Come, have a drink with me –
Care can swallow love,
And tasks devour time
Enough of cups of tea!
Your eyes, ever more sublime,
Dancing bright above
A brown and friendly beer
Will soon meet mine, my dear
Intoxicatingly.
Darkness is tumbling from the flies
And fills the gloomy wings
Your backstage lover sits and sighs...
Even the Beatles are passé now
And memory of Sinatra fades
On flower power they’ve pulled the shades...