songs about cider

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 07:27 AM

Not another bloody Bulmer thread !!!

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 07:50 AM

Its wot I calls Bulmer Shit..............

Look on the label - artificial sugars and sweeteners.

Stick to Westons.

Just realised I never put the tune on my website - watch this space.

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 07:59 AM

By the way, the Crocketts' "Hard Cider Song," linked above, IS "Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine." They retitled the record to avoid copyright restrictions.

"Red Apple Juice" is a song originally, I think, introduced to the folk repertoire by North Carolina lawyer-banjo picker Bascom Lamar Lunsford back in the 1920s or 1930s. He probably picked it up while selling apple seedlings through the mountains, appropriately. Charlie Monroe later did a great version, which I believe is the source for the standard "Red Rocking Chair" mentioned above.

Ain't got no use for your red apple juice,
Ain't got no honey baby now, Lord, Lord,
Ain't got no sugar baby now.

And I ain't got a care for your red rocking chair … etc.

"Sal's Gone to the Cider Mill" – another one by Riley Puckett

You may also wish to google these lyrics, found on the net:

"Cider Woman" by Man's Ruin – great gonzo lyrics
"Woozy with Cider" – James Yorkston
"Apple Sugar Cider" – Facing New York
"I Am a Cider Drinker" – Wurzels
"Cider" – Chaos UK
"Apple Cider Reconstitution" – Rod Stewart
"Cider Man" – Dirty Bird
"Drink Cider From a Lemon" – Feeder

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 08:00 AM

Try this chestnut with your cider -- from http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=381

"The Harrison Yankee Doodle," William Henry Harrison campaign song

"The Harrison Yankee Doodle" from the recording entitled Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996, Folkways 45051, provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. © 1999. Used by permission.

Melody: "Yankee Doodle Dandy;" arranged by Oscar Brand/TRO-Hollis Music, Inc., BMI

Harrison's Presidential campaigns were marked by hundreds of songs. "The Harrison Yankee Doodle" magnifies his military accomplishments using a familiar melody and celebrates the very rural "log cabin and hard cider" the previous song makes fun of.

Partial lyrics:
"Come swell the throng and join the song
Make the circle wider
Join the round for Harrison, Log Cabin and Hard Cider
With Harrison our country's won
No treachery can divide her
Thy will be done
With Harrison, Log Cabin and Hard Cider …"

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 08:02 AM

Can't believe this didn't get into the thread -- did I miss it above? Said to be traditional, but ...

Cider I Up Landlord

I likes to go down the pub every other day
On my marry way for a bottle of "K"
Propping up the bar, sipping down me pint
Won't be very long before we're pissed right up tonight
Pissed right up:

Cider, cider apple tree
Cider, cider I can't see
Now I'm going out of me mind
Now I'm going fucking blind
God knows what's happening to me
Feels like I've been kicked in

Cider, cider apple tree
Cider, cider one for me
Cider I up landlord
Cider I up landlord
Put more cider in my jug

Cider I up landlord
Cider I up landlord
Put more cider in my jug
I just can't get enough
When I'm guzzling my gallon down!

I know a place in England where the cider apple grows
The farmer that lives down there has got a big red nose
He's always drinking cider, as he sits beneath the tree
Come on drink your cider up, it's the one for you and me
The one for you!

On Tuesday morning you find me signing on the dole
With all the dirty stop-outs from Easton up to Knowl
I got the blues:
The cider blues:
On Thursday morning you find him standing by the door
By 3 o'clock he's down the pub, can't even see the floor

Drink cider, drink cider
All of the day
Drink cider, drink cider
It's the only way
Drink cider, drink cider
Spend all your pay
And get bleeding binned out of it!

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 08:04 AM

Here's Drink Up the Cider, cited above, with chords from http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.ultimate-guitar.com/print.php?what=tab&id=129049

...and that's all from me for now.

GDrink up the cider George, Cpass me round the jug
GDrink up the cider George, I D7have an empty mug
The Gnight is almost over but you Csee that we're still sober
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gjug.

CHORUS
Drink up the Gcider, drink up the Ccider
GFor tonight we'll merry D7be
We'll Gknock the milkmaids over and Croll them in the clover
The Gcorn's half D7cut and so are Gwe.

GDrink up the cider George, Cthee's been goin' far
GDrink up the cider George, thee's D7gettin' quite a star
Thy Gcheeks are getting redder, from CCharthouse to Cheddar
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gjar.

GDrink up the cider George, Cget up off the mat
GDrink up the cider George, put D7on thy great big hat
We're Ggoing to borrow Gerdie, to Csee me brother Ernie
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gvat

GDrink up the cider George, Cget up off me chest
GDrink up the cider George, it's D7time you had a rest
There's Gnothin' like more cider, to Cmake your smile get wider
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gwest.

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:49 AM

yep.. also need to check out the repetoire of the 'Surfin Turnips'
from Bristol area..

still hopin to see 'em live before its too late..

[eyes & liver permitting...!!!????]

http://www.myspace.com/surfinturnips

Subject: RE: songs about cider
From: MuddleC
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 08:57 PM

some slight corrections.. and translation for the colonials..

GDrink up your cider George, Cpass me round the jug
GDrink up your cider George, the D7garden's almost dug
with dung spread over the potatoes, and halfway up your gaiters
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gjug.

GDrink up your cider George, Cyour not going far
GDrink up your cider George, thee's D7gettin' quite a star
Thy Gcheeks are getting redder, from CCharterhouse to Cheddar
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gjar.

GDrink up your cider George, Cget up off the mat
GDrink up your cider George, put D7on thy great big hat
We're Ggoing to Barrow Gurney, to Csee me brother Ernie
And there's Gstill more D7cider in the Gvat

Drink up your cider George, it's time we had a rest
Drink up your cider George, the finest ever pressed
There's nothing like good cider
To make your smile grow wider
And there's still more cider in the West!


milkmaids/ milkchurns.. take your pick!

oo-aar!