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Rosin The Bow

I've traveled all over this world and now to another I go
And I know that good quarters are waiting to welcome old Rosin the Bow

Chorus

To welcome old Rosin the Bow, to welcome old Rosin the Bow
And I know that good quarters are waiting to welcome old Rosin the Bow


When I'm dead and laid out on the counter, a voice you will hear from below
Saying, 'Send down a hogshead of whiskey to drink with old Rosin the Bow

Chorus

To drink with old Rosin the Bow, to drink with old Rosin the Bow
Saying, 'Send down a hogshead of whiskey to drink with old Rosin the Bow

And get a half dozen stout fellows and stack them all up in a row
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles to the memory of Rosin the Bow

Chorus

Get this half dozen stout fellows and let hem all stagger and go
And dig a great hole in the meadow and in it put Rosin the Bow

Chorus

Get ye a couple of bottles. Put one at me head and me toe
With a diamond ring scratch upon them the name of old Rosin the Bow

Chorus

I feel that old tyrant approaching, that cruel remorseless old fool
And I lift up me glass in his honour to drink with old Rosin the Bow

Last chorus twice
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