{"id":7494,"date":"2012-11-01T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:26:29","slug":"away-with-rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Away With Rum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Away_With_Rum.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Away_With_Rum.mp3\">Away With Rum &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nI played &#8220;Rum by Gum&#8221; on the Chad Mitchell Trio&#8217;s LP &#8220;Mighty Day On Campus&#8221; in 1961. The origin is difficult to determine. It dates back to England in the 1890s and was possibly a music hall song. There&#8217;s a rather lengthy but inconclusive discussion of it <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mudcat.org\/thread.cfm?threadid=108622#2262238\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] We&#8217;re coming, we&#8217;re coming, our [D] brave little [G] band<br \/>\n[G] On the right side of temperance we [D] do take our stand<br \/>\nWe [D] don&#8217;t use [G] tobacco, [D] because we do [G] think<br \/>\n[G] The people who use it are [D] likely to [G] drink<\/p>\n<p>[G] Away, away with rum by gum, [D] with rum by gum, [G] with rum by gum<br \/>\n[G] Away, away with rum by gum, [D] the song of the temperance [G] union<\/p>\n<p>We never eat fruit cake because it has rum<br \/>\nAnd one little taste turns a man to a bum<br \/>\nOh, can you imagine a sorrier sight<br \/>\nThan a man eating fruit cake until he gets tight<\/p>\n<p>Away, away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum<br \/>\nAway, away with rum by gum, the song of the temperance union<\/p>\n<p>We never eat cookies because they have yeast<br \/>\nAnd one little bite turns a man to a beast<br \/>\nOh, can you imagine a sadder disgrace<br \/>\nThan a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face<\/p>\n<p>Away, away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum<br \/>\nAway, away with rum by gum, the song of the temperance union<\/p>\n<p>We never drink water, they put it in gin<br \/>\nOne little sip and a man starts to grin<br \/>\nOh can you imagine the horrible sight<br \/>\nOf a man drinking water and singing all night<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Away With Rum &#8211; Click To Play I played &#8220;Rum by Gum&#8221; on the Chad Mitchell Trio&#8217;s LP &#8220;Mighty Day On Campus&#8221; in 1961. The origin is difficult to determine. It dates back to England in the 1890s and was possibly a music hall song. There&#8217;s a rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Away With Rum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8824,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/8824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}