Why spend your leisure bereft of
Pleasure
A massing treasure why scrape and save?

Why look so canny at ev'ry penny?
You'll take no money within the grave
Landlords and gentry with all their plenty

Must still go empty where e'er they're bound
So to my thinking we'd best be drinking
Our glasses clinking and round and round


King Solomon's glory, so famed in story
Was far outshone by the lillies guise

But hard winds harden both field and garden
Pleading for pardon, the lily dies
Life's but a bauble of toil and trouble


The feathered arrow, once shot ne'er found
So, lads and lasses, because life passes

Come fill your glasses for another round

The huckster greedy, he blinds the needy

Their strifes unheeding, shouts "Money down!"
This special vices, his fancy prices
For a florin value he'll charge a crown

With hump for tramel, the scripture's chamel
Missed the needle's eye and so came to ground
Why pine for riches, while still you've stitches

To hold your britches up? Another round