Water Is Alright In Tay

C G The French drink wine, the English tea C G C The Yankee gulps his hot black coffee C G The child drinks milk nine times a day C G C The Scotsman sips his whiskey toddy C G You can keep you wine and keep your tea! C G C My curse on him that brings me coffee! F G I'll have porter, if I may C G C It makes me feel content and happy C G Porter quaffed down with a laugh C G C The gentry have their aching livers C C Water is all right in tea C G C For fish, and things that swim in rivers C G The poor man and the beggar, too C G C The poet in the corner thinking F G If they had money enough to spend C G C It's pints of porter they'd be drinking C G Porter quaffed down with a laugh C G C The gentry have their aching livers C G Water is all right in tea C G C For fish, and things that swim in rivers C G The miser hoards and stores his gold C G C The bee collects the summer honey F G When that miser's dead and cold C G C Someone else will kiss his money! C G Porter quaffed down with a laugh C G C The gentry have their aching livers C G Water is all right in tea C G C For fish, and things that swim in rivers C G Some go in for counting beads C G C More go in for chasing women F G C The scholar stays at home and reads C G C Give me the glass with porter in it C G Porter quaffed down with a laugh C G C The gentry have their aching livers C G Water is all right in tea C G C For fish, and things that swim in rivers