Rosin the Bow
Traditional
I’ve traveled this world all over
and now to another must go
I know that good quarters are waiting
for to welcome old Rosin the Bow.
To welcome old Rosin the Bow,
to welcome old Rosin the Bow.
I know that good quarters are waiting,
for to welcome old Rosin the Bow.
When I’m dead and laid out on the counter
a voice you will hear from below.
Saying, “Send down a hogshead of whiskey
to drink with old Rosin the Bow.”
To drink with old Rosin the Bow,
to drink with old Rosin the Bow.
Saying “Send down a hogshead of whiskey,
to drink with old Rosin the Bow.”
And get a half dozen stout fellows
and stack them all up in a row.
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles
to the memory of Rosin the Bow.
To the memory of Rosin the Bow,
to the memory of Rosin the Bow.
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles,
to the memory of Rosin the Bow.
Now get this half dozen stout fellows
and let them all stagger and go.
And dig a great hole in the meadow
and in it put Rosin the Bow.
And in it put Rosin the Bow
and in it put Rosin the Bow.
And dig a great hole in the meadow,
and in it put Rosin the Bow.
Now get ye a couple of bottles
put one at me head and me toe.
With a diamond ring scratch out upon them
the name of old Rosin the Bow.
The name of old Rosin the Bow,
the name of old Rosin the Bow.
With a diamond ring s cratch out upon them,
the name of old Rosin the Bow.
