by Fenton Johnson (1888 - 1958)
The Drunkard
Language: English
I had a wife but, but she is gone. She left me a week ago. God bless her! I married another in the rear of Mike's saloon. It was a gallon jug of the reddest liquor that ever burned the throat of man. I will be true to my new wife. You can have the other.
Authorship:
- by Fenton Johnson (1888 - 1958) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "The Drunkard", from Three Portraits, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Robert Baksa
This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 57