America Never Took Water And America Never Will
By J. Keirn Brennan, Gus Edwards, and Paul Cunningham
Published 1919

[verse 1]
Slowly but surely a transport of joy,
Docked at her pier up the bay.
"Tell us the news old pal, we've been away!"
That's what each boy seemed to say;
When someone said, the country's going dry,
They listened then they all began to cry.

[refrain 1]
Why America never took water,
So why should she take it now.
England gave us Ale and Porter,
To drink their wines the French have taught us how.
Of water in the trenches,
We surely had our fill,
So we can't understand why you shold hand it to us still,
For America never took water,
And America never will!

[verse 2]
One fighting Yank said, "If such is the case,
This is no place then for me!
I'm going back again, back o'er the sea,
Where I can live happily."
His comrades said, "before you start to go,
It seems to us it's time you ought to know.

[refrain 2]
That America never took water,
So why should she take it now.
England gave us Ale and Porter,
To drink their wines the French have taught us how.
Old Jack and Jill took water,
That's why they took a spill,
The same thing's apt to happen to this famous drinking bill,
For America never took water,
And America never will!