Sheet Music Collection Categories

Alcohol and Prohibition

College and other drinking songs, temperance movement songs, prohibition songs, beer ads (the Miller theme), and other well-known songs such as Auld Lang Syne, Kisses sweeter than sine, and Show me the way to go home. This section of the Sheet Music Collection complements the Alcohol and Temperance Collections.

Representative examples of songs include: Father's a drunkard and mother is dead (1858); The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine (1874), the temperance version of I love the USA (1915), and Oh gee - Poor me never-no-more (1918)

Some of the sheet music in the public domain has been digitized and may be viewed on the Alcohol, Prohibition, and Temperance Collection of the Library's Center for Digital Initiatives.

Number of Boxes: 4
Number of Items: 240 approximately
Filed by: title
Date Range: 1830s through 1970s, the bulk dating from the 1870s through 1950s.
Contact: hay@brown.edu

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