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1. A merchant there was an arch merry blade

First Line:
A merchant there was an arch merry blade
Last Line:
That the shoe maker never should out measure his last | Derry down &c
DMI number:
20753

2. All hail to the days that merit more praise

First Line:
All hail to the days that merit more praise
Last Line:
And wholly concert with mirth and with sport | To drive the cold winter away | To drive &c
DMI number:
11233

3. All you that ever tasted of Swatfal Hall beer

First Line:
All you that ever tasted of Swatfal Hall beer
Last Line:
And homage and rent to the lord of the manor | Derry down down &c
DMI number:
18820

4. Are you grown so melancholy

First Line:
Are you grown so melancholy
Last Line:
Let the pox be your friend and the plague be your end | And this will cure you
DMI number:
43106

5. At the sign of the horse where old Spintext of course

First Line:
At the sign of the horse where old Spintext of course
Last Line:
And away they both staggered together
DMI number:
31797

6. Bacchus Iacchus fill our brains

First Line:
Bacchus Iacchus fill our brains
Last Line:
As well as bowls with sprightly strains
DMI number:
44183

7. Believe me good folks I work hard at the plough

First Line:
Believe me good folks I work hard at the plough
Last Line:
In peace he enjoys every social desire
DMI number:
31784

8. Brother Pivot how do you I'm sorry to hear

First Line:
Brother Pivot how do you I'm sorry to hear
Last Line:
The movements go well and their pendulums wag
DMI number:
22566

9. Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning

First Line:
Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning
Last Line:
Whilst all speak in praise of the humorous rake | Your learning is little and little your knowledge | Come tope it about you old sots of the college
DMI number:
8921

10. Come let us begin for the clock has struck ten

First Line:
Come let us begin for the clock has struck ten
Last Line:
Whilst liquor enough he that starts before three | deserves to be reckoned an ass an ass | deserves to be reckoned an ass
DMI number:
31801

11. Come drink off your liquor

First Line:
Come drink off your liquor
Last Line:
Of the jolly quart pots and the glasses
DMI number:
44191

12. Come fill up your glasses until they run over

First Line:
Come fill up your glasses until they run over
Last Line:
Come here's here to the best I mean the best wine
DMI number:
20637

13. Come fill with wine this lusty bowl

First Line:
Come fill with wine this lusty bowl
Last Line:
Nor the states of gods above
DMI number:
43942

14. Dear Ireland now it is time to grow wise

First Line:
Dear Ireland now it is time to grow wise
Last Line:
All liquors upon earth | Then toss off your bowls then toss &c
DMI number:
25039

15. Cook Laurel would have the devil his guest

First Line:
Cook Laurel would have the devil his guest
Last Line:
From whence it is called The devil's arse in the peak | with a hey down down a down down
DMI number:
44028

16. Fare ye well all amorous troubles

First Line:
Fare ye well all amorous troubles
Last Line:
Each glass shows us a Bacchus | Love &c
DMI number:
13262

17. From me dear Charles inspired with ale

First Line:
From me dear Charles inspired with ale
Last Line:
The cart would drive and I be hanged | With a fa la la &c
Author:
William Tunstall (Absolute)
DMI number:
9332

18. From twelve years old I oft have been told

First Line:
From twelve years old I oft have been told
Last Line:
For he swore he had left little more than the skin | Of his pudding
DMI number:
44489

19. Good Heraclitus lets have no quarrel

First Line:
Good Heraclitus lets have no quarrel
Last Line:
And rowled the rogue downward to heaven | Which no body can deny
DMI number:
44316

20. Good people come buy

First Line:
Good people come buy
Last Line:
And his juggling Eve may chance lose her own | For an Orange
DMI number:
4935

21. Hark how the drum beats

First Line:
Hark how the drum beats
Last Line:
Of nothing but war we now must think | Yet do nothing rashly | First let us drink | Yet do nothing rashly &c
DMI number:
42722

22. How happy is the prisoner who conquers his fate

First Line:
How happy is the prisoner who conquers his fate
Last Line:
For man is the worlds epitome
DMI number:
42949

23. Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace

First Line:
Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace
Last Line:
And he that doth this health deny | Down among &c
DMI number:
13270

24. Here's a health unto his majesty with a fa la la &c

First Line:
Here's a health unto his majesty with a fa la la &c
Last Line:
Not yet a rope to hang himself with a fa la la &c
DMI number:
43078

25. I cannot eat but little meat

First Line:
I cannot eat but little meat
Last Line:
Whether they be young or old | Back and side go bare &c
DMI number:
44481

26. I am a rogue and a stout one

First Line:
I am a rogue and a stout one
Last Line:
For neighbours I have none sir | Then I do cry good your worship | Bestow some small Denier a | And bravely then at the bouking ken | I'll booze it all in beer a
DMI number:
43071

27. I am a rogue and a stout one

First Line:
I am a rogue and a stout one
Last Line:
For neighbours I have none sir | Which makes me cry | Good your worship good sir | Bestow one small denier sir | And bravely then at the bousing ken | I'll spend it all in beer sir
DMI number:
42462

28. Let's fill with wine this lusty bowl

First Line:
Let's fill with wine this lusty bowl
Last Line:
Nor the states of those above
DMI number:
44174

29. Lets sing as one may say the fate

First Line:
Lets sing as one may say the fate
Last Line:
Which no body can deny
DMI number:
43337

30. My masters and friends who ever intends

First Line:
My masters and friends who ever intends
Last Line:
Twere better to trudge home to honest kind Joan | And then we shall speak to the purpose
DMI number:
11232

31. My jovial companions I think tis a pity

First Line:
My jovial companions I think tis a pity
Last Line:
And punch may be damned this is nectar to me | Derry down &c
DMI number:
25106

32. I sing not of roman or grecian mad games

First Line:
I sing not of roman or grecian mad games
Last Line:
Learn greek and seek glory from hunting the boar | Derry down &c
DMI number:
26598

33. I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece

First Line:
I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece
Last Line:
Thus ends the first part of the ballad of Down | Derry down down hey derry down
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
11871

34. If I live to be old for I find I grow down

First Line:
If I live to be old for I find I grow down
Last Line:
Shall be read on my tomb what is it to me | May I govern &c
DMI number:
20733

35. If sorrow the tyrant invade thy breast

First Line:
If sorrow the tyrant invade thy breast
Last Line:
And shall submit to the mug
DMI number:
15543

36. Let Sol curb his coursers and stretch out the day

First Line:
Let Sol curb his coursers and stretch out the day
Last Line:
The drinking success to our laddie
DMI number:
24775

37. Let soldiers fight for praise and pay

First Line:
Let soldiers fight for praise and pay
Last Line:
Therefore give me the charming bowls
DMI number:
43082

38. Let soldiers fight for prey or praise

First Line:
Let soldiers fight for prey or praise
Last Line:
But they want nothing that are drunk | It's wine pure wine revives sad souls | Therefore give us the cheering bowls
DMI number:
779

39. Now God above that made all things

First Line:
Now God above that made all things
Last Line:
For young beginners need such things | I wish in heaven that soul may dwell | That first devised the leathern bottle
Author:
William Maginn (Speculation)
DMI number:
13754

40. Now God alone that made all things

First Line:
Now God alone that made all things
Last Line:
For young beginners have such things | And I wish in heaven his soul may dwell | That first devised the leather bottle
DMI number:
44070

41. Now God alone that made all things

First Line:
Now God alone that made all things
Last Line:
For young beginners have such things | Then I wish his soul in heaven may dwell | That first devised the leather bottle
DMI number:
6716

42. Now the cock doth cry cock a doodle doo

First Line:
Now the cock doth cry cock a doodle doo
Last Line:
To all who beauty love and business hate
DMI number:
44146

43. One holiday last summer

First Line:
One holiday last summer
Last Line:
And off from her chair dropped Gillian of Croydon | Gillian of Croydon Gillian plump Gillian | Tipsy Gillian of Croydon | Here's the last drop cried Gillian of Croydon | A bumper to Master Will
Author:
Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:
15552

44. Prepare each man his glass in hand

First Line:
Prepare each man his glass in hand
Last Line:
Till George does come again | So Tories they may swing &c
DMI number:
12135

45. Pray pull the ribbon sir

First Line:
Pray pull the ribbon sir
Last Line:
While I can suck a cask
Author:
Henry Carey (Absolute)
DMI number:
15551

46. Sack is the prince of wine

First Line:
Sack is the prince of wine
Last Line:
Of that same sprightly canary
DMI number:
44177

47. See but yesterday's knight how lordly he struts

First Line:
See but yesterday's knight how lordly he struts
Last Line:
And when the drink's stopped you may shut up your wicket | Derry down &c
DMI number:
24505

48. Since there's so small difference twixt drowning and drinking

First Line:
Since there's so small difference twixt drowning and drinking
Last Line:
With our heads in the water or heels in the air | Oh Bacchus &c
DMI number:
13295

49. Since life's but short and time amain

First Line:
Since life's but short and time amain
Last Line:
If he had not been drunk he never could have done it | Then take a merry glass &c
DMI number:
42487

50. The nymph whose charms employ my muse

First Line:
The nymph whose charms employ my muse
Last Line:
To drink her health whose bread we eat | With a fa la &c
DMI number:
25095

51. There's many a blinking verse was made

First Line:
There's many a blinking verse was made
Last Line:
For I think I have told you a tale of a tub | Which no body can deny
DMI number:
43087

52. Tis a pitiful thing that now a days sirs

First Line:
Tis a pitiful thing that now a days sirs
Last Line:
The Jack deserves to be called Sir John | And may they never want for belly nor back | That kept up the trade of the bonny Black Jack
Author:
William Maginn (Speculation)
DMI number:
13755

53. Tis wine that creates

First Line:
Tis wine that creates
Last Line:
For wine can make all things agree for &c
Author:
Charles Coffey (Absolute)
DMI number:
15554

54. Tis wine was made to rule the day

First Line:
Tis wine was made to rule the day
Last Line:
And let me enjoy awake | Let my queen &c
DMI number:
13274

55. Tories are tools of Irish race

First Line:
Tories are tools of Irish race
Last Line:
Let shame and confusion be plagues to all those | That are such tories and rogues in grain
DMI number:
43021

56. Well gentlemen since you will needs have a song

First Line:
Well gentlemen since you will needs have a song
Last Line:
Be like us free and easy but under the rose | Derry down &c
DMI number:
37676

57. What need we take care for platonical rules

First Line:
What need we take care for platonical rules
Last Line:
He'll find nothing but claret in mine | Then let full bowls &c
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
13307

58. When humming brown beer was the Englishman's taste

First Line:
When humming brown beer was the Englishman's taste
Last Line:
Faith nothing at all but meer fiddle dee dee | Oh the brown beer &c
DMI number:
20741

59. When I do travel in the night

First Line:
When I do travel in the night
Last Line:
And I like my humour
DMI number:
43096

60. When I go to revel in the night

First Line:
When I go to revel in the night
Last Line:
And I like my humour well
DMI number:
44054

61. When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food

First Line:
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food
Last Line:
But now we're a I could but goodnight | Oh the roast beef of old England and old English roast beef
DMI number:
20746

62. When mighty roast beef was the englishman's food

First Line:
When mighty roast beef was the englishman's food
Last Line:
But now you're a pack of I could but good night | Oh the roast beef of old England and old English roast beef
DMI number:
17734

63. While a thousand fine projects are planned every day

First Line:
While a thousand fine projects are planned every day
Last Line:
Contrive that the poor may have something to eat
DMI number:
32000

64. Whilst I strut like a lord like my buts I am full

First Line:
Whilst I strut like a lord like my buts I am full
Last Line:
What a friendship I have even for dregs and for lees | Derry down &c
DMI number:
24506

65. Why should I not dally my dear in thine eye

First Line:
Why should I not dally my dear in thine eye
Last Line:
Electar and nectar that flows from thy lip
DMI number:
43878

66. Ye snivelling fools who pine away

First Line:
Ye snivelling fools who pine away
Last Line:
We leave them to reform themselves
DMI number:
31783