The Flying Inn

A novel by G K Chesterton set in a puritan future where pubs have been banned.  A group of odd characters take a barrel around the country, setting up a pub where they stop, and singing songs along the way. 

The [text] is available as well as informative lecture from American Chesterton Society.   It includes the entertaining poems, or song, The Saracen's Head and The Song Against Songs.