Lyrics And Borrowed Tunes of the American Temperance by Paul D. Sanders
By Paul D. Sanders
Cold water is the drink for me / Of all of the beverages the easiest, sir; / Your grog, of whate’er identify it's, / I dare now not for to flavor, sir.
Such a lyric, sung to the music of “Yankee Doodle,” was once ordinary ammunition within the temperance movement’s conflict opposed to alcohol. By the 1830s, americans drank a normal of 9.5 gallons of tough liquor every year. From the 1840s till the start of Prohibition, good over 100 temperance songbooks have been released within which inspirational lyrics have been set to ordinarily borrowed tunes within the desire of persuading voters to place down the bottle.
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Crime, grog-shops, whiskey-dens and bars, With gin, the fiend that serves them, Must yield before young Yankee hearts, For Yankee freedom nerves them. To Chorus66 Bands of Hope Are Growing Stronger 1. Now don’t you know the reason why The Temperance cause is winning? Our Bands of Hope resolve to try The pledge when life’s beginning. 64. Fillmore, Temperance Musician, 242. 65. , 124. 66. , The Juvenile Temperance Harp, 35. Guthrie, Teetotal Army, 11, entitles this selection “We’ll Stand by Water Pure” and omits verse 4.
To Chorus 58. Ohio State Prohibition, 15. 59. A. Bensel, The Temperance Harp, 23–24. 5. Henceforth we strike in Freedom’s name, We heed not scoffs or jeers now, We light no more Rum’s lurid flame; Nor shed pale sorrow’s tears now. To Chorus 6. Our wives, our children, bless the day We signed the “Declaration,” And hail the glorious Temp’rance ray, That banished dissipation. To Chorus59 Cold Water Is the Drink 1. Cold water is the drink for me, Of all the drinks the best, sir; Your grog, of whate’er name it be, I dare not for to taste, sir.
His hand in beauty gives Each flower and plant that lives, Each sunny rill. Springs! which our footsteps meet— Fountains! our lips to greet— Waters! whose taste is sweet, On rock and hill. 3. So let each thoughtful child Drink of this fountain mild, From early youth; Then shall the song we raise, Be heard in future days, Ours be the pleasant ways Of peace and truth. 4. Now let each heart and hand Of all this youthful band, United, move! 25 Overthrow of Alcohol 1. It comes, the joyful day, When alcohol’s proud sway, A curse to man— Shall to the ground be hurled; The Temp’rance flag unfurled Shall wave through the world In ev’ry land.