A Tankard of Ale - An Anthology of Drinking Songs

Theodore Maynard

• Publisher: Vintage Cookery Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781473328112
• eBook ISBN: 9781473339200
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: World History

This vintage book contains an extensive anthology of historical drinking songs. It includes an interesting introduction, fascinating historical information, and a vast collection of complete classic drinking songs. Contents include: "Reasons for Drinking", "Back and Side go Bare, Go Bare", "A Catch in Four Parts", "Come, Landlord, Fill a Flowing Bowl", "A Health to all Good Fellows", "The Merry Fellows", "Hermit Hoar, in Solemn Cell", "With an Honest Old Friend", "Song of the Mug", "Make Me a Bowl", "Tosse the Pot", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commission new introduction on beer brewing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Beer Brewing
• Introduction
• Contents
• Reasons for Drinking.
• Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare.
• A Catch in Four Parts
• Come, Landlord, Fill a Flowing Bowl
• A Health to all Good Fellowes
• The Merry Fellows
• Hermit Hoar, in Solemn Cell.
• With an Honest Old Friend.
• Song of the Mug
• Make Me a Bowl
• Tosse the Pot.
• All You that are Good Fellows
• Good Ale for My Money.
• I Am the Jolly Prince of Drinkers
• The World Drowned in a Glass
• Prithee Fill Me my Glass.
• Song From “The Duenna.”
• The Toper’s Rant.
• Booze is There
• Three Men of Gotham.
• Glee from “Headlong Hall.”
• Song from “Headlong Hall.”
• We’ll Dine And Drink.
• Song.
• Cast Away Care.
• Drink To-day.
• Drinking Commended.
• The Jovial Drinker
• The Tippling Philosophers
• The Three Pigeons.
• Fill the Goblet Again.
• Goldthread’s Song.
• Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.
• The Mermaid Inn.
• Anacreontiques, No. 2
• The Jolly Bacchanal
• Come, Thou Monarch of the Vine.
• Bacchus.
• Bacchus’ Health
• A Song on Bacchus
• A Drinking Song.
• A Bacchanal
• To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses
• A Round.
• Here’s a Health.
• A Catch Royal.
• Down Among the Dead Men.
• Song from “The School for Scandal.”
• One Bumper at Parting.
• A Dialogue
• The Epicure.
• Drink! Drink! the Red, Red Wine
• The Stoop of Rhenish.
• Drinking Song on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine.
• Song in Praise of Ale
• In Praise of Ale
• Bryng us in Good Ale
• Wassail
• The Nut-Brown Ale.
• Ballad on Ale.
• I Likes A Drop of Good Beer, I Does.
• Beer, Boys, Beer
• The Beer-drinking Briton
• English Bright Beer
• A Glass of Old English Ale.
• Glorious Beer
• English Ale.
• Beer.
• Cider Apples.
• A Cider Song.
• Inishowen.
• Rum and Milk.
• Captain Stratton’s Fancy.
• The Leather Bottel
• There was A Poor Smith
• Joan’s Ale was New
• Do Nothing but Eat.
• With Never a Penny of Money.
• Come, all you Jolly Watermen
• Three Man Song.
• The Cobblers’ Catch.
• The Hop Planter’s Song
• The Churn Supper
• The Country Farmer’s Vain Glory
• The Barley Mow
• Harvest Songs
• St. Giles’s Bowl
• From “New Year’s Day.”
• The Monks of the Screw.
• Friar’s Song.
• The Ghosts.
• The Friar.
• Commanders of the Faithful.
• The Little Vagabond.
• Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes.
• The Toper.
• The Jolly Toper
• Now I’m Resolved to Love no More.
• In Praise of the Bottle.
• Song of A Fallen Angel over a Bowl of Rum-Punch.
• Song of the Pelagian Heresy.
• Wine and Water.
• The Rolling English Road.
• A Drinking Song.
• A Song of Time’s Meridian.
• Drinking Song.
• Triolet of Deplorable Sentiments.
• Ballade of the “Cheshire Cheese” in Fleet Street.
• Ballade of Liquid Refreshment.
• A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan.
• A Ballade of Professional Pride.
• Ballade in Praise of Arundel.
• I’ve Bin To Plymouth
• Nottingham Ale
• Warrington Ale
• West Sussex Drinking Song.
• Drinking Song.
• Latin Songs—
• Index of First Lines