A Drinking Song (Julius Benedict)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-02-26). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 125 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: A Drinking Song
Composer: Julius Benedict
Lyricist: Bryan Procter
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB, with divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book (2nd Series), Vol. 1, no. 41
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Drink, drink, drink! and fill the night with mirth,
Drink, drink, drink! Let us have a mighty measure;
Drink, and fill the night with mirth,
Till we quite forget the earth, and soar
In the world, the world of pleasure.
Drink, and let a health go round,
'Tis the drinker's noble duty,
To the eyes that shine and wound,
To the mouths that bud in beauty.
Drink, drink, fill the night with mirth.
2 Fill, fill, Fill! Fill the deep-mouthed glasses high!
Fill, fill, fill! Let them with the champagne tremble.
Like the loose wrack in the sky,
When the four wild winds assemble.
Here's to all the love on earth;
Love, the young man's, old man's treasure.
Drink, and fill your throats with mirth.
Drink, and drown the world in pleasure,
Drink, drink, fill the night with mirth.