The Company

In our private T&T yahoo group, we are discussing the merits of T&T...what we get out of it other than entertainment.  For many it is just a social event like getting drunk and playing poker.  I have been playing T&T for 30 years this year.  To me T&T is much more than an occasional social event.  To me it has been friendship, creative license, motivation to further my education, and exploring a sense of wonder most people abandon in childhood, among countless other things.  For me, T&T is The Company, as explained by Fish in his eponymous song:


Where beggars take cheques and children steal credit cards from the pockets of wrecks in the middle of the road. I came to in my future and that was just yesterday, unsure of my past and that's a knot in my gut. You buy me a drink then you think that you've got the right to crawl in my head and rifle my soul. You tell me I'm free and want me to compromise, to sell out my dreams you say you'll make it worthwhile. Oh, boys would you drink to me now, here on the hill, half way up, half way down. You tell me I'm drunk, then you sit back and smug a while, convinced that you're right, that you're still in command of your senses. I laugh at your superior attitude; your insincere platitudes make me throw up. Oh, boys would you drink to me now, here on the hill, half way up, half way down. Oh, boys would you drink to me now, here on the hill, half way up, half way down. Oh for the company born to the company, live for the company until I die. The sooner you realise that I'm perfectly happy if I'm left to decide the company I choose. The company I choose is solidly singular, totally trustworthy, straight, and sincere; polished, experienced, witty, and charming; so why don't you push off, this company's my own. Oh, boys would you drink to me now here on the hill, half way up, half way down. Oh, boys would you drink to me now here on the hill, half way up, half way down. Oh for the company, dream of the company; live for the company until I die. Oh for the company, dream of the company, drink to the company until we die; until we die; until we die.