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Toast
Here's to the girls who say they will
Here's to the girls who say they won't
But to hell with the girls who say they will
and later you find out they don't.
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Where learned: ILLINOIS
Keyword(s): DATING ; DRINKING ; Girls ; Innuendo ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to the ones who say they will,
Here's to the ones who say they won't
And here's to the ones who say they will but
When you get them alone they don't.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN
Keyword(s): Boys ; DATING ; DRINKING ; Girls ; Innuendo ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
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Toast
Verse With Drink:
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
If you drink good booze, Your pipes won't rust.
Submitter comment:
I heard this as a toast before drinking.
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James Callow comment:
Original Title read [Verse Without Music]. Crossed out and replaced with current title.
Original BN [C700; N400; C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.
Keyword(s): Booze ; DRINKING ; Pipes ; Rust ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Down the hatch/ Past the tongue./ Watch out belly/ Here it comes!
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANATOMY ; BELLY ; DRINKING ; Social ; TOAST ; TONGUE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to you and here's to me / May we never disagree / But if we do (to Hell with you!) / And here's to me.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C702] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
May I never be above you / May I never be beneath you / May I always be on the level with you.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Above ; Beneath ; DRINKING ; Level ; Relation ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Proverb
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; Mouth ; PROVERB ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Many a slip, twixt the cup and the lip.
Submitter comment:
This proverb means that anything can happen from the time you start something until you finish it.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Toast
Here's to you as good as you are, here's to me as bad as I am. As good as you are and as bad as I am I'm as good as you are as bad as I am.
Submitter comment:
An old drinking refrain uttered at the 20's
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
NOT in verse form
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Bad ; CHARACTER ; DRINKING ; Good ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; TOAST ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
MARY MARGARET TRUMAN WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE PRESIDENT,
LA-DE-DA
SHE LIVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH HER UGLY MOTHER BESS.
HER SOCIAL POSITION WAS NOT VERY HIGH
AND SHE WAS A MEMBER OF I PHELTA THIGH!
BACK IN 1952 WHEN HARRY GOT THE SHOE, LA-DE-DA
THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT FOR MARY MARGARET TO DO.
SO SHE WENT TO MISSOURI TO WORK IN A BREWERY
SO DRINK MORE BEER!
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): DRINKING SONG ; PRESIDENT ; RHYME ; Sorority ; TOAST ; Truman
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
HAD A LITTLE MONKEY,
SAT HIM ON A DONKEY,
FED HIM SOME GINGERBREAD,
ALONG CAME A COUPLE,
HIT HIM ON THE KNUCKLE,
NOW MY MONKEY'S DEAD.
Submitter comment:
THIS RHYME WAS AND STILL SUNG BY SYD'S AUNT MARGE USUALLY WHEN DRUNK.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DONKEY ; DRINKING SONG ; Gingerbread ; Monkey ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1980 ; 00-00-1950