Little Brown Jug　茶色の小瓶

作詞・作曲

この曲の作者はアメリカの作曲家で音楽出版者のジョセフ・イーストバーン・ウィナー（Joseph Eastburn Winner, c.1837–1918）です。
彼の最も知られている曲が『Little Brown Jug』です。

歌詞

My wife and I live all alone,
In a little log hut, we called our own
She loved gin, and I loved rum
I tell you what we'd lots of fun.

Chorus:
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!

'Tis you that makes my friends and foes,
'Tis you that makes me wear old clothes;
But here you are so near my nose,
So tip her up and down she goes.

Chorus

When I go toiling on my farm
I take the little jug under my arm;
I place it 'neath a shady tree,
Little brown jug, 'tis you and me.

Chorus

If all the folks in Adam's race
Were gathered together in one place,
I'd let them go without a tear
Before I'd part from you, my dear.

Chorus

If I'd a cow that gave such milk,
I'd dress her in the finest silk;
Feed her on the choicest hay,
And milk her forty times a day.

Chorus

I bought a cow from Farmer Jones,
And she was nothing but skin and bones;
I fed her up as fine as silk,
She jumped the fence and strained her milk.

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And when I die don't bury me at all,
Just pickle my bones in alcohol;
Put a bottle o' booze at my head and feet
And then I know that I will keep.

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The rose is red, my nose is too,
The violet's blue and so are you;
And yet, I guess, before I stop,
We'd better take another drop.

Chorus

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とても楽しい曲ですね。
私もそうですが、インストゥルメンタルの方を知っている人のが多いでしょうね。
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　注）歌詞は若干違うようです。

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インストゥルメンタルの演奏です。