We’re anchor’d by the roadside, Jim, Where oft we’ve sat before, When you and I were weary, Jim, When we were half seas-o’er; When the bright full moon in splendor, Jim, Shone down on you and I, And the little stars kept winkin’, Jim, As we drank the old jug dry. Ah! those were happy days, Jim, Those good old days of yore-- When Rockwood kept the tavern, Jim, And Potter own’d the store; When whiskey ran as freely, Jim, As water in the brook, And good men for their stomach’s sake Their morning bitters took. But times have changed since then, Jim, And men have alter’d, too-- And some have undertaken, Jim, To put rumsellers through: They say that whiskey’s poison, Jim, And many graves has dug: That scores of _snakes_ and _devils_, Jim, Are in our good old jug. Who cares for all such prattle, Jim, To them it may be sense-- We’ll lay when we’re a mind to, Jim, Beneath the old rail fence; This stuff they call _cold water_, Jim, Won’t do for you and I; We’ll pull the cork at leisure, Jim, And drink the old jug dry. Give ’em String and let ’em Went. 38 Life is but a span of horses One is Age, the other Prime; Up and down the hill our course is; “Go in, ponies, make your time.” Boyhood flies the whip of pleasure, Youthful folly gives a stroke; Manhood goads them at his leisure; “Let ’em rip--they’re tough as oak.” “Hi, yo! there: the stakes we’ll pocket; To the winds let them be sent: Time: 2 40--whip in socket: Give ’em string and let ’em went.” On the sunny road to fifty, Prime is drown’d in Lethe’s stream; Age is left old and unthrifty; Life then proves a “one horse team.” Age jogs on, grows quite unsteady, Reels and slackens in his pace, Kicks the bucket, always ready, Gives it up--Death wins the race. Go it while You’re Young. Money’s scarce they say, and very well we know it, Then surely the best way, is while you’re young to go it; The banks are all flat broke, their rags are good for naught, The specie’s all bespoke, then certainly you ought to-- _Go it_ while you’re young, For when you’re old you _can’t_, Let scandal hold her tongue And bid dull care avaunt.