Ein mehr Bier, Bitte!  --  Featured on an early Peerless roll:

"Down Where the Wurzburger Flows"

Words by Vincent P. Bryan; music by Harry Von Tilzer
(c) 1902 Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

Verse:

  Now pets may sing of the dear Father land
  and the soft flowing dreamy old Rhine;
  Beside the Blue Danube in fancy they stand
  And they rave of its beauties divine.

  But there is a spot where the sun never shines,
  Where mirth and good fellowship reign;
  For deal old Bohemia my lonely heart pines,
  And I long to be there once again;

Refrain:

  Take Me down, down down where the Wurzburger flows, flows flows;
  It will drown, drown, drown all your troubles and cares and woes;
    Just order two Seidels of lager, or three,
    If I don't want to drink it, please force it on me,
  The Rhine may be fine but a cold stein for mine,
  Down where the Wurzburger flows.

Verse II:

  The Rhine by moonlight it's a beautiful sight,
  When the wind whispers low thru' the vines;
  But give me some good old Rathskellar at night
  Where the brilliant electric light shines;

  The poets may think its delightful to hear
  The nightingale piping his lay;
  Give me a piano, a cold stein of beer and a fellow
  who knows how to play;

(Repeat Refrain)

There you go.  Who says America is a cultural wasteland?  Peerless
knew how to pick the most refined songs for their rolls.

Prosit,

S. K. Goodman