1. I see no pleasure nor joy,
Nor success until I see the wine flask.

2. Fine is liquor for a young man when
Grief besieges him or stirs his passion.

3. And wine is something that if it were made
The key to a miser's lock, his lock would open.

4. No life except liquor which I drink
Sometimes hugging the bottle, sometimes sober.

5. Oh friend, I shall not leave liquor nor
Accept in love the word of one who admonishes.