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Thread #34299   Message #461934
Posted By: GUEST,Mr Red@Library
14-May-01 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: songs about cider
Subject: RE: songs about cider
There is one written by Ted Amphlett - never met the guy but 'tis sung in Worcestershire occasionally
laconic humour would best describe it
"My native roots are cankered, all along Evesham's green Vale"
then there is the line about the cider houses... "at various adresses that nobody talks about!"
I did have the words once but lost them. I do know a man who sings them and might bump into him
If & when I will post here
hten there is the incantation for the "Bush burning" ceremony that Dave Jones used to do on New Years Eve in his orchard at Putley
I have his widows e-mail so will try to get that
Westons Cider in Much Marcle might be able to help.
and the cider museum in Hereford should have a few
Long Live Cider. Long Live My Brain
tick one of the above