Cornelius' Prohibition Songs

#	Text	Tune
d1	Are you building on the sand
d2	Are you sailing on the good ship prohibition
d3	At miodnight a mother sat weeping alone
d4	By the cradle slowly rocking
d5	Come with hearts and voices now and sing
d6	For my dear boy, I am praying
d7	For our sakes, we plead today
d8	Hark, the battle cry is sounding
d9	Have you seen the poor, weak drunkard
d10	Hurrah, hurrah, we'll up tip the bar
d11	I saw a mighty army
d12	If your soul has been redeemed
d13	It's been tried by Maine and Kansas
d14	My countrymen, how sad to think
d15	On one side or on the other
d16	Somebody voted to ruin my boy
d17	Somebody's boy is going down
d18	Than hated slavery's reign of wrong
d19	The salooncrat is in the land
d20	There comes the sound of wailing in the night
d21	There is strife throughout our nation
d22	There is whiskey in that glass
d23	There's one thing that we all know
d24	Think when you see the poor drunkard
d25	This is our prohibition cry
d26	Though hard the battle to be fought
d27	Thousands of drunkards are going each year
d28	We are temperance soldiers
d29	We're a prohibition band
d30	We're in a fight we know is right
d31	Where are the days when demijohns were free
d32	Ye faithful friends of our noble cause

[This hymnal is not yet complete - may be missing texts or tunes]

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