This is an interesting drinking song thge lyrics of which I picked up at the Southern California Renaissance Faire many years ago. The song, so far as I know, begins with the "pint pot" verse, and moves on from there... (meaning I've never heard anyone start with "Here's good luck to the brown bowl...".
So how is this a drinking song? Each person takes a verse, anyone screwing up a verse (or more likely the chorus) has to drink.
This song is something like The Twelve Days of Christmas in that each verse build upon the previous one. I'll type out the first two, then the final verse. You can interpolate, I hope.
Someday, I'll figure out how to draw a musical staff with html, then I'll add the music as well.
(Reproduced here especially for Debbie Lidl)
Here's good luck to the pint pot,
Good luck to the Barley Mow,
Jolly good luck to the pint pot,
Good luck to the Barley Mow, Hey!
Here's to the pint-pot, half-a-pint, gill-pot, half-a-gill
quarter-gill, nipperkin, and the brown bowl.
Here's good luck, good luck to the Barley Mow!.
Here's good luck to the quart pot,
Good luck to the Barley Mow,
Jolly good luck to the quart pot,
Good luck to the Barley Mow, Hey!
Here's to the quart-pot, pint-pot, half-a-pint, gill-pot, half-a-gill
quarter-gill, nipperkin, and the brown bowl.
Here's good luck, good luck to the Barley Mow!.
And so on, until...
Here's to the Comp'ny, the slavey, the drayer, the brewer, the daughter,
landlady, landlord, barrel, half-barrel, gallon, half-gallon, quart-pot,
pint-pot, half-a-pint, gill-pot, half-a-gill quarter-gill, nipperkin,
and the brown bowl.
Here's good luck, good luck to the Barley Mow!.
The only attribution I can find on this is that the person who transcribed it for me learned it from Amie Hill. Thanks Amie!