“Love and Whisky”
Description
"Love and whisky both, Rejoice an honest fellow." If love leaves a jealous pang or whisky a headache "take another sup" as cure. "May the smiles of love Cheer our lads so clever; And, with whisky, boys, We'll drink King George for ever"
Notes
Croker-PopularSong: "The most popular song of the heyday of Irish Volunteerism [beginning 1780] and which song continued a general favourite until the dissolution of the Irish Yeomanry Corps [started to decline about 1812 according to "County Armagh Yeomanry Corps" by Samuel Lutton at the Craigavon Historical Society site]."
Cross references
- cf. "Bobbin Joan" (tune, according to Croker-PopularSongs)
References
- Croker-PopularSongs, pp. 73-74, "Love and Whisky" (1 text)
- BI, CkPS073