Garnets Homemade Beer

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GARNET'S HOMEMADE BEER Time: 2/2 Tenor: D Bass: C

- Ian Robb, 1978, on: From Different Angels

- Music: Barrett's Privateers (Stan Rogers)

Oh, the year was Nineteen Seventy-eight

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

When a score of men were turned quite green

By the scummiest ale you've ever seen

God damn them all, I was told

This beer was worth its weight in gold

We'd feel no pain, shed no tears

But it's a foolish man who shows no fear

At a glass of Garnet's home-made beer

Oh, Garnet Rogers cried the town

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

For twenty brave men, all masochists who

Would taste for him his home-made brew

This motley crew was a sickening sight

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags

He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags

Well we hadn't been there but an hour or two

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

When a voice said: Gimme some home-made brew

And Steeleye Stan hove into view

Now Steeleye Stan was a frightening man

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

He was eight feet tall and four feet wide

He said: Pass that jug or I'll tan your hide

Stan took one sip and pitched on his side

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

Garnet was smashed with a gut full of dregs

And his breath set fire to both me legs

So here I lay in me twenty-third beer

(How I wish I'd never tried it now)

It's been ten years since I felt this way

On the night before my wedding day

NOTES:

- Usually sung acapella

- From: rompub@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Gene Wilburn), 2 Aug 1994