A Tankard Of Ale - online songbook

An Anthology 120 Of Drinking Songs - Lyrics
Compiled And Edited By Theodore Maynard

Published By Erskine MacDonald, Ltd. London, circa 1919

About This Book
With the advent of the social reformer the very word ' beer ' seems to have taken on a sinister sound, and is as much tabooed in polite society as the word ' trousers ' was once said to have been. This harmless and refresh­ing drink has become credited with the most devilish properties and characteristics, so that when it has to be discussed (and Heaven only knows how much the thought of it disturbs the minds of meddlesome philanthropists!) it must be referred to under the alias of ' alcohol' or ' the drinking habits of the lower classes.' Officialdom has beer on the brain—which is quite the wrong place for beer to be. There is little wonder then that convivialty is a lost art and that in consequence the making of drinking songs has suffered a bad decline. ' Simon the Cellarer,' it is true, may still be allowed even among Nonconformists, but as it deals with ' Sack ' and ' Canary ' no real Puritan objection can be raised.

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A Tankard Of Ale, Contents & Page Numbers. Deduct 100 from the numbers show to get the original page numbers from the book.

Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication INTRODUCTION Page - 0005 Page - 0006 Page - 0007 Page - 0008 Page - 0009 Page - 0010 Page - 0011 Page - 0012 Page - 0013 Page - 0014 Page - 0015 CONTENTS Page - 0017 Page - 0018 Page - 0019 Page - 0020 Reasons for Drinking, Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare. - 0127 Page - 0128 A Catch in Four Parts - 0129 Come, Landlord, Fill a Flowing Bowl - 0130 A Health to all Good Fellowes - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 The Merry Fellows - 0135 Hermit Hoar, in Solemn Cell, With an Honest Old Friend. - 0136 Song of the Mug - 0137 Page - 0138 Make Me a Bowl - 0139 Page - 0140 Tosse the Pot. - 0141 All You that are Good Fellows - 0142 Page - 0143 Good Ale for My Money, - 0144 Page - 0145 I Am the Jolly Prince of Drinkers - 0146 Page - 0147 The World Drowned in a Glass - 0148 Prithee Fill Me my Glass. - 0149 Song From The Duenna. - 0150 The Toper's Rant. - 0151 Booze is There - 0152 Page - 0153 Three Men of Gotham. - 0154 Glee from Headlong Hall. - 0155 Song from Headlong Hall. - 0156 We'll Dine and Drink, Song. (Gerald Cumberland) - 0157 Page - 0158 Cast Away Care. - 0159 Drink To-day, Drinking Commended. - 0160 The Jovial Drinker - 0161 The Tippling Philosophers - 0162 Page - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 The Three Pigeons. - 0166 Fill the Goblet Again. - 0167 Page - 0168 Goldthread's Song. - 0169 Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. - 0170 The Mermaid Inn. - 0171 Anacreontiques, No. 2 - 0172 The Jolly Bacchanal - 0173 Come, Thou Monarch of the Vine, Bacchus. - 0174 Page - 0175 Bacchus' Health - 0176 A Song on Bacchus - 0177 A Drinking Song. - 0178 A Bacchanal, To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses. - 0179 Page - 0180 Page - 0181 A Round. - 0182 Here's a Health, A Catch Royal. - 0183 Down Among the Dead Men. - 0184 Song from The School for Scandal. - 0185 One Bumper at Parting. - 0186 A Dialogue - 0187 The Epicure. - 0188 Drink ! Drink ! the Red, Red Wine, The Stoop of Rhenish. - 0189 Page - 0190 Drinking Song on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine. - 0191 Song in Praise of Ale - 0192 In Praise of Ale - 0193 Bryng us in Good Ale - 0194 Page - 0195

Wassail - 0196 The Nut-Brown Ale, Ballad on Ale. - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 I Likes a Drop of Good Beer, I Does. - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 Beer, Boys, Beer - 0203 The Beer-drinking Briton - 0204 English Bright Beer - 0205 A Glass of Old English Ale. - 0206 Glorious Beer - 0207 English Ale. - 0208 Beer. - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 Page - 0213 Cider Apples, A Cider Song. - 0214 Inishowen. - 0215 Rum and Milk. - 0216 Captain Stratton's Fancy. - 0217 Page - 0218 The Leather Bottel - 0219 Page - 0220 Page - 0221 There was a Poor Smith - 0222 Page - 0223 Page - 0224 Joan's Ale was New - 0225 Page - 0226 Page - 0227 Do Nothing but Eat, With Never a Penny of Money. - 0228 Come, all you Jolly Watermen - 0229 Three Man Song. - 0230 The Cobblers' Catch. - 0231 The Hop Planter's Song - 0232 The Churn Supper - 0233 The Country Farmer's Vain Glory - 0234 The Barley Mow - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Harvest Songs - 0239 St. Giles's Bowl - 0240 Page - 0241 From New Year's Day. - 0242 Page - 0243 The Monks of the Screw. - 0244 Friar's Song. - 0245 The Ghosts. - 0246 The Friar, i - 0247 Commanders of the Faithful. - 0248 The Little Vagabond. | - 0249 Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes. - 0250 The Toper, The Jolly Toper - 0251 Page - 0252 Now I'm Resolved to Love no More. - 0253 In Praise of the Bottle. - 0254 Page - 0255 Song of a Fallen Angel over a Bowl of Rum-Punch. - 0256 Song of the Pelagian Heresy. - 0257 Page - 0258 Wine and Water. - 0259 Page - 0260 The Rolling English Road. - 0261 A (Temperance) Drinking Song. - 0262 Page - 0263 Page - 0264 A Song of Time's Meridian. - 0265 Drinking Song. - 0266 Page - 0267 Triolet of Deplorable Sentiments, Ballade of the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street. - 0268 Page - 0269 Ballade of Liquid Refreshment. - 0270 A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan. - 0271 A Ballade of Professional Pride. - 0272 Page - 0273 Ballade in Praise of Arundel. - 0274 I've Bin to Plymouth, Nottingham Ale - 0275 Page - 0276 Warrington Ale - 0277 West Sussex Drinking Song. - 0278 Drinking Song. - 0279 Page - 0280 MIHI EST PROPOSITUM. - 0281 De admirandis viri virtutibus - 0282 Back and Side go Bare, go Bare (Trans.) - 0283 Page - 0284