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Thread #78456   Message #93489
Posted By: Wotcha
08-Jul-99 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Man that Waters the Workers' Beer
Subject: RE: the very fat man who waters the worker's beer
Roberts and Barrand sang it on their "Live at Holstein's" album (available only on cassetter tape from Andy's Front Hall records). Apparently collected from a popular 30s or 40s song -- anti-capitalism stuff.

Their chorus is a bit different:

" For I reaches me hand for the watering can, and I waters the workers beer For I've got a car, a yacht, an aeroplane, And I waters the worker's beer."

Cheers, Brian