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Title
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Joke and push about the pitcher
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Singer
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Sawyer, David [Phoebus]
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'A very old song. Obtained of David Sawyer, late of Ogbourne.'
Williams, Alfred: FSUT: 'A very old song. Obtained of David Sawyer.'
Note 2
In the manuscript and WGS the text is as follows:
Verse 1
I dearly love a hearty man -
No sniggering milk sop Jimmy Twitcher -
That loves a lass, and loves a glass,
And loudly calls for another pitcher.
Chorus
It's not yet day. It's not yet day.
Why should we forsake good liquor?
And, if my midnight glass runs right,
There's time to drink another pitcher.
Verse 2
They say that we must work all day,
And sleep at night to wake much richer;
But what is all the world does say
Compared to mirth, my friend, and pitcher.
Chorus
It's not yet day. It's not yet day.
Why should we forsake good liquor?
Until the sunbeams round us play,
Let's joke and push about the pitcher.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
