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21 Aug 03 - 05:35 AM (#1005727) Subject: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan Can't find this on Mudcat or elsewhere on the net. Does anyone remember this old song whose chorus starts: Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown, The finest old beer that's sold in this town Any help appreciated. Joan |
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21 Aug 03 - 06:36 AM (#1005753) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Hrothgar There was one to the tune of "Cushie Butterfield" that had a chorus like this: It's a big beer and a bonnie beer With the North's largest sale For complete satisfaction Newcastle Brown Ale. Had a couple of verses, I think, which I can't remember. |
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21 Aug 03 - 07:11 AM (#1005758) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Little Robyn Wasn't that a TV commercial? |
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21 Aug 03 - 08:35 AM (#1005803) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Snuffy Yes |
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21 Aug 03 - 01:26 PM (#1005968) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Jim McLean My wife (from up there) calls it 'Newkie Broon' |
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21 Aug 03 - 01:54 PM (#1005986) Subject: Lyr Add: NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE (from Hamish Imlach) From: GUEST,MMario How about this version? NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE (as sung by Hamish Imlach) (Stan Arnold) Tune: Five Hundred Miles A hundred yards, a hundred yards A hundred yards, a hundred yards And I'm one hundred yards away from home I've been out on the town, care of Newcastle Brown And I don't think I'll get home this a-way This a-way The pub door is shut tight, I'm alone here in the night And I'm one hundred yards away from home I can't shout, speak or stutter as I lie here in the gutter And the last bus flashes by over my tie Over my tie My foot's stuck down a drain and it's coming on to rain And I'm one hundred yards away from home I bet I look superb with my head propped on the kerb I can see my home in the flash of a neon light That split the night Now I hear the steady beat of a policeman's hobnailed feet And I'm one hundred yards away from home So in this prison cell I lie with tyre-marks on my tie Take a heed, young man, wherever you may roam You may roam If you think you're the wild rover make sure you don't fall over When you're one hundred yards away from home |
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21 Aug 03 - 02:05 PM (#1005998) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Santa If you want a beer that's perfection indeed I'll give you a guide to fulfilling your need At home by your fireside, in pub or in bar The sign of good taste is the famous Blue Star It's a big beer, it's a bottled beer...is how I remember the chorus. With the last line repeated. I don't remember any other verses. |
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21 Aug 03 - 02:35 PM (#1006019) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,MCP MMario that song was written by Stan Arnold who was responsible for a host of humourous songs during the 70s. He used to claim the song was co-authored by Paul Simon, who contributed the flash of a neon light... bit. Mick correction made - joeclone |
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21 Aug 03 - 02:58 PM (#1006029) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan There's a lot of songs there, and thanks to all who've contributed so far; but none of them is the one I'm looking for, I'm afraid! (see first part of chorus I've quoted.) It's definitely not to the tune of "Cushie Butterfield" or "Five Hundred Miles", it has a unique tune of its own. The song is a humorous one, and the last verse involves an encounter with the devil. Does no one remember it? (from about late 60s / early 70s, I think.) Joan |
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22 Aug 03 - 02:02 PM (#1006572) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan refresh |
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22 Aug 03 - 05:18 PM (#1006690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Susanne (skw) Thanks, Mick. A correction of the author's name is on the way for My Songbook, but it will take rather longer than on the Mudcat as my Joeclone (Henry) is on holiday ... |
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22 Aug 03 - 06:12 PM (#1006708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: TheBigPinkLad Santa, if my memory serves it was sung by the great Owen Brannigan. |
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22 Aug 03 - 06:37 PM (#1006715) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: CraigS I know of the song you want; the tune is Whit Jamboree. I can't remember much beyond something like "On friday nights we take the cars and we visit a few of the local bars But there's nothing there which can compare with the real Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown, ...... hanging on behind (obviously not pig-tailed sailors) Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown, Oh come and get your oats my son. |
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23 Aug 03 - 06:02 AM (#1006885) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Dead Horse Whit Jamboree? As opposed to August Bank Holiday Jamboree? Refreshing as we speak. |
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23 Aug 03 - 06:33 AM (#1006896) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan No, sorry, it's not to the tune of "Whip Jamboree", it does have a tune of its own which I've not heard used for any other song. Thanks for all the suggestions so far, I didn't know there were so many songs about Newcastle Brown! Joan |
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23 Aug 03 - 02:13 PM (#1007067) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST I think the song you are thinking of was by Ted Edwards. I can only remember a few of the words but here goes A long time ago in the land of the Tyne The natives were all getting tired of wine So they dredged up some muck from the Tyne river bed Added gallons of nitro and then proudly said Chorus "Call it Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown, It's the finest of beer that you'll find in this town I'd walk many a mile to sit here in style And drink of that Newcastle Brown." Unfortunately I can't remember any other verses. If you find anyone who has the book that Ted published in the early seventies, the words are in there. My copy went west years ago but if you know any folkies from the Eccles area they might just have one lurking around. |
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24 Aug 03 - 05:16 AM (#1007262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan Thank you, Guest! That is the one! I was beginning to think I was the only one who remembered hearing it. Now all we need are the other verses... Joan |
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25 Aug 03 - 05:16 AM (#1007684) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan refresh |
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27 Aug 03 - 11:05 PM (#1009371) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Jim Dixon Guest, if you're still lurking, can you tell us anything more about this Ted Edwards? Google gives hundreds of hits on that name, most of them unrelated to music. The usual music sites only come up with Teddy Edwards, a black jazz tenor-sax player. |
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28 Aug 03 - 04:05 AM (#1009438) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan Jim, Ted Edwards was very well known on the local folk scene (i.e.north-west England) until a few years ago, when he suffered a stroke and has been unable to give public performances since (although he usually attends the Swinton Folk Festival at the end of October). He wrote such classics as "Coal Hole Cavalry" and "The Coal and Albert Berry", amongst many others. I must admit I did't know he'd written the Newcastle Brown song, I thought it had been written by a Geordie, but I'll take Guest's word on that. |
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28 Aug 03 - 07:06 PM (#1009877) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST Definitely written by Ted. I'd actually been told he was dead so I am very glad to hear that he isn't. At the time I knew him he was a regular at the Duke of York in Eccles (early seventies - that's the era, not my age!). Nice guy and a real character. He followed the Baha'i religion if I remember correctly. I think he had ceased performing before the web got going so you are unlikely to find much on the net. |
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29 Aug 03 - 06:40 AM (#1010127) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joan from Wigan I've never discussed religion with him, so don't know about that. But certainly a character. One summer trekked across the Sahara with a camel, then the following year (or the year after that, my memory isn't too clear) trekked across Greenland. He was also really miffed that he'd been just too old to be picked as one of the astronauts on Challenger - this was before the tragedy. And always a superbly professional performer, one of the greats I was privileged to book a number of times at folk clubs I was running at the time. Never a dull moment with Ted, and a great loss to the folk scene when his health deteriorated. I think the lyrics for his "Coal and Albert Berry" are on the web, but none of his early stuff. It would be good to get hold of much of his material, he never wrote a bad song. |
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17 Dec 05 - 10:21 AM (#1629458) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,Philippa the thread requesting a song "one star" reminded me that Luke Killen (and/or John Roberts and Tony Barrand??)had a number about the Christmas and Newcastle Ale can anyone resurrect it? |
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14 Jul 12 - 01:21 PM (#3376168) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,Paul in Nottingham A japanese geordie went back to japan and when he was asked by the jap customs man,what have you to declare,he said six wedgewood plates a bottle of whiskey and 28 crates of that newcasle brown-newcastle browm it's the finest of ale you'll find in this town etc etc. There is also a verse about a marriage but cannot remember all. |
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15 Jul 12 - 09:24 AM (#3376468) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,Raggytash It's " A Japanese TOURIST went back to Japan" The marriage verse goes (I think) A young lad from Eccles got marries quite quick to a pretty young chic who he'd put up the stairs on the night of their wedding his face went all red for it wasn't a guzunder stuck under the bed it were newcastle brown, newcastle brown etc |
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15 Mar 17 - 10:48 AM (#3845056) Subject: RE: ted edwards From: GUEST,tony connolly Ted is a client of mine, so sad to see a great man like Ted become a shadow of his former self, lost none of his sense of humour, just hard to communicate now. Thank you Ted for some great tunes. |
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15 Mar 17 - 03:37 PM (#3845117) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST Ted sounds a fine man, but Newkie Broon is a shadow of its former self- think it's now brewed in the huge factory in Tadcaster, Yorkshire- Yorkshire!!! How are the mighty fallen! |
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16 Mar 17 - 02:56 PM (#3845262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST Yes it used to be brewed by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries up at Bath Lane, Newcastle. I went to college past there and what a lovely smell a brewery is. The Scottish Brewery was closed, then Newcastle, leaving only the 'and'. First it went to Gateshead and now Tadcaster. How the law lets them keep the name I don't know. Foul stuff, as ever it was. |
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16 Mar 17 - 03:28 PM (#3845264) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST Lunatic Broth or Journey into Space were two names applied to the old Newcastle brewed beer- there was little choice as to what beer to take to a party- there was an Amber Ale in bottles (suspect it was the same brew plus more water? I preferred Vaux Double Maxim, now revived by a small modern brewery but IMHO the original was much better than NBA,. which I agree was foul stuff- mind you it was better than the new southern arrival in a giant tin- Watney's Party Seven- AAAAARGH!!! |
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17 Mar 17 - 03:23 PM (#3845397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,jim bainbridge the mention of Owen Brannigan singing the praises of Newcastle Brown Ale on Tyne Tees TV in the sixties brings to mind the fact that he was a lifelong teetotaller... |
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17 Mar 17 - 06:57 PM (#3845433) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: GUEST,Steve Bassett The song 'Newcastle Brown' is often preceded by a short poem called 'Ma's Constipation': Me Granny told me a story once all about the day Ma Firkin caught constipation and it wouldn't go away, So they sent for Dr Firkin, now he came from Wallsend, But when pills and potions didn't work they thought they'd best try tother end, So they sent for Uncle Firkin, now he was a building wrecker, not a man of medicine its true but he had a black and decker, So they drilled away for a week and a day with Ma rolled on her belly, but all they found was two half crowns, three candles and a welly. So then they sent for cousin Firkin and he came from Geordie town and with him he did bring six crates of Newcastle Brown! After only 18 pints Ma wept tears of joy. Said the cousin see I told you it'll cure any firkin man, woman or boy. They started a bed pan service out into the yard, where the drains all filled up rapidly and the rhubarb grew like mad. There's a happy ending to all of this, if it's to be believed. Cos the next day's papers headlines were: Ma Firkins been relieved. You then go straight into the song: Newcastle Brown A long time ago in the land of the Tyne, The natives were all getting tired of wine, So they dredged up some mud from the Tyne river bed, Added a gallon of nitro, and then proudly said: CHORUS: "Call it Newcastle Brown, Newcastle Brown. It's the finest old beer that you'll find in this town. I'd walk many a mile, to sit here in style And drink of the Newcastle Brown." A drunken young Geordie got married quite quick To a pretty young lass that he'd put up the – stairs. On the night of the wedding her face was quite red For it wasn't a jerry stuck under the bed. CHORUS: It was Newcastle Brown.... A Japanese tourist went back to Japan, And when he was asked by the Jap customs man, "What have you to declare?" he said, "Six Wedgwood plates, A bottle of whiskey and twenty six crates— CHORUS: "Of Newcastle Brown...." A wayward young climber who fell from a fell Parted body from soul and went down to hell. As he entered the furnace, what did he find? There was the Devil p***** out of his mind— Chorus: "On Newcastle Brown... |
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17 Mar 17 - 08:20 PM (#3845443) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Leadfingers I understand there is a CD of Ted Edward's songs available - I recall somewhere a thread in here on that subject "! |
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17 Mar 17 - 08:25 PM (#3845445) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Leadfingers Try http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=88853#1670088 |
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17 Mar 17 - 08:46 PM (#3845447) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown From: Joe Offer Thread #131779 Message #2978158 Posted By: Jim Dixon 01-Sep-10 - 11:32 PM Thread Name: Lyr Req: Newcastle Brown (Ted Edwards) Subject: Lyr Add: NEWCASTLE BROWN (Ted Edwards) This was posted on 27-Apr-2009 by a Mudcat member called Greenm who only posted 9 times (under that name, anyway)—the last time was on 07-Oct-09. The thread was called Beer drinking song suggestion needed: |