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Lyrics for Heres To The Last To Die by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Heres To The Last To Die | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 339 | | | | Lyrics: | Here's to the Last to Die
words: Captain Darling
music: Trad. (RG Note. Variant on
tune used for The Horn of the
Hunter)
source: Scottish Students Song Book c.
1892
We meet 'neath the sounding rafters,
And the walls around are bare;
As
they echo to our laughter
'Twould not seem that the dead were there.
So stand to your
glasses steady,
'Tis all we have left to prize.
Quaff a cup to the dead
already
And one to the next who dies.
Who dreads to the dead
returning,
Who shrinks from that sable shore
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of
the souls will be no more?
cho:
Cut off from the land that bore us,
Betrayed by
the land we find,
When the brightest have gone before us
And the dullest remain
behind.
cho:
There's a mist on the glass congealing,
'Tis the hurricane's fiery
breath
And 'tis thus that the warmth of feeling
Turns ice in the grasp of death.
cho:
There is many a head that is aching,
There is many a cheek that is sunk,
There
is many a heart that is breaking,
Must burn with the drinks we have drunk.
cho:
There is not time for repentance,
'Tis folly to yield to despair,
When a shudder
may finish a sentence,
Or death put an end to a prayer.
cho:
Time was when we
frowned on others,
We thought we were wiser then;
But now let us all be brothers,
For
we never may meet again.
cho:
But a truce to this mournful story,
For death is a
distant friend.
So here's to a life of glory,
And a laurel to crown each end.
cho:
@death @war @soldier
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