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Song Lyrics etc

First - nice article

Second - I've added the songs you mention as important to the list of important songs (for consistency)

Third - You cannot have the complete lyrics of songs. As you can imagine wikipedia might get have some very long articles. There is a project called Wikisource that will take song lyrics, books, speeches etc.

Fourthly - I've added some formatting for the lyrics - not finished but it show what might be done

Lastly - nice article, Do push back or ask questions Victuallers (talk) 16:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! It is a wonderful thing to have an editor interested in the same things. Sorry it has taken a year to get back to you. I am also interested in coming up with an article "Temperance plays" which were a regular and standard form of entertainment of the times. Are you interested? Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 16:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

9.5 gallons?

So if beer is 4% alcohol then 9.5 gallons of alcohol is about 200 gallons of beer. I believe there are ten pints in a US gallon so that is 2,000 pints of beer. That is about 5 pints of beer per day every day for every baby, toddler, vicar, nun, little old lady and monk in America. So assuming they weren't drinking then someone was drinking a great deal. Is this about right? Victuallers (talk) 16:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lol! I will check to see if I inadvertently inserted a typo that created this fantastic statistic. I like your style. Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 18:47, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How many monks are there in America?

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 18:48, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is getting crazy now, but there were some serious producers of whiskey in the Pittsburgh area, some of whom were left-overs from the Whiskey Rebellion. See Henry Overholt. He was the great-grandfather of the wife of Henry Clay Frick Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 16:04, 29 November 2016 (UTC) p.s. I am getting my hands on some archival materials that actually mention 'babies' in their statistics...probably fabricated to increase drama, but still interesting.[reply]

what is a temperance song

I had the impression a temperance song was a song in support of temperance, not just about temperance. I'll see you in C-U-B-A 1920 in particular does not seem to be in support of temperance, but rather celebrating the ability to avoid it. DGG ( talk ) 03:51, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, similarly "Wha-Cha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz?" is about the fear that if they can ban alcohol they might ban jazz, too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:5B20:15A0:BA72:C188:F043:8E99 (talk) 06:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]