1927 Barflies and Cocktails

Here's to you, my dear, and co the dear who's not here, my dear ; but if the dear who' s not here. my dear, were here, my dear, I'd not be drinking co you, dear, that' s clear.

Here's to a long life and a merry one, ·A quick death and a happy one,

A good girl and a prerry one, A cold boccie ~nd another one.

Here' s to the lawyer, a learned gentleman, who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it hi11Jself.

Wine is good.

Love is better, False morals spin a spider's fetter. So fill up the bowl, Be a jolly old soul, And you'll be loved by your girl when you gee her.

, Oh, fill the wine-cup high, The sparkling .liquor pour, For we will ca re and grief defy,

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They ne'er shall plague us more.

Say, why did Time bis glass sublime Fill up with sand unsightly Wl;ien wine, be knew, runs brisker thr"'ougb, And sparkles far more brigbrly ? Laugh at all . things, Great and small things, Sick or well, on sea or shore, While we are quaffing Lee's have some laughing. Who the devil cares for more ?

While we live lec'. s live in clover, For when we' re dead we' re dead all over.

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Let her roll.

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