Lyrics:
My birthday comes but once a year and it's everyone's delight
To keep it up, to keep it up.
We started drinking champagne, but our money wouldn't last,
And just as I was counting up, two charming ladies passed.
They called me Charlie, not me proper name,
'Til I gave a wink, and shouted, “Have a drink.”
And so they did and soon full up they got.
We made them booze as bad as us, and all the blinking lot …
chorus:
Strolling round the town, knocking the people down,
Tasting every kind of wet, having a rare old time, you bet.
Treating all the boys, we didn't care a sou,
Rare old, fair old rickety rackety crew.
At three next morn we all stood leaning up against a wall
To keep it up, to keep it up,
Surrounded by a dozen police who on their duty call,
And when they shouted, “Move on straight” we couldn't move at all.
Every station round about the town,
Ambulance were fetched, and on them we were stretched.
And before her nibs next morning we were sent,
They fined us fifty bob a piece, just because we went …