Prohibition Blues
Words and Music by Al Sweet
Published 1917

[verse 1]
Mose Brown came a staggerin' home one morn,
Tears in his eyes and lookin' all forlorn,
His wifey met him with such an awful frown,
Said he "My dear, now won't you please sit down
and listen to me while a sad tale I relate,
of de news I hear what got me in dis state,
Last night I went to church and I feel so blue,
What that parson say I will tell to you:

[chorus]
Oh! my Brothers and Sisters, listen to what I say
By nineteen twenty dere'll be no boose sold in the U.S.A.
De whole country am goin' bone dry,
Prohibition am de battle cry,
'Scuse me while I shed a tear,
For good old whiskey,gin and beer.
Goodbye forever, Goodbye forever
Ah got de Prohibition, Prohibition, Prohibition blues.

[verse 2]
I got up and walked right out of dat church,
On the steps then I met old Sam'l Birch,
"Why Moses," he say, "what make you look so blue"
I tell him an' he say
If dat am true, Dat dry times comin'
an' dere goin' to can de booze,
come on to the corner, dere's no time to lose."
So we just started in drinkin' gainst dat day,
When I'd try to stop, then old Sam would say:

[repeat chorus]