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Drink Boys, Drink

Our sheep-shear is over and summer is past

Here's a health to our mistress all in a full glass

For she is a good woman and provides us with cheer

Here's a health to our mistress, so drink up your beer.

Here's an health unto the master, he's the founder of the feast

We hope to God with all our hearts that his soul in heaven do rest

Here's hoping that he prospers, whatever he takes in hand

For we are all his servants and we are at his command.

Cho: So drink boys, drink, and see that you do not spill

If you do you shall drink two, for that is our master's will.

And now we've drunk to the master's health, and why shouldn't the

Missus go free

Why shouldn't she go up to heaven, up to heaven as well as he

For she is a good provider, abroad as well as at home

So take your cup and sup it up, for 'tis our harvest-home.

Joseph Farquharson

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Folk Music Index Shepherds Songbook SHEEP SHEARING Sheep Jewelry	HOME \| home Ca' the Ewes to The Knowes \| Queen Among The Heather \| The Broom of Cowdenknowes \| Bonny May \| Searching for Lambs \| Heather Down the Moor \| The Shepherd's Wife \| Tarry Wool \| Stormy Winds \| Shepherd of the Downs \| The Sheep-Shearing Song \| The Sheep Shearing \| Rosebud in June \| Lincolnshire Shepherd \| Sheep Shearin \| Drink Boys, Drink \| Darby Ram \| Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn \| Master of the Sheepfold \| The Sheep Under the Snow \| The Weary Pund O' Tow \| Sheep Crook and Black Dog \| The Shearing's Nae For You \| Band of Shearers \| Twanky Dillo \| The Shepherd Lad O' Rhynie \| Laird o' Drum \| Blind Shepherd \| Canny Shepherd Laddie \| Road to the Isles \| Tip O' Derwent
	Drink Boys, Drink Our sheep-shear is over and summer is past Here's a health to our mistress all in a full glass For she is a good woman and provides us with cheer Here's a health to our mistress, so drink up your beer. Here's an health unto the master, he's the founder of the feast We hope to God with all our hearts that his soul in heaven do rest Here's hoping that he prospers, whatever he takes in hand For we are all his servants and we are at his command. Cho: So drink boys, drink, and see that you do not spill If you do you shall drink two, for that is our master's will. And now we've drunk to the master's health, and why shouldn't the Missus go free Why shouldn't she go up to heaven, up to heaven as well as he For she is a good provider, abroad as well as at home So take your cup and sup it up, for 'tis our harvest-home. Joseph Farquharson NEXT SONG