Crambambuli / Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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W:Camp Fire Version:
W:
W:When topay my purse is debtor
W:BY bowls and billiards cleaned out quite
W:Tra-lira!
W:When brings the post the black-sealed letter
W:Or my dear girl forgets to write
W:Tra lira!
W:I drink from sheer melancholie
W:A little glass Crambambuli
W:rambimbambambuli Crambambuli
W:
W:Were I the Kaiser Maximilian
W:A noble order in the land
W:Tra lira!
W:I'd make, and paint in bright vermillion
W:This motto on a silver band
W:TRa lira!
W:"Touiours fidele et sanssouci,
W:C'est  l'ordre du Crambambuli!"
W:rambimbambambuli Crambambuli
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W:Version I originally had
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W:1
W:Crambambuli is the title
W:Of that good old song we love the best;
W:It is the means of health most vital,
W:When evil fortunes us molest.
W:From evening late till morning free,
W:I'll drink my glass, crambambuli,
W:Cram bim bam bu li, cram-bam-bu-li.
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W:2
W:Were I into an inn ascended,
W:Most like some noble cavalier,
W:I leave the bread and roast untended,
W:And bid them bring the corkscrew here.
W:When blows the post-boy tran tan te,
W:Then to my glass, crambambuli,
W:Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.
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W:3
W:Were I a prince of power unbounded,
W:Like Kaiser Maximillian,-
W:For me were there an order founded,
W:'Tis this device I'd hang thereon:
W:"Toujours fidele et sans souci,
W:C'est l'ordre du crambambuli,"
W:Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.
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W:4
W:Crambambuli, it still shall cheer me,
W:When every other joy is past;
W:When o'er the glass, friend, death draws near me,
W:To mar my pleasure at the last.
W:'Tis then we'll drink in company,
W:The last glass of crambambuli,
W:Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.

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