Fine friends and companions come join me in rhyme
come lift up your voices in chorus with mine
come lift up your voices, all grief to refrain
for we may or might never all meet here again

so here's a health to the company and one to my lass
let's drink and be merry all out of one glass
let's drink and be merry all grief to refrain
for we may or might never all meet here again

here's a health to the wee lass that I love so well
for her style and for her beauty there's none can excel
there's a smile on her countenance as she sits upon my knee
there is no man in this wide world as happy as me

so here's a health to the company and one to my lass
let's drink and be merry all out of one glass
let's drink and be merry all grief to refrain
for we may or might never all meet here again

our ship lies at anchor she's ready to dock
I wish her safe landing without any shock
and if I ever I should meet you by land or by sea
I will always remember your kindness to me

so here's a health to the company and one to my lass
let's drink and be merry all out of one glass
let's drink and be merry all grief to refrain
for we may or might never all meet here again

My footsteps may falter my wit it may fail
My course may be challenged by November gale
Ere fortune shall prove to be friend or be foe
You will always be with me wherever I go

so here's a health to the company and one to my lass
let's drink and be merry all out of one glass
let's drink and be merry all grief to refrain
for we may or might never all meet here again