Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I LIKES A DROP OF GOOD BEER, by ANONYMOUS


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I LIKES A DROP OF GOOD BEER, by                    
First Line: Come one and all both great and small
Last Line: "for we likes a drop, etc"
Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale


Come one and all both great and small,
With voices loud and clear,
And let us sing, bless Billy the King,
Who bated the tax upon beer.

Chorus

For I likes a drop of good beer, I do,
I likes a drop of good beer,
And damn his eyes whoever tries
To rob a poor man of his beer!

Let ministers shape the duty on Cape,
And cause Port wine to be dear,
So that they keep the bread and meat cheap,
And gi' us a drop of good beer.

* * *

In harvest field there's nothing can yield
The labouring men such good cheer,
To reap and to mow and to make barley grow,
As to give 'em a skinful of beer,
For they likes a drop, etc.

Long may Queen Victoria reign,
And be to her subjects dear,
And wherever we goes we'll wallop her foes,
Only give us a skinful of beer,
For we likes a drop, etc.





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