Let’s Make Merry [with Archie Rand at cocktail time]

Something’s cooking in the bathtub
Made for England’s Basil Rathbub
Let us tipple Bols or Boodles
With vermouth or lukshen noodles
And with Plymouth or with Bombay
Cherries jubilee a flambé
Let us throw in rind of citrus
To that v-shaped stemmed shell vitreous
Spurn to flight all schmendriks
And then relax with Hendrick’s
St. Thomas, Sonny Rollins
With a Beefeater Tom Collins
With olives and some Noilly Prat
On Rubschlagers, an oily sprat
For the timid a Negroni
With which you can have plain baloney
Be it Seagram’s, be it Gordon’s
Tank’ray Ten (with cordons)
Be it Brooklyn, be it London
‘Twill do to get us undone
 
— Archie Rand