And answers, bore ahead, you ass,
A few feet more; you miss the stuff
Because you don’t go deep enough!
In vain! in vain! Pull up the tools!
Fill high the cup with lager-beer!
Leave oil-wells to the crazy fools
Who from the East are flocking here.
See at the first sight of the can
How hurries each red-shirted man!
Fill high the cup with lager-beer!