A Drinking Song (2020 Mix)

Back at the house a bottle is found

And opened in honour of those who have drowned

While we who have not are stricken with guilt

And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt

We're drinking to life, we're drinking to death

We're drinking till none of our livers are left

We're wending our way down to the spirit store

To drink till we just can't drink anymore

Raise your glasses high

Drink the cellar dry

Well, bloody my nose and blacken my eye

If it ain't some young turk in search of a fight

And Chanticleer's chest is sagging with pride

For honour has yet to be satisfied

Well, heaven be thanked we live in an age

When no man need bother except on the stage

With 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'

And definitely not tonight

I can still remember when I was just a kid

I was free to do what I wanted to but I never ever did

So now with years of discretion reached

May we not forget - liberté, égalité, fraternité

For there's life in the old world yet

There'll always be an England

An Ireland and a France

A Liechtenstein and Finland

And we have only one chance

Then this young man with an unhealthy tan

Puts a drink in my hand and says,"I understand

You're in search of a place to continue the chase

Of the heavenly taste, I suggest in that case

That you all come with me to my place by the sea

Where the glasses shall be overflowing with free

Alcoholic delights (and free love if you like)

For what point has this life if you can't realise your dreams"?

Raise your glasses high

And drink this town dry

We'll drink beyond the boundaries of sense

We'll drink till we start to see lovely pink elephants

Inside our heads, inside our beds

Inside the threads of our pyjama legs

So don't shoot till you see the reds of our eyes

And an army of elephants marching behind

From the day I was born till the night I will die

All my lovers will be pink and elephantine