The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70432   Message #1203593
Posted By: Blackcatter
09-Jun-04 - 11:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Beer beer beer
Subject: RE: BS: Beer beer beer
Am I missing something, or is this song not in the Digital Tradition?

Beer, Beer, Beer

Chorus
Oh, he must have been an admiral, a sultan or a king,
And to his praises we shall always sing!
Look what he has done for us, he's filled us up with cheer.
The Lord bless Charley Mopps, the man who invented beer, beer, beer!
Tiddley, beer, beer, beer.

A long time ago, way back in history,
When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea
Along came a man by the name of Charley Mopps,
And he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops.

A bushel of hops, a barrel of malt, you stir it around with a stick
The kind of lubrication to make your engine tick
Fourteen pints of wallop a' day will keep away the quacks
It's only eight and six a pint and one and four in tax

The Clancy's Bar, O'Reilly's Pub, the Hole-in-the-Wall, as well
One thing you can be sure of, it's Charley's beer they sell
Come in all me lucky lads, eleven o'clock she stops!
Five short seconds now, to remember Charley Mopps.
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Mostly based on the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem version.