This song comes from the Temperance Song Book of the Massachusetts Temperance Union, and it is set to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne." At this time, most reform movements and societies had their own songbooks in which they took familiar tunes such as "Auld Lang Syne" and "Yankee Doodle", and gave them new words to reflect the movements' vision. Song was very important in this time period. People sang everywhere: church, social meetings, and at their homes. It was a way to bring people together for common entertainment and in a common purpose.
When we sit down to dine?
Pour’d out by hands divine?
Pour’d out by hands divine.
Doth find her rosiest hue.
And grow the strongest men.
To drink the drops that fell.
The two lips of a belle?
Then why not you and I?
The girls like tulips fair.