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Here's to our wives, who fill our lives with
little bees and honey!
They break life's shocks, they mend our
socks-
But don't they spend the money!
Hips that touch liquor shall never fall
down.
Here's to a bird, a bottle and an open-work
stocking.
There's nothing in this that's so very
shocking.
The bird came from Jersey, the bottle from
France.
The open-work stocking was seen at a
dance.
Here's to our wives; they are like cider–
the longer you leave them standing around, the
more of a kick you get.
Here's to Prohibition; hippy days!
Here's to a long life, and may you live a
thousand years and I a thousand years less one
day, for I would not care to live after you had
passed away.
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