This song asks you to remember people from your past and raise a toast to them, which made it a popular song to sing at New Year's and other celebrations.
He was pretty much alone in the world now, and attendance at his funeral would be mostly held down to the people he had worked with and that old renegade Masterton, who would at least drink to him.
They would also perform prayers, hymns, and songs, poor libations on tombs during burials and offer votives, which were left at temples, sacred spots, and tombs.