[Dixielandjazz] Lyrics

[Chris Calabrese]

Bob, I found a copy of the actual sheet music online here:
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0120_01.html

Two verses, one chorus. Wordy by Edward Laska, music by Al Von Tilzer.
Copyright MCMXIX (1919), so now public domain.

[VERSE]
I love my country, 'deed I do,
But oh, that war has made be blue,
I like fightin', that's my name,
But fightin' is the least about the fightin' game.
When Mister Hoover said to cut my dinner down,
I never even hesitate, I never frown;
I cut my sugar, I cut my coal,
But now they dug deep in my soul.

[CHORUS]
I've got the blues, I've got the blues,
I've got the alcoholic blues.
No more beer my heart to cheer;
Goodbye whiskey, you used to make me frisky.
So long high-ball, so long gin.
Oh tell me when you comin' back again?
Blues, I've got the blues,
Since they amputated my booze.
Lordy Lordy, war is well,
You know I don't have to tell
Oh, I've got the alcoholic blues,
some blues.

[VERSE]
Prohibition that's the name,
Prohibition drives me insane.
I'm so thirsty, soon I'll die,
I'm simply going to 'vaporate, I'm just that dry.
I wouldn't mind to live forever in a trench,
Just if my daily thirst they only let me quench;
And not with Bevo or Gingerale,
I want the real stuff by the pail.

~ Chris Calabrese

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <ringwald at calweb.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Lyrics


> Does anyone have words to "Alcoholic Blues?"
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