Kind Friends and Companions

Source: The Stone Fiddle by Paddy Tunney

Location: New Edition, page 185

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Kind friends and companions together combine.

Come fill up your glasses in chorus with mine.

We will drink and be merry, good drinks and refrain,

That we may or might never all meet here again.

Chorus:

Here’s a health to the company, and one to my lass.

We will drink and be merry all out of one glass,

We will drink and be merry, good drinks and refrain,

That we may or might never all meet here again.

Here’s a health to the wee lass that i love so well.

For style or for beauty there’s none can excel.

She smiles on my countenance as she sits on my knee.

There is none in this wide would so happy as me.

Chorus

Our ship lies at anchor and ready to dock.

I wish her safe landing without shake or shock,

And when we are sailing to the land of the free,

I will always remember your kindness to me.

Chorus

I have read that old proverb, I have read it so true.

My love she’s as fair as the bright moring dew,

I have read that old proverb, I suppose so have you,

So good friends and companions I bid you adieu.

Chorus

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