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Thread #36084 Message #1427458
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Mar-05 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Revelry of the Dying, circa 1800
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Revelry of the Dying, circa 1800
Known in the Canadian Services as "Stand to Your Glasses Steady." The chorus is similar to that of several versions:
So stand to your glasses, steady.
The world is a world full of lies.
Here's a toast to the dead already,
And hurrah for the next man who dies.
One verse is in the DT, appended to one of the versions.
Anthony Hopkins, 1979, Songs From The Front & Rear, p. 120, Hurtig pub.