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Thread #125173   Message #2769579
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-Nov-09 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: Chords: Come Fill Up Your Glasses (Peggy Seeger)
Subject: Version: Come Fill Up Your Glasses (Peggy Seeger)
I'd say this is a more recent, politically-corrected, and greatly condensed version of the song that appears in the Digital Tradition.

COME FILL UP YOUR GLASSES
(Peggy Seeger)

Come fill up your glasses with whiskey and beer,
And drink a full glass to a happy New Year
To our sisters and brothers,and may they live long,
So lift up your glasses and join in this song

CHORUS
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
To peace on this earth and good will among men

Long life to the miners who work underground,
And also the farmers the whole world around,
To the builders and nurses and bold engineers,
May your wages keep rising, friends, over the years.

A toast to the casual laboring hands,
Who live where their work is, who work where they can;
To the writers and artists, whose work is our wealth,
And to those on the dole, a good job and good health.

To our sisters who spend their whole workday at home,
To the parents who're raising their children alone;
Also to our comrades, our jobs never cease,
As we spend our lives fighting for freedom and peace.

Let the men drink a health to their partners and friends,
And the likewise, to their partners and friends,
May your pleasures be many, your troubles be few,
May you treasure the day you made one out of two.

Let's drink to the children and let us prepare,
A world where they'll live free from sorrow and care,
A world where good will among men is the law,
A world with a future, a world without war.

Note: Seeger says she changes this song almost every time she sings it.

Source: The Peggy Seeger Songbook
tune: variant on Pretty Polly Perkin of Paddington Green
Copyright Stormking Music, 1963 (written in 1960)
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