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Row In A Public House

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

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Row In A Public House

"Row In A Public House", a song preserved in a scrapbook entitled Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850 which is held at the Mitchell Library.

This comic song is about two drunks arguing and insulting each other in a pub, "slitterin', splutterin', stammerin', stutter." The row is rooted in a disagreement over who is "on the bell" and appears to be resolved when the two "sponges" agree to pay for their own drinks.

Reference: GC 398.5 GLA

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning

Keywords:
drinking, fighting, fights, folks songs, lyrics, Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850, poetry, pubs, Row In A Public House, Sporting Life, street songs, taverns



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