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dennis d'asaro - fill your glasses lyrics

[verse]
oh when i was a lad of twelve
and thought myself a swell
i signed aboard as cabin boy
on the good ship fare thee well
on our final night ashore
i could not sleep a wink
so i crept into the mermaid’s tail
to watch the sailors drink
there sat old forecastle john
with the white hair round his head
he called now gather round me boys
and here is what he said
[chorus]
he said fill your glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
[verse]
he said you know i served as mate
‘board the whaler mary elle
with captain canе we sailed her
thе long way round to h+ll
six years in the islands boys
three years round the pole
then we ghosted home with half a crew
forty barrels in the hold
and i never saw a sight so strange
as old nantucket’s shore
so foreign seemed the hills of home
that i could stay no more
and on the night we landed
i spent my nine years pay
and four days from that morning boys
i shipped from here away
[chorus]
so fill you glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
[verse]
ah these harbor towns are vicious
but the harbor gals are fine
they cover you with kisses
and they smother you with wine
they always call you honey
when they know you’re on the sail
and they’ve always got you money boys
by the time you land in jail
[chorus]
so fill your glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
[verse]
oh we should not grow thirsty
if it were not for the ale
and we should not go a roving lads
if it were not for the sail
if it were not for lonely jack
there should be no women then
and if not for the foreign shore
we should not sail home again
if we did not grow old boys
then we should have no youth
and if young men told no lies
we should not know the truth
and truth, if not for winters blast
we should not feel warm
and if not for the warm west wind
we should not know the storm
if it were not to brave the storm
no ship would sail the sea
and if it were not for ship and sail
god would not have made me
[chorus]
so fill your glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
[verse]
oh then old john, he drew me forth
bought me my first ale
was not that once but many times
again i heard his tale
’tis fifty years this morning
since the fare thee well set sail
the harbor pilot brought us out
intent upon the whale
and i in turn have spent my life
bunked before the mast
so if you sail on this morning’s tide
to you i raise my glass
[chorus]
oh fill your glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
[outro]
oh fill your glasses high boys
drink up all your pay
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away
tomorrow night the harbor lights
may be one hundred miles away

- dennis dasaro lyrics

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