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smokie – always the last to know lyrics

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heres to the last to die
here’s to the last to die

words: captain darling
music: trad. (rg note. variant on tune used for the h-rn 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 gl-sses 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 sh-r-
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 gl-ss 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
filename[ lastman
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