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May they and their commanders,
live hapy many years,
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
brave Britiſh Grenadiers,
O the DAYS when I was YOUNG.
OThe days when I was young.
when I laugh'd at fortune's ſpight
Talk'd of love the whole day long,
and with nectar crown'd the night;
Then it was Old Father Care,
little reck'd I of thy crown.
Half thy malice youth could bear,
and at night a bumper drown.
CHORUS
O the days when I was young,
when I laugh'd at Fortune's ſpight,
Talk'd of love the whole day long,
and with nectar crown'd the night.
Truth they ſay lies in a well;
why; I vow I ne'er cou'd ſee;
Let the water-drinkers tell,
there it always lay for me:
For when ſparkling wine went round,
never ſaw I falſehood's maſk;
But ſtill honest truth I found,
in the bottom of the flaſk,
O the days when I was young! &c.
