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Give a rouse, then, in the Maytime / For a life that knows no fear! / Turn night-time into daytime / With the sunlight of good cheer! / For it's always fair weather / When good fellows get together, / With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
When the wind comes up from Cuba / And the birds are on the wing, / And our hearts are patting juba / To the banjo of the spring, / Then it's no wonder whether / The boys will get together, / With a stein on the table and a cheer for everything.
For we're all frank-and-twenty / When the spring is in the air; / And we've faith and hope a-plenty, / And we've life and love to spare; / And it's birds of a feather / When we all get together, / With a stein on the table and a heart without a care.
For we know the world is glorious, / And the goal a golden thing, / And that God is not censorious / When his children have their fling; / And life slips its tether / When the boys get together, / With a stein on the table in the fellowship of spring.