Cannikin Clink by Tom Schnauber

A setting of the drinking song texts from Shakespeare's "Othello" Act II, scene iii.

Performed by Ryu-Kyung Kim, mezzo; and Hyun-ji Kwon, cello

King Stephen was a worthy peer,
His breeches cost him but a crown,
He held them sixpence all too dear,
With that he called the tailor lown.
He was a wight of high renown,
And thou art but of low degree,
'Tis pride that pulls the country down,
Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Some wine, ho!
And let me the cannikin clink, clink,
And let me the cannikin clink.
A soldier’s a man,
A life’s but a span,
Why then let a soldier drink.