| The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar | 
| Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown, | 
| Too old and too odd to be drunk with, by far; | 
| So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are, | 
| And they say that he tipples alone. | 
| And they say that he tipples alone. | 
| His frockcoat is green and the nap is no more, | 
| And his hat is not quite at its best; | 
| He wears the peaked collar our grandfathers wore, | 
| The black-ribbon tie that was legal of yore, | 
| And the coat buttoned over his breast. | 
| And the coat buttoned over his breast. | 
| But I dreamed, as he tasted his 'bitter' to-night, | 
| And the lights in the bar-room grew dim, | 
| That the shades of the friends of that other day’s light, | 
| And of girls that were bright in our grandfathers" sight, | 
| Lifted shadowy glasses to him. | 
| Lifted shadowy glasses to him. | 
| Yes the old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar | 
| Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown, | 
| Too old and too odd to be drunk with, by far; | 
| So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are, | 
| And they say that he tipples alone. | 
| Then I opened the door, and the old man passed out, | 
| With his short, shuffling step and bowed head; | 
| And I sighed; | 
| for I felt, as I turned me about, | 
| An odd sense of respect, born of whisky no doubt, | 
| For a life that was fifty years dead. | 
| For a life that was fifty years dead. | 
| And I thought, there are times when our memory trends | 
| Through the future, as 'twere on its own, | 
| That I, out-of-date ere my pilgrimage ends, | 
| In a new-fashioned bar to dead loves and dead friends | 
| Might drink, like the old man, alone. | 
| Might drink, like the old man, alone. |