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G4WYW > BEER 28.01.07 20:45l 85 Lines 3082 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: G4EBT > Oz and beer
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Sent: 070128/1320Z @:GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU #:16389 [Blackpool] FBB-7.03a $:F99892G4
From: G4WYW@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : BEER@WW
G0TEZ wrote:-
> But who sang that song, many years ago.
>
> Something like:
>
> Though it's lonesome away from your kindred at all.
> In the bush late at night.
> When the wild dingoes call.
>
> There's nothing so lonesome,morbid or drear,
> As to stand at the bar of a pub with no beer.
>
>
> probably wrong, just from memory. I don't know who sang it. I think it > was
> before we got Rolf |Harris and Barrie Humphreys inflicted on us.
>
> Even sending Kylie and ONJ, can't make up for that!
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A PUB WITH NO BEER
(Gordon Parsons)
Slim Dusty - 1957
Ted Egan - 1976
The Clancy Brothers - 1988
Midnight Oil - 1988
Also recorded by: Adge Cutler & The Wurzels;
The Dubliners; Danny O'Flaherty; Hamish Imlach.
It's lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the camp fire at night where the wild dingoes call,
But there's nothing so lonesome so morbid or drear
Than to stand in a bar of a pub with no beer.
Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come
There's a far away lock on the face of the bum
The maid's gone all cranky and the cook's acting queer
What a terrible place is a pub with no beer.
Then the stock-man rides up with his dry dusty throat
He breasts up to the bar, pulls a wat from his coat,
But the smile on his face quickly turns to a sneer,
When the bar man said sadly the pub's got no beer.
Listen to it here:-
http://www.imagesaustralia.com/yarrariverculture.htm
The story behind this famous song begins during WWII when there was a
shortage of beer, especially in country areas. With this in mind, Dan
Sheahan wrote a few verses in 1944 lamenting the lack of beer in his pub
in North Queensland. A while later Gordon Parsons, country music singer,
song writer, and recording artist, developed it into a song and added all
the characters.
Gordon was friends with Slim Dusty and joined him on one of his tours.
He planned to record the song, but let Slim use it for the "B" side to his
new song Saddle Boy. Much to Slim's surprise, the "B" song, The Pub with
No Beer, rose to #1 at 2UE radio station in Sydney from all the air play
it received. It wasn't long before it was #1 across the country. Slim
Dusty received the first gold record awarded in Australia for the song.
Over the years, Slim recorded more songs by his friend. Gordon Parsons was
added to the Australasian Music Roll of Renown at Tamworth for 1982-83 to
honour his contribution to Australian country music. Their friend Dan
Sheahan enjoyed going to Dusty's shows until he was in his 90's.
Ther's a dog on the 'randa-h for his master he waits
But the boss is inside drinking wine with his mates
He hurries for cover and cringes in fear
It's no place for a dog round a pub with no beer.
Old Billy the blacksmith first time in his life
Has gone home cold sober to his darling wife,
He walks in the kitchen, she says you're early me dear,
But he breaks down and tells her the pub's got no beer
73 - Mel, G4WYW @ GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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