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Thread #71227   Message #2769597
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-Nov-09 - 11:45 PM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections - recorded msgs
Subject: DT Corr: Come Fill Up Your Glasses (Peggy Seeger)
The lyrics in the Digital Tradition are almost what's in the Ewan MacColl Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications, 1963, page 90-91), but there are a few differences that cause problems with the meter. Here's a corrected transcription. Corrections are underlined.

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 the whole world around,
Who spend all their days in a hole underground,
Whose road is a tunnel, whose day is the night,
Out of danger and darkness they bring power and light

Our thanks to the fishermen and safe may they toil,
And also to the farmer who turns up the soil;
To the ploughmen and shepherds and all men of worth,
Whose joy is to harvest the fruits of the earth.

Here's to drivers and firemen and the rest of the team,
Who keep the stock rolling by diesel and steam,
To the cleaners and shunters who work night and day,
And the track-laying gangs on the permanent way.

A toast to the casual labouring man,
Who lives where his work is, who works where he can,
To the builders and spidermen and bold engineers,
May your wages keep rising, lads, over the years.

To the writers and artists, then, let's drink a health,
To the people whose hopes and whose dreams are our wealth,
Whose tools are but canvas or paper and pen,
Whose harvest is the future and the progress of men.

Let the men drink a health to their sweethearts and wives,
And the ladies, being willing, will greet them likewise,
May your pleasures be many, your troubles be few,
May you treasure the day you made one out of two.

Let's drink to our children and let us prepare,
A world where they'll live free from sorrow and care,
A world where goodwill among men is the law,
A world without fallout, a world without war!

Source: Ewan MacColl Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications, 1963, page 90-91)
tune: variant on Pretty Polly Perkin of Paddington Green
Copyright 1960, Sing Out, Inc.
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