
Date of issue: 31.12.2002
Song language: English
Jug of Punch |
One evening in the month of June |
As I was sitting in my room |
A small bird sat on an ivy bunch |
And the song he sang was «The Jug Of Punch.» |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay, |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay |
A small bird sat on an ivy bunch |
And the song he sang was «The Jug Of Punch.» |
What more diversion can a man desire? |
Than to sit him down by an alehouse fire |
Upon his knee a pretty wench |
And upon the table a jug of punch. |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay, |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay |
Upon his knee a pretty wench |
And on the table a jug of punch. |
Let the doctors come with all their art |
They’ll make no impression upon my heart |
Even a cripple forgets his hunch |
When he’s snug outside of a jug of punch. |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay, |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay |
Even a cripple forgets his hunch |
When he’s snug outside of a jug of punch. |
And if I get drunk, well, me money’s me own |
And them don’t like me they can leave me alone |
I’ll chune me fiddle and I’ll rosin me bow |
And I’ll be welcome wherever I go. |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay, |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay |
I’ll chune me fiddle and I’ll rosin me bow |
And I’ll be welcome wherever I go. |
And when I’m dead and in my grave |
No costly tombstone will I crave |
Just lay me down in my native peat |
With a jug of punch at my head and feet. |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay, |
Too ra loo ra loo, too ra loo ra lay |
Just lay me down in my native peat |
With a jug of punch at my head and feet. |