Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme
Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine
Come lift up your voices, from grief we'll refrain
For we know not when we will all meet again.

Chorus:
Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
We'll drink and be merry all out of one glass
We'll drink and be merry from grief we'll refrain
For we know not when we will all meet again.

Here's a health to the dear lass that I love so well
Her face and her beauty there's none can excel
There's a smile on her countenance as she sits on my knee
There is none in this whole world as happy as me.

Chorus

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

Chorus