LLOYD GEORGE'S BEER
(R P Weston / Bert Lee 1915)

as recorded by Ernie Mayne
1917


We shall win the war,
We shall win the war,
As I've said before,
We shall win the war!
The Kaiser's in a dreadful fury,
Now he knows we're makin' it in every brewery!
Have you read of it,
Seen what's said of it
In the Mirror and the Mail?
It's a substitute
And a pubstitute,
And it's known as Goverment Ale, or otherwise -

Lloyd George's Beer,
Lloyd George's Beer!
At the brewery there's nothing doin',
All the waterworks are brewin'
Lloyd George's Beer,
It isn't dear!
Oh they say it's a terrible war, oh Lor'!
And there never was a war like this before,
But the worst thing that ever 'appened in this war
Is Lloyd George's Beer!

Buy a lot of it,
All they've got of it,
Dip your bread in it,
Shove your 'ead in it
From January till October,
And I bet a penny that you'll still be sober!
Get the froth of it,
Make your broth with it
With a pair of mutton chops.
Drown your dogs in it,
Drop some frogs in it,
Then you'll see some wonderful hops in that lovely stuff!

Lloyd George's Beer,
Lloyd George's Beer!
At the brewery there's nothing doin',
All the waterworks are brewin'
Lloyd George's Beer,
It isn't dear!
Said Haig to Joffre when affairs looked black,
"If you can't shift the beggars with your gas attack,
Get your squirters out and we'll squirt the devils back
With Llloyd George's Beer!"




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2017)