AE7A
Come fill up your glasses with whiskey and beer
EB7E7
And drink a full glass to a happy new year
ADE7
To our sisters and brothers, and may they live long,
ADA
So lift up your glasses and join in this song
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
Long life to the miners the whole world around,
EB7E7
Who spend their days in a hole underground,
ADE7
Whose road is a tunnel, whose day is the night,
ADA
Out of danger and darkness they bring light
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
Our thanks too the fishermen and safe may they toil,
EB7E7
And also to the farmer who turns up the soil;
ADE7
To the ploughmen and shepherds and all men of worth,
ADA
Whose joy is to harvest the fruits of the earth.
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
Here's to the drivers and firemen and the rest of the team,
EB7E7
Who keep the stock rolling by diesel and steam,
ADE7
To the cleaners and shunters who work night and day,
ADA
And the track laying gangs on the permanent way.
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
A toast to the casual laboring man,
EB7E7
Who lives where his work is, who works where he can,
ADE7
To the builders and spidermen and bold engineers,
ADA
May your wages keep rising, lads, over the years.
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
To the writers and artists, then, let's drink a health,
EB7E7
To people whose hopes, and whose dreams are our wealth,
ADE7
Whose tools are but canvas or paper and pen,
ADA
Whose harvest is the future and the progress of men,
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
Let the men drink a health to their sweethearts and wives,
EB7E7
And the ladies, being willing, will greet them likewise,
ADE7
May your pleasures be many, your troubles bu few,
ADA
May you treasure the day you made one out of two.
E7ADE7
So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
ADE7A
To peace on earth and good will among men
AE7A
Let's drink to our children and let us prepare,
EB7E7
A world where they'll live free from sorrow and care,
ADE7
A world where goodwill among men is the law,
ADA
A world without fallout, a world without war.