Old men answer the call from time to time 
To gather round a pint like times of old;
Together they are always in their prime.

Like mountaineers at rest after a climb
Commune and like to tell how they were bold,
Old men answer the call from time to time.

They cheer each other on, it’s not a crime:
Why go for bronze when you can go for gold?
Together they are always in their prime.

With lira floírín shilling franc and dime
Long fated to be cast in the same mold,
Old men answer the call from time to time. 

They cherish what they know to be sublime,
A sharing that cannot be bought or sold:
Together they are always in their prime.

This is a boys’ reunion salt and lime,
A break from sniper alley’s dreaded hold;
Old men answer the call from time to time,
Together they are always in their prime.