Temperance & various vices

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        Down among the

            DEAD MEN

Here's a health to the Queen, and a lasting peace,
To faction an end, to wealth increase;
Come, let's drink it while we have breath,
For there's no drinking after death;
And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

Let charming beauty's health go round,
In whom celestial joys are found;
And may confusion still pursue
The senseless, women-hating crew;
And they that women's health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

In smiling Bacchus' joys I'll roll,
Deny no pleasure to my soul;
Let Bacchus' health round briskly move,
For Bacchus is a friend to Love;
And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

May love and wine their rights maintain,
And their united pleasures reign ;
While Bacchus' treasure crowns the board,
We'll sing the joys that both afford;
And they that won't with us comply,
Down among the dead men let them lie.

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OLD DAN TUCKER.

I came across de ocean wide,
To live wid a gemman on t'oder side ;
'Xpected to breakfast, dine, and sup,
When wid dese harsh words he chaw'd me up :
                    Git out ob de way Old Dan Tucker,
                    You're too late to come to supper.

I see a yallow bush-a-belle,
But when I come my lub to tell,
And all de pangs she causes me,
What you tink she answer me ?
                    Git out ob de way, &c.

I 'fraid I don't look well a-dancing,
'Cos my legs too much a slanting :
'Rub 'em well wid gin-and-water,
Soon come straight,—so says de doctor.
                    Out ob de way, Old Dan Tucker,
                    Don't go dancing arter supper.

I go to dance so hard one night,
I dance myself clean out ob sight;
Next morning early my head was found
Sticking upright, an' my body in de ground.
                    Git out ob de way, &c.

          WALKER, PRINTER, DURHAM.
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