovely lass and a jug of this.
When I am dead and laid in my grave, No corse-like-tomb-stone let me have; Give me my desire and crown my wish, Drink o'er my grave a hogshead of this.