As I enter town one fine summers day I was ambushed and beaten, my purse snatched away My companions they laughed; said I was an a**, So it's off to the Ale House to get me a gla**! And now that you know my sad tale of woe Me life it gets harder the farther I go These words of advice to you I now pa** The future looks brighter when seen through a gla**! I came to me home after working all night, I crept through the house as to not wake up me wife, I fonud her asleep in the arms of a la** So it's back to the Ale House to get me a gla**! And now that you know my sad tale of woe Me life it gets harder the farther I go These words of advice to you I now pa**, The future looks brighter when seen through a gla**! Me mother said she was blind and near dead She needed some money to buy her a bread I payed her for a month, she moved upwards in cla**, She now owns the Ale House were I buy a gla**!
And now that you know my sad tale of woe Me life it gets harder the farther I go These words of advice to you I now pa** The future looks brighter when seen through a gla**! While going to market I bumped a price pool The mergent who owned it dared me to a duel. I packed up me bags, left town in a dash, I'm in the next county now drinking a gla**! And now that you know my sad tale of woe, Me life it gets harder the farther I go. These words of advice to you I now pa**, The future looks brighter when seen through a gla**! "Have courage!" there came a voice from the rear; "All you need is a little bit food and strong beer. All of us here have sad tales fromt he past, A man's life is spend in the pursuit for a gla**! And now that you know my sad tale of woe Me life it gets harder the farther I go. These words of advice to you I now pa**, The future looks brighter when seen through a gla**!