DRINK YER GLASSES EMPTY
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1993


Listen up and I'll tell you what you'll do
Forget about music and alcohol too
Forget about your baby we got other work for you
Better drink yer glasses empty now
It's time to rise and shine
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for.

It was back in '39 when I was one year old
Sitting by the backyard fence and the world had turned so cold
Drink yer glasses empty now was all that they were told
Drink yer glasses girls and boys it's time to hit the sky
To the tune of thunder there's no time to wonder why.

We'd love to take life over that is plain
Forget about sorrow, forget about pain
And watch a John Wayne movie to remind us once again
Better drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the line
You got one less cause in the world to be leaving for.

Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky
To the tune of thunder, there's a tear in every eye.

I'd like to take things one at a time
Forget about reason, forget about rhyme
And beg, steal, or borrow you got another hill to climb
So drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to hit the road
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for.
 
Drink yer glasses girls and boys, it's time to hit the sky
To the tune of thunder, there's no time to wonder why.

We'd like to take life over again
When time of war had passed away into the rain
And watch a John Wayne movie to remind us of the plains
Just drink yer glasses empty now, it's time to rise and shine
There's one less cause in the world to be leaving for.



(Transcribed by David Story - March 2013)