Some Die of Drinking Whiskey

	While Hubert Canfield gave no indication of the melody to which this cautionary verse is sung, the tune would appear to be "The British Grenadiers."  Whatever, the song clearly had currency ca. World War I.

Some die of drinking whiskey.
Some die of drinking beer.
Some die of the diabetes,
And some of the diarrhea.
[But of all the dread diseases
There is none that I so fear,]
As the drip, drip, drip,
And the drop, drop, drop
Of the God damned gonorrhea.

	Canfield had a second version that substituted for the two bracketed lines the following:

But all the whole world over,
There's nothing half so sure,