If I Drink Water while This Doth Last
- Genre: Folk
- Time: 02:06
- Released: 1/23/2008
- Label: Informalmusic
- Album: demo
- Credits: words by Thomas Love Peacock; music by Informal
- Artist: Deadman Turner
- Location: AUSTRALIA-Oceania: Australia: Tasmania
- Sounds Like: Rock
Song Information:
This setting of a song by Thomas Love Peacock (from his novel, Crotchet Castle), was recorded, rather hurriedly. on the evening of 23 January, to commemorate the death of Peacock on this day in 1866. For the context of the words, see the end of Chapter VI of Crotchet Castle.
Song Lyrics:
If I drink water while this doth last,
May I never again drink wine:
For how can a man, in his life of a span,
Do any thing better than dine?
We'll dine and drink, and say if we think
That any thing better can be;
And when we have dined, wish all mankind
May dine as well as we.
And though a good wish will fill no dish,
And brim no cup with sack,
Yet thoughts will spring, as the glasses ring,
To illume our studious track.
On the brilliant dreams of our hopeful schemes
The light of the flask shall shine;
And we'll sit till day, but we'll find the way
To drench the world with wine.
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