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PRINCETON TOAST by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD

First Line: I WISH I HAD A BARREL OF RUM
Last Line: TO DROWN TROUBLE IN?
Subject(s): DRINKS & DRINKING; WINE;
I wish I had a barrel of rum
And sugar three hundred pound,
With the chapel bell to put it in
And the clapper to stir it 'round.
I'd drink to the health of Nassau, boys,
And the girls both far and near,
For I'm a rambling rake of poverty,
And a son of a Gambolier.

God made man
Frail as a bubble,
God made Love,
Love made trouble.
God made the Vine,
Was it any sin
That man made wine
To drown trouble in?



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