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THB BARTENDER'S GUIDE AND SONG BOOK
Old King Cole
Old King Colr
i·
as a merry old sou l,
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and hr called fo r h ·s git. ss,
And he called f or his fiddlers three.
There was Paga11ini and Spagnioletti,
A nd to make up th e three, Mori;
For K ing Cole he was fo11d of a trio,
F ond of a trio was he.
Chorus.
For old Ki11g Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and he called for his glass,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Old King Cole, though a merry old soul,
Now to read nor to write cou ld he;
The
Singing
Waiter
For to read or to write,
it
was useless quite,
W hen he kept a secretary.
o his mark for "R ex" was a simple "X,"
And his drink was ditto double;
For he scorned the fetters of twenty-six letters,
And it saved him a vast deal of trouble.
Chorus.
Old King Cole drank so much alcohol
That he reeked like the worm of a still;
A 11d while lighting his pipe, he set himself alight,
A nd blew up like a gunpowder mill.
.1.s these are the whole, of records of King Cole,
} rom the Ancient L ibrary:
If you like, you can see'em, in the British
Museum
In Russell Street, Bloomsbury.
Chorus.
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