Wilmot MacDonald - If You'll Only Let Whiskey Alone



If You'll Only Let Whiskey/Liquor Alone Songs 1-15 on Side 1 of RR Tape Lord Beaverbrook Collection of New Brunswick Folksongs (recorded at the Legion Hall Newcastle, N.B. Nov.20th, and 25th 1947)

 This song is sung a cappella. Ives note on the song (in his book below) tells us that this was one of Wilmot's favourite songs. The song is a plea from a man s wife for him to stop drinking. Wilmot ends the songs with a long whoopee .

1947  The song appears in Edward Ives ed. Folksongs of New Brunswick Goose Lane Editions Ltd., Fredericton pg. 91 as If You ll Only Let Liquor Alone. 124-09 [[Category:M]]