GC
Oh! Comrades, fill no glass for me
GAD
To drown my soul in liquid flame
GC
For if I drank, the toast would be
GDG
To blighted forture, health and fame.
CG
Yet, though I long to quell the strife
AD7
That passion holds against my life,
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.
[Verse 2]
GC
I know a breast that once was light
GAD
Whose patient sufferings need my care
GC
I know a hearth that once was bright,
GDG
But drooping hopes have nestled there.
CG
Then while the tear drops nightly steal
AD7
From wounded hearts that I should heal
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.
[Verse 3]
GC
When I was young I felt the tide
GAD
Of aspirations undefiled,
GC
But manhood's years have wronged the pride
GDG
My parents centered in their child.
CG
Then, by a mother's sacred tear,
AD7
By all that memory should revere,
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.
GC
Still, boon companions may ye be,
GDG
But comrades, fill no glass for me.