THE nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale, <br />Puts down all drink when it is stale! <br />The toast, the nutmeg, and the ginger <br />Will make a sighing man a singer. <br />Ale gives a buffet in the head, <br />But ginger under-props the brain; <br />When ale would strike a strong man dead <br />Then nutmeg tempers it again. <br />The nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale, <br />Puts down all drink when it is stale!<br /><br />John Marston<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-nut-brown-ale/
