[Ads-l] Antedating (?) BYOB and BYOL and BYOS

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a 1922 song that is closer to the song Mark mentioned, but
still distinct, I think:

Date: December 13, 1922
Newspaper: The Evening Sun
Newspaper Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Article: The Cat's Pajamas
Quote Page 26, Column 1
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin excerpt]
Old Songs We've Most Forgot
Dear Ed.--Certainly your collection of old songs would not be complete
without this one:

Show me the way to go home, babe,
Show me the way to go home.
I took a little drink about an hour ago,
And straight to my head it did go,
Oh, show me the way to go home, babe;
Show me the way to go home.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:08 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That song is certainly different! But as you observe, the reference, along
> with other entries in the Mudcat thread, proves that "Show me the way to go
> home" was already well associated with drinking (to intoxication).
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 11:59 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> > Mark Mandel wrote:
> > > As additional evidence, I take the expression "show them the way to go
> > > home" as an allusion to the song that begins:
> > > >>>>>
> > > Show me the way to go home.
> > > I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
> > > I had a little drink about an hour ago
> > > And it went right to my head.
> >
> > Thanks for your response, Mark. The 1902 citation below indicates that
> > the phrase “Show me the way to go home” does occur as a refrain in a
> > drinking song. Although the song below seems to differ from the one
> > you suggested.
> >
> > The famous temperance campaigner Carrie Nation visited the Yale
> > campus, but she was heckled by students who interrupted her discourse
> > by singing drinking songs.
> >
> > Date: October 1, 1902
> > Newspaper: The Evening Standard
> > Newspaper Location: Leavenworth, Kansas
> > Article: Mrs. Nation Jeered by Yale Students
> > Quote Page 1, Column 1
> > Database: Newspapers.com
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > "I'm amazed at the sentiment of such
> > songs; really in all my life"----
> >
> > Give us a drink, bartender,
> > For we love it, as you know----
> > And surely you will oblige us.
> > With a little drop or so.
> >
> > "The saloon," shouted Mrs. Nation,
> > "has been after those singers. It'll get
> > 'em if they don't answer out."
> >
> > But the answer was:
> > Show me the way to go home, Carrie,
> > Show me the way to go home,
> > For I've been drunk for the last six months,
> > Show me the way to go home.
> >
> > "You're on the road to ----," screamed Mrs. Nation.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> >
> > > There's plenty of discussion of this song on the Mudcat Café website
> > > (dedicated to discussion of filk and popular music). See among others
> > > https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9395#60669
> > >
> > > In that thread, the comment at
> > > https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9395#342162
> > > provides some dates, though without citations:
> >
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