where they sit around and get a round in while the getting s good they ll make the most until the money s gone they re coming out to celebrate to sing and dance and to escape a crazy world where everything seems wrong drinking to forget and to remember all the glory days the days we stood apart and we stood strong though the beer befuddles sense it can t provide them recompense they settle for another drinking song where the busy man finds recreation the idle man finds business the melancholy man finds sanctuary the stranger may have welcome and still within these self same walls the citizen may find some courtesy from rose and crown to cock and bull all history is written there to folklore myth and legend we belong come masons plumbers carpenters come cricketers and huntsmen all join us in another drinking song well you can keep your long hours culture your lusting for adventure there s life aplenty down the tap n spile forget your occupation down the salutation this tragicomedy will make you smile from quaint barstool philosophy to subtle innuendo it s funny how the tribes all get along curse abstinence and temperance come celebrate insouciance and join us in another drinking song