View source for Annotation:Love and Lager Beer

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|f_annotation='''LOVE AND LAGER BEER.''' American, Air or Country Dance (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD. Boston publisher Elias Howe prints directions for a contra dance along with the tune. The piece may once have been a song. This verse appears in poet and lyricist '''Leontine Stanfield's Book of Verse''' (New York, 1906, p. 53):
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''Now the thing we call love is like lager beer,''<br>
''Only good when it's fresth on tap, I fear.''<br>
''Out of cut glass and silver of course it's nice,''<br>
''If you can afford it and have the price;''<br>
''But you'll find any day when your purse is small,''<br>
''That from pewter it's better than no beer at all.''<br>
''The one thing important, and this is no 'con',''<br>
''Is to get your drink quick, while the thirst is on.''<br>
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|f_printed_sources=Howe ('''Musician's Omnibus, No. 1'''), 1863; p. 47. Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 82.
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