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:

[I have reformatted the lyrics a bit.]

Back in the sixties a young chap from Manchester who played a five string guitar (Ted Edwards) produced the following about an iconic North East beer, Newcastle Brown. I left Manchester in 1974 to live in the North East and found out first hand about "Newkie Brown" - it's all true. I don't know if Ted is still around or if he is still touring the world.

1. 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 gallons 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."

2. 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....

3. 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...."

4. A wayward young climber who fell from a fell
Parted soul from his body and went down to hell.
As he entered the furnace, what did he find?
There was the Devil out of his mind—

CHORUS: Drinking Newcastle Brown....