History: Prohibition Of Alcoholic Beverages, Los Angeles, California, United States

At the same time, songs emerged decrying the act. After Edward, Prince of Wales, returned to the United Kingdom following his tour of Canada in 1919, he recounted to his father, King George V, a ditty he had heard at a border town:
“Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry,
Went across the border to get a drink of rye.