IN THE HAYMARKET.I DANCED at your ball a year ago,To-night I pay for your bread and cheese,“And a glass of bitters, if you please,For you drank my best champagne, you know!”Madcap ever, you laugh the while,As you drink your bitters and munch your bread;The face is the same, and the same old smileCame up at a word I said.A year ago I danced at your ball,I sit by your side in the bar to-night;And the luck has changed, you say: that’s all!And the luck will change, you say: all right!For the men go by, and the rent’s to pay,And you haven’t a friend in the world to-day;And the money comes and the money goes:And to-night, who cares? and to-morrow, who knows?
I DANCED at your ball a year ago,To-night I pay for your bread and cheese,“And a glass of bitters, if you please,For you drank my best champagne, you know!”
Madcap ever, you laugh the while,As you drink your bitters and munch your bread;The face is the same, and the same old smileCame up at a word I said.
A year ago I danced at your ball,I sit by your side in the bar to-night;And the luck has changed, you say: that’s all!And the luck will change, you say: all right!
For the men go by, and the rent’s to pay,And you haven’t a friend in the world to-day;And the money comes and the money goes:And to-night, who cares? and to-morrow, who knows?