Goodbye Booze 1901

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Aug 2006
2006

According to his uncle's will
Jim Harris was an heir,
He lacked a hundred thousand cash
to be a millionaire.
He bought himself the swellest clothes
and diamonds by the score,
the ladies all went crazy
'bout the jewels Harris wore,
He dined on duck and terrapin
and wine at every meal.
One day, he said:
"I wonder what's this awful pain I feel?"
The doctor came and called it gout,
Jim laid in bed and groaned:
"You'll have to cut your drinking out!"
'Twas then that Harris moaned:

It's goodbye booze, forever more!
My drinking days are surely o'er,
We've had good times I will agree
but just look what it's done for me;
so Goodbye Booze forever more.

It's goodbye booze, forever more!
My drinking days are surely o'er,
We've had good times I will agree
but just look what it's done for me;
so Goodbye Booze forever more.

He kept his word
and didn't drink
for 'bout six months or more,
his friends all said
they'd never seen him
look so well before.
One Christmas Day
he met some friends
that formerly he knew,
and just for sociability,
he took a drink or two,
that drink or two led on to more,
and soon poor Jim was tight,
He walk'd into the wrong room
at his hotel that same night.
The man thought Jim a burglar
and he beat him black and blue.
Next day, in bed,
Jim held his head and says:
"I'm telling you true:"

It's goodbye booze, forever more!
My drinking days are surely o'er,
We've had good times I will agree
but just look what it's done for me;
so Goodbye Booze forever more.

It's goodbye booze, forever more!
My drinking days are surely o'er,
We've had good times I will agree
but just look what it's done for me;
so Goodbye Booze forever more.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Goodbye Booze 1901
A Coon Temperance Ditty
Words & Music by Jean C.Havez
© MCMI by Jos W.Stern & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 28 August 2006 at 10.14pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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