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Song.
[Fill up your bumpers, lads, brimmers all round!]
Fill up your bumpers, lads, brimmers all round!
This world's a queer world, you may think;
And, faith, so it is, as we've most of us found,
And that's why I wish you to drink.
D'ye wait for a toast?—then I'll give you “the King!”
And, while we've such cause to caress him,
With hearts just as full as our goblets, we'll sing,
Here's “William the Fourth, God bless him!”
God bless him!
Here's “William the Fourth, God bless him!”
This world's a queer world, you may think;
And, faith, so it is, as we've most of us found,
And that's why I wish you to drink.
D'ye wait for a toast?—then I'll give you “the King!”
And, while we've such cause to caress him,
With hearts just as full as our goblets, we'll sing,
Here's “William the Fourth, God bless him!”
God bless him!
Here's “William the Fourth, God bless him!”
Again, my lads, fill to the health of a king,
Who roughed it right bravely when young;
And, when but small profit her service could bring,
To the pure cause of Liberty clung!
'Tis the king, who's now called by his nation—but hold!—
I see by your eyes that you guess him—
Then drink to a name with the proudest enrolled—
Here's “Philip of France, God bless him!”
God bless him!
Here's “Philip of France, God bless him!”
Who roughed it right bravely when young;
And, when but small profit her service could bring,
To the pure cause of Liberty clung!
'Tis the king, who's now called by his nation—but hold!—
I see by your eyes that you guess him—
Then drink to a name with the proudest enrolled—
Here's “Philip of France, God bless him!”
God bless him!
Here's “Philip of France, God bless him!”
Oh, proud was the day, when the spirit of France
In the might of its energy rose;
And, teaching a new sort of national dance,
Astonished old tyranny's toes!
And such be the lesson by nations still taught,
When Despots shall dare to oppress 'em.
Then fill up once more, lads, and drink as ye ought,
“The People of France, God bless 'em!”
God bless 'em!
“The People of France, God bless 'em!”
In the might of its energy rose;
And, teaching a new sort of national dance,
Astonished old tyranny's toes!
And such be the lesson by nations still taught,
When Despots shall dare to oppress 'em.
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“The People of France, God bless 'em!”
God bless 'em!
“The People of France, God bless 'em!”
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