Here is another version from the Alfred Williams Collection.

Tim Radford

Song Title: COME, MY LADS, AND LET'S BE JOLLY
Roud No.: 1238
Collected From: Sawyer, David 'Phoebus'
Location: Ogbourne St. Andrew
County: Wiltshire
Collected By: Williams, Alfred
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Source Primary: WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 4 - Wiltshire: Williams, A: MS collection No Wt 438
Source Secondary: Williams, A: Folk songs of the upper Thames, 1923, p 54, 55
Recording:

1. Come, my lads, and let's be jolly,
Drive away all melancholy,
For to grieve it is a folly,
Since we've met together.

CHORUS: Why shouldn't you and I agree?
Always keep good company;
Since we've met let's merry be,
Because it is our holiday.

2. Some delight in quarrelling and fighting,
Evil speaking and back biting,
But no such thing do I delight in,
When we meet to be merry. CHORUS

3. Solomon, both old and hoary,
Tells us quite another story,
Tells us to sing praise and glory,
When we do meet merrily. CHORUS

4. Eating and drinking there is no harm in,
Dancing and smoking is quite charming;
All these things take great delight in,
When you do meet merrily. CHORUS

5. Then let us all with one mind agree,
Resolve to keep good company;
Pray, what harm in this can be,
When we meet to be merry? CHORUS