The Lips That Touch Liquor

from Graveyard Dirt by Synth Widow

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lyrics

The homes that were happy are ruined and gone.
The hearts that were merry are wretched and lone
And lives full of promise of good things to come
Are ruined and wreck’d by the Demon of Rum

The Demon of Rum is about in the land,
His victims are falling on every hand
O maidens with fathers and brothers and beaux;
Whose lives you would rescue from infinite woes
Let war be your watchword from shore unto shore
Till rum and his legions shall ruin no more
And write on your banners, in letters that shine,
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!

Let war be your watchword from shore unto shore
Till rum and his legions shall ruin no more
And write on your banners, in letters that shine,
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!
And write on your banners, in letters that shine,
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!

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from Graveyard Dirt, released February 5, 2022
Temperance poem by Sam Booth, 1874
Arrangement by Synth Widow

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