Lyr Req: Drunk Up the Cider

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunk Up the Cider
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Aug 09 - 06:35 PM

Just to keep the two threads close...

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunk Up the Cider
From: Phot
Date: 17 Aug 09 - 01:56 PM

No decent pubs in Ilchester anymore! These days Yeovilton is full of angry egg whisks, and a couple of token Hawks.

I think the pub in Taunton which held the folk club is the Weastgate, at the top of Compass hill, and I think it is still going.

Wassail! Chris

Ex 899 and 800 Sqn, and the Phot section.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunk Up the Cider
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 09 - 11:36 AM

PS:

Its DRINK UP THEE ZIDER............. not " Drunk up the Cider "

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunk Up the Cider
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 09 - 11:34 AM

" There's nothing like a good cider
To make thee smile grow wider
And there's still more cider in the West."

Adge Cutler

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: bubblyrat
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:47 AM

There used to be a good folk-club in Taunton,in a pub . I can"t remember the name of the pub, but I DO recall going there to see a "bluegrass" -style group called " Country Strings ", in about 1965, and very good they were too ! ( Well, I thought so !)--Anyone else heard of them ?? And, to stay 'on thread' --We all drank CIDER, but didn"t sing THAT song !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: BB
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:12 AM

Memories of Bath '67-'70, when scrump was 9d a pint in the Beehive - and for that matter, in the Student Union bar! I'm afraid two was about my limit, and, when I found it down in Deb'n, I preferred Taunton Cider's Natural Dry, known locally as Natch. Seemed to be just as strong, but rather more mellow - and I don't mean sweet. Unfortunately, Taunton Cider Co. is no more, and the company that took it over marketed Natural Dry as Natch, but have changed the apples and many cider fans drink it no more. Thatcher's isn't bad, though.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: MuddleC
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:53 PM

There was a farm along the Ashill straight that did 'praper' scrumpy.
I have writted these worms down and will sing 'Drink up thee cider' for the benefit of these ere folk in the parched deserts of Derbyshire

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: MuddleC
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:45 PM

I hail from Taunton so Yeovilton was a must for airdays!

HMS Fisgard, then Daedalus, and so Heron on Lynx 700L 702 Sqdns, Wessex 5 707 848 Sqdns, Air Radio Workshops.
Then RNAS Culdrose with Sea Kings ASW..

I be a-learnin' musik, muddling the art of whistle-blowing...

(I normally singe unaccomplished)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: bubblyrat
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:27 PM

Dear' Muddle C ' , ---Me too, Pinky ( Best trade colour ! ) --Worked on Sea Vixens ( 766 squadron ) and up in the tower ( Tower Radar : Marconi 965 & 264 ) Also RAF Changi ( Singapore ) and RAF Watton (Norfolk) 'cos I did some stuff with Canberras whilst with NATIU (HMS Daedalus ) ---!!! Cheers , Roger... PS is "Muddle C" a Glaswegian musical expression ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: MuddleC
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:13 PM

.... years later when I was at Yeovilton 81-82, it was a cider 'desert', keg and lager , but decent beer was to be found at the Phelps Arms Montacute.... now a restaurant..

ex pinky tiff

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: bubblyrat
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 06:34 AM

A cider reminiscence---- When I was based at RNAS Yeovilton ( HMS Heron ) in 1964-66, a pint of local scrumpy could be had of the landlord of the Duke of Clarence, next to the Gaumont cinema in Yeovil, for tenpence ha'penny ( about 4 p ! ) . We would go , more often ,to the Dolphin in Ilchester, as it was within walking distance ( at least, on the outward journey ! ) There, it was a shilling ( 5p) a pint, and still virtually undrinkable unless you had " tops " on it---(-usually orange, but some had lemon ). You wouldn"t really want more than 4 or 5 pints , so you could have a good night out on ten shillings ( 50 p ! ) ---4 pints of scrumpy, ten cigarettes ( no. 6 or no. 10 )and some chips from the chip-shop on the way back "home". Before going on Easter or Summer leave, which was always by train,we would collect all the empty vinegar-bottles from the "galley", and take them to a farm behind the airfield, at Chilton Cantello,where scrumpy was five shillings ( 25 p !! ) a GALLON !! And , yes, it DID have lumps in it ! We would then be " bussed" to Templecombe, which was very strange indeed, as Yeovil had THREE stations ,where we would all ( several hundred ) board the train / trains , in which were already ensconced the entire female garrison of the WRAC Driver Training Centre at Houndstone Camp, Yeovil. By about Westbury /Reading, there were some VERY interesting cider-fuelled " situations " developing !! To paraphrase the late,great,Adge Cutler, "There"s nothing like good cider, to make thee legs grow wider, and there"s still more cider in the West !"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:35 AM

Barrow Gurney = local mental hospital (local to Nailsea, that is).

Gint - 'Where's it to?' [Werr'zit to] means 'Where is it?'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: GUEST,jim barr
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 04:38 PM

where off to barrow-gerny for to see my brother ernie
theres still mor cider in the jars

i think thats in there too

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: bill
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 04:17 PM

Thanks gang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Gint
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 03:37 AM

If it's the begining of May yes otherwise I will be organising The Glastonbury Medieval Festival

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Micca
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 09:48 PM

Hey Gint do you know Gibbon Strangler? On the day on which my doctor told me I am diabetic, the almost only bright spot was his advice to stick to dry cider as it is almost residual sugar free and gets you pissed cheaper. Do you go to Hastings for the Mayday weekend?, if yes take a look at the picture page and you can see what I do there. the pubs in the Old Town ie the FILO has Proper cider.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Gint
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 07:37 PM

Micca, someone who drinks Biddendens (Weald time warp)

I reacently met Thatchers, not the supermarket stuff, you get two flavours red or green, both have a sort of luninessence served up as Chernobyl or Sellerfield

£1.50 per pint... quality stuff

but it does answer why west country people speak with a slow drawl and lose some of their words

ie;

Where are you now

where you to

Where is the package comming from

Where's it to

and many more

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:36 AM

make (not male)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Ted from Australia
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:35 AM

Last line of 2nd chorus
There's nowt like good old cider to male the arsehole wider.
and there's--- etc I think that SeanM's version is the politically corrected one.
Regards Ted

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 04:24 AM

I think other versions have "knocked the milkchurns over" and even "knocked the milkmaids over" (which makes rolling them in the clover more interesting!),but it may be my tinnitus interefering with my comprehension!
RtS( who has painful memories of being veryill after a night on rough cider as a callow youth, but who still enjoys a glass or three of the dry still varieties)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: SeanM
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 05:54 PM

Folk variations... we sing a fairly clean version. I've since found one or two amusingly filthy versions.

Also seen "So let's all have another round" for the last line of the chorus, and a lot of others, basically all stating either "I'm drunk", or "give me more booze"...

Ah, the life of the non-PC...

M

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 05:48 PM

The chorus actually ends 'for the corn's half cut and so be we.... which makes slightly more sense, plus a nice play on worms....

LTS, who was brought up on cider and loathes this song because my mother played it every sodding day, thank you Adge Cutler!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: SeanM
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 03:54 PM

Almost right. There're a couple missing breaks around the chorus (of which there's only one chorus, repeated), but I hope that helps.

M

Subject: Lyr Add: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: SeanM
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 03:49 PM

Hi Bill...

I'm with a group that does this song (or at least a song by that title)... hope this is what you're looking for.

Drink up the Cider
lyr:Trad, New lyr: Steve Morales

Drink up the cider jar, pass us 'round the jug
Drink up the cider jar, my lips are all tied up
Eat up all your smelt, then loosen up your belt
And there's still more cider in the jar

Chorus Drink up the cider, drink up the cider,
For tonight we'll merry be
We'll knock the millstones over
And roll them in the clover
The cider is jarred, and so are we

Drink up the cider jar, things are going far
Drink up the cider jar, we're getting quite a start
My cheeks are getting redder, my sight is getting better
And there's still more cider in the jar

Chorus
Drink up the cider jar, get it in your chest.
Drink up the cider jar, it's time I had a rest
There's nothing like more cider to make my smile grow wider
And there's still more cider in the jar

Hope this helps...

M

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 01:54 PM

Try it after 4 or 5 pints of some good stuff like Biddenden or( I kid you not) Gibbon Strangler,if you can stand to sing, No Problem, the words will even make sense.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 10:39 AM

Thread creep warning:
The UK papers say that there is a big sales drive by Bulmers to sell cider to China so perhaps the autotranslator should be working overtime!
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: Skipjack
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 10:16 AM

If you cassn't understand 'em, 'tis the way they talk in Zummerzet, dunn'm, ye girt puddin'.

Subject: DRINK UP THE CIDER
From: BILL
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 10:11 AM

I HAVE A RECORDING OF THE SONG BUT CAN'T UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE WORDS.