Rosin the Beau

By: Traditional

Verse 1

I've traveled all over this world And now to another I go And I know that good quarters are waiting To welcome old Rosin the Beau

Chorus 1

To welcome old Rosin the Beau To welcome old Rosin the Beau And I know that good quarters are waiting To welcome old Rosin the Beau

Verse 2

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 Beau

Verse 3

Then get a half dozen stout fellas And stack them all up in a row Let them drink outta half-gallon bottles To the memory of Rosin the Beau

Verse 4

Then get this half dozen stout fellas And let them all stagger and go And dig a great hole in the meadow And in it put Rosin the Beau

Verse 5

Then get ye a couple of bottles Put one at me head and me toe With a diamond ring scratch upon it The name of old Rosin the Beau

Verse 6

I hear that old tyrant approaching That cruel remorseless old foe And I lift up me glass in his honor Take a drink with old the Rosin the Beau