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T:How Stands the Glass?
S:Digital Tradition, howstand
H:According to Dolph ("Sound Off!"), appeared in a London broadside in 1710;
H:was part of ballad opera The Patron, 1729. Sometimes called "Wolfe's Song"
B:From Contentment, Jim Douglas
B:Collected from notebook of Thos. Fanning, 1780
Z:dt:howstand
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:How stands the glass around
W:for shame you take no care, my boys,
W:How stands the glass around
W:Let wine and mirth abound.
W:the trumpet sound
W:the colors they do fly my boys
W:To fight kill and wound
W:as you would be found,
W:Contented with hard fare, my boys
W:on the Cold ground
W:
W:O why, soldiers why
W:O why should we be melancholy boys
W:O why soldiers why
W:Whose Business is to die
W:What sithing [sighing] fye
W:Let's not fear, Drink and be Jolly, boys
W:you and I through wet Cold or Dry
W:Our orders are to follow boys
W:we scorn to flye
W:
W:It is in vain
W:I mean not to upbraid you boys
W:It is in vain
W:for a soldier to Complain
W:for the next Campaign
W:we go to him that made us boys
W:free from all pain
W:But if you should Remain
W:A Bottle and kind Landlady
W:will Cure all again
K:Bb
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