Carols of Hope ‎#192

192. Danger in Drink

1. Write it on the liquor store,
Write it on the prison door,
Write it on the gin shop fine,
Write, aye, write this truthful line,

Chorus:
"Where there's drink there's danger,"
"Where there's drink there's danger;"
Write it plain, o'er the slain,
"Where there's drink there's danger."

2. Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the schoolboy's slate,
Write it on the copybook,
That the young may at it look, [Chorus]

3. Write it on the churchyard mound
Where the drink slain dead are found,
Write it on the gallows high,
Write it for all passers-by, [Chorus]

4. Write it on our ships that sail,
Borne along by steam and gale,
Write it in large letters plain,
O'er our land and past the main. [Chorus]

5. Write it on the Christian dome,
Sixty thousand drunkards roam,
Year by year from God and right,
Proving with resistless might, [Chorus]

Text Information

• First Line: Write it on the liquor store
• Title: Danger in Drink
• Author: John C. Newson
• Refrain First Line: "Where there's drink there's danger"
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1906

Tune Information

• Name: [Write it on the liquor store]
• Composer: C. M. Seamans
• Key: D Major