Beer de DBeer.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3021, 21 October 1878, Page 2

Beer de DBeer.

Johnny Ballance Bear de Beer/ i „ < Of ale ye shall not win renown; Ye thought to load aitch brewer's etrt^ - Wid thin " B he oak ". about the town. The swipes wor spiled be brewers riled, They saw the snare wid frenzy fired j - ■ Deeihroyer ay a hundred barr'ls, -. „ Ye are not' one to be admired. ' ' Johnny Ballanoe Beer de Beer,. - ■ I know yer proud to make a name; ■> -■ Yer pride, me boy, is mighty fine, Be gog we're spiled yer little game: For beer we make a tax you'd take, Ye thried to woo us wid yer charms, ;. ■ ' The Bimple hop, whin out o' flower, Produces tie, an' yeast, an' harass V =-, Johnny Ballanct Beer de Beer, _ S? me **** dodge yuJH have to find: Perhaps ye'd befcther tax the fizz'; J " Thethrue deep-sinkers wouldn't miad \ .The Bill ye'd more, we know would prove -> f«ln»r?wha*;can jou reply, The lym' on yoor fancy rates, .. I , Ye know, me boy, i« all me 1., Johnny Ballance Beer de Beer, : ' Ye'd take the brains from aitch hoffihead: Shuremalt would be too dear aloae^TT^ 5 \ We'd hare to put in dhrugs instead j The price ye'd rise on thim that buys, A grate fine- ansher' you may be There's cobwebsin, the toiler's throat. Which you would hardly ©are to%eo. Johnny Ballance Beer deßeer, <'r; *■?: Yer mate, hare given ye the sluei Why, even to* bethrayed his kind, An Toted 'gainst youriaxau' you; Och, be the hokey,'twas, absurd ' To make the poor man's cenfert dear i?', Begrudgm' him the crimson nose Which marks the caete o' Beer de Betr. Johnny Ballance Beer de Beer, - „"'-..' There stands no barmaid in yer halL The brand o' " Blood»' is at yer doe£ ■' ,: I Ye don't dhriak home-made swipes at all t Ye take a course, without remorse, ;Av Guineas' fr#m yer natife earth,' ":* Bekase yer heart is over there In. that, green island »rT«i birth.- ; '; -, Trust me, Ballance Beer de Beer, '■ Our mates had lots o' prieints siot| Aitoh grand ould Brewer, 'pon me life, jHatgraised the, paws of many a ginl • , S Howe'er it be, a jolly spree, .; '"" s J Jwt now and then, I think is good: : Tankards are more than coronets,Colonial ale than '.B. ass,l or € Blood.".; .' I know ye, Ballanoe Bear de Beer,'' *" "' * Ye thry to build up airy towers; Yethrusted well—alas, not wise—v '■ -- ■-- Too much in yer persuasire powers j :' i Sew Zayland> health, for v want ar wealth, '■ Is siokeriin' ar'a tight disaise, '•'''■ ■' ;< Ye dale so ill wid mint an' time,- .- - Ye do not tax the thing that pays. Ballance, Ballance Biirdeßaer,' If sugar's short upon yer hands, Are there no absentees to rate? L ■■ 1 No idle runs P no wasted litadtP* " Go, taich the squatthers how to bleed, Unless they lam to plough an!iow |:•! ; :, * V Go, taioh the millionaires to part, An'let the yeomanVliquor go. r ,J ; ....„, ;t ' .PaDDT. MtJIPHT. —Dunedin Saturday Adrertiser. i?< i°- '