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Come fill up your glasses with whiskey and beer
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And drink a full glass to a happy new year
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To our sisters and brothers, and may they live long,
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So lift up your glasses and join in this song
 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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Long life to the miners the whole world around,
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Who spend their days in a hole underground,
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Whose road is a tunnel, whose day is the night,
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Out of danger and darkness they bring light

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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Our thanks too the fishermen and safe may they toil,
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And also to the farmer who turns up the soil;
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To the ploughmen and shepherds and all men of worth,
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Whose joy is to harvest the fruits of the earth.

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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Here's to the drivers and firemen and the rest of the team,
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Who keep the stock rolling by diesel and steam,
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To the cleaners and shunters who work night and day,
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And the track laying gangs on the permanent way.

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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A toast to the casual laboring man,
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Who lives where his work is, who works where he can,
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To the builders and spidermen and bold engineers,
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May your wages keep rising, lads, over the years.

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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To the writers and artists, then, let's drink a health,
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To people whose hopes, and whose dreams are our wealth,
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Whose tools are but canvas or paper and pen,
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Whose harvest is the future and the progress of men,

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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Let the men drink a health to their sweethearts and wives,
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And the ladies, being willing, will greet them likewise,
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May your pleasures be many, your troubles bu few,
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May you treasure the day you made one out of two.

 
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So we'll fill up your glasses and drink once again,
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To peace on earth and good will among men

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Let's drink to our children and let us prepare,
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A world where they'll live free from sorrow and care,
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A world where goodwill among men is the law,
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A world without fallout, a world without war.