Drink Yer Glasses Empty Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

Listen up and I'll tell you what you'll do 

Forget about music and alcohol too 

Forget about your baby 

We got other work for you 

Better drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to rise and shine 

There's one less cause in the world 

To be leaving for 

It was back in 39 

When I was one year old 

Sitting by the backyard fence 

And the world had turned so cold 

Drink yer glasses empty now 

Was all that they were told 

Drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to hit the sky 

To the tune of thunder 

There's no time to wonder why 

We'd love to take life over that is plain 

Forget about sorrow, forget about pain 

And watch a John Wayne movie 

To remind us once again 

Better drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to hit the line 

You got one less cause in the world 

To be leaving for 

Drink yer glasses girls and boys 

It's time to hit the sky 

To the tune of thunder 

There's a tear in every eye 

I'd like to take things one at a time 

Forget about reason, forget about rhyme 

Because beg, steal or borrow 

You got another hill to climb 

So drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to hit the road 

There's one less cause in the world 

To be leaving for 

Drink yer glasses girls and boys 

It's time to hit the sky 

To the tune of thunder 

There's no time to wonder why 

We'd like to take life over again 

When time of war had passed away into the rain 

And watch a John Wayne movie 

To remind us of the plains 

Just drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to rise and shine 

There's one less cause in the world 

To be leaving for 

Listen up and I'll tell you what is true 

They done some thinking and they changed a thing or two 

You been living in the hindsight 

Of a backwards point of view 

So drink yer glasses empty now 

It's time to hit the road 

There's one less cause in the world 

To be leaving for