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 And he that will this health deny,
 Down among the dead men let him lie.  
 And he that will this health deny,
 Down among the dead men let him lie. 
 A health to the nut-brown lass,
 With the hazel eyes: let it pass.
  . . . .
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 A health to the nut-brown lass,
 With the hazel eyes: let it pass.
  . . . .
   As much to the lively grey
    'Tis as good i' th' night as day:
     . . . .
      She's a savour to the glass,
       And excuse to make it pass. 
 Weren't the last drop in the well,
 As I gasp'd upon the brink,
  Ere my fainting spirit read more 
 Weren't the last drop in the well,
 As I gasp'd upon the brink,
  Ere my fainting spirit fell,
   'Tis to thee that I would drink. 
 Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
 'Tis all we have left to prize.
  A cup to the read more 
 Ho! stand to your glasses steady!
 'Tis all we have left to prize.
  A cup to the dead already,--
   Hurrah for the next that dies. 
 Here's to the red of it,
 There's not a thread of it,
  No, not a shred of read more 
 Here's to the red of it,
 There's not a thread of it,
  No, not a shred of it,
   In all the spread of it,
    From foot to head,
     Not heroes bled for it,
      Faced steel and lead for it,
       Precious blood shed for it,
        Bathing in red. 
Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
 A glass is good, and a lass is good,
 And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;
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 A glass is good, and a lass is good,
 And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;
  The world is good and the people are good,
   And we're all good fellows together. 
May you live all the days of your life.
May you live all the days of your life.
 I come from good old Boston,
 The home of the bean and the cod,
  Where Cabots speak read more 
 I come from good old Boston,
 The home of the bean and the cod,
  Where Cabots speak only to Lowells,
   And the Lowells speak only to God.