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Link your arm in mine, my lad --
You and I together, / You and I and all the rest / Shall face the winter weather.
Chorus / Some to good, and some to harm, / Some to cheer the others, / All the world goes arm in arm, / And all the men are brothers.
Fortune kicks us here and there, / Small our role in life, lad.
Better paltry peace, howe'er, / Than hero-laurelled strife, lad.
While there's liquor to be had, / Deeply drain the bickers.
Ocean plays at marbles, lad, / With men of war for knickers.
Who will ever hear of me?
Who will hear of you, lad?
Devil take posterity / And present people too, lad!
I have work enough to do, / Strength enough to do it --
I have work and so have you, / So put your shoulder to it!
Some do half that I can do, / Some can do the double, / Some must rule for me and you, / To save ourselves the trouble!
Who would envy yonder man / Decorated thus, lad?
We are workingmen for him, / And he's an earl for us, lad!