{"id":18592,"date":"2023-01-31T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=18592"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:20:14","slug":"come-where-the-booze-is-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/come-where-the-booze-is-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Come where the booze is cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Come where the beer is cheaper<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1890<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>E.W. Rogers \/ A.E. Durandeau <\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN29881<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Charles Coborn<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Jones, Frank; England : West Midlands; 1984<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Last night I went out with some pals, for we'd heard\nThat booze they were giving away,\nBut where this free distribution took place\nThey couldn't with certainty say.\nWe toddled down Regent Street, spotted a place,\nIt's quiet and cosy, said I,\nWe entered but nobody noticed one thing\nThat was that the place was the Cri.\n\nSpoken... When they brought the bill it was as long as a lawyer's. Then the waiters all chanted the chorus of 'Do Not Forget Me' and after paying two men at the door, one for telling us it was a fine night and the other for having to tell him we didn't want a cab, Jenkins said we'd better 'hedge' this is the wrong shop for us.\n\nCome where the booze is cheaper!\nCome where the pots hold more!\nCome where the boss is a bit of a joss!\nCome to the pub next door!<\/em>\n\nThen Tomkins suggested, as we were still dry,\nWe'd leave the gay part of the West,\nAnd he's show us where we could get a cheap drink,\nSaid we, 'Very well, you know best.'\nWe entered and certainly, just for a bob\nIn liquor we nearly got drowned,\nBut when for our watches and trinkets we felt,\nNot one of the things could be found.\n\nSpoken... Hello! said I, Is this a den of thieves? That did it! Round came the landlord, barmen and potmen and their toes were raised and our back premises removed before you could say 'knife'. As one looked at a battered hat, another at a black-eye and I found my trousers would never be fit for 'lumbering' again, we came to the conclusion that booze was not cheap there, so off we started for pastures new, singing rather hazily...\nChorus:\n\nWhen we got thrown out it was just on closing time\nAnd not a drop more could we get.\nThen Tomkins laid odds that he'd knock off the hat\nOf the very first bobby we met.\nWe all took his bet and the bobbies took us,\nAnd charged us next day with assault,\nAnd then the Judge charged us a very stiff price\nFor taking a drop too much malt.\n\nSpoken... The old chappie asked us what we had to say to the charge. 'Well,' said I to the beak,'what do you charge here for booze?' 'Forty shillings a-piece!' said he. 'Why,' said I, 'that's more than the bun shops charge.' 'Well,' said he, 'if you object to paying, you can work it out on the Wheel of Life.' But as we were not in training for gymnastics, we elected to pay, but never again will they have me with the 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' cry of...\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A drinking song made famous by Charles Coborn<\/a>, with words by EW Rogers<\/a> and music by AE Durandeau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traditional singer Frank Jones sang a fragment of the chorus to Roy Palmer in 1984, you can hear it at the British Library site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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