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How Stands the Glass Around (
Why, Soldiers, Why?)
How stands the glass aroundfor shame you take no care, my boys,
How stands the glass around
Let wine and mirth abound. the trumpet sound the colors they do fly my boys To fight kill and wound as you would be found, Contented with hard fare, my boys on the Cold ground
O why, soldiers why
O why should we be melancholy boys
O why soldiers why
Whose Business is to die What sithing [sighing] fye Let
[s] not fear, Drink and be Jolly, boys you and I through wet Cold or Dry Our orders are to follow boys we scorn to flye
It is in vain
I mean not to upbraid you boys
It is in vainfor a soldier to Complain for the next Campaign we go to him that made us boys free from all pain But if you should Remain A Bottle and kind Landlady will Cure all againfrom Contentment, Jim Douglas
Collected from notebook of Thos. Fanning, 1780
According to Dolph ("
Sound Off!"), appeared in a London broadsidein 1710; was part of ballad opera The Patron, 1729. Sometimescalled "
Wolfe's Song"filename
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