Drink with me to days gone by,
Sing with me the songs we knew.
Here’s to pretty girls
Who went to our heads,
Here’s to witty girls
Who went to our beds.
Here’s to them,
And here’s to you.

Alain Boublil (b. 1941) French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

Les Misérables, “Drink with Me” [music by Claude-Michel Schönberg] (1980) [tr. Herbert Kretzmer (1985)]