BREWUP
Welcome to the Loyal and Ancient Society known as
BREWUP ( or BREW UP ?)
Formed to celebrate the wonderful climate of the United Kingdom
Up with Britain's Excellent Weather
Let us begin by quoting our National Poet...Wordsworth ? ...McGonagall? ...Milton? ...Pam Ayres? ...Chaucer? ...Clive James? ...Tennyson? ...NO , RUDYARD KIPLING The fourth verse of
The Roman Centurion's Song
For me this land, that sea, these airs, those folk and fields suffice.
What purple Southern pomp can match our changeful Northern skies,
Black with December snows unshed or pearled with August haze
The clanging arch of steel-grey March, or June's long-lighted days.
Oh where is the Purcell ...the Elgar ...the Parry ...the Lennon ..the Lloyd Webber(??) to set such words to song!
What is the programme of action of BREWUP. That is for the membership to decide at its AGM.
STOP PRESS The membership has doubled in less than a week, from 1 to 2! I (or we) welcome D.O. who has taken a break from studying quaking Hawaii to submit a further celebration of the enlivening nature of the Atmosphere of Albion, to be sung dressed in Khaki shorts (at the most):
WOAD
The First appearance was in 1921 as a song in the Boy Scouts Gang Show.
What's the use of wearing braces?
Vests and pants and boots with laces?
Spats and hats you buy in places
Down the Brompton Road?
What's the use of shirts of cotton?
Studs that always get forgotten?
These affairs are simply rotten,
Better far is woad.
Woad's the stuff to show men.
Woad to scare your foemen.
Boil it to a brilliant hue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Briton ne'er did hit on
Anything as good as woad to fit on
Neck or knees or where you sit on.
Tailors you be blowed!!
Romans came across the channe
All dressed up in tin and flannel
Half a pint of woad per man'll
Dress us more than these.
Saxons you can waste your stitches
Building beds for bugs in britches
We have woad to clothe us which is
Not a nest for fleas
Romans keep your armours.
Saxons your pyjamas.
Hairy coats were made for goats,
Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas.
Tramp up Snowdon with your woad on,
Never mind if you get rained or blowed on
Never want a button sewed on.
Go it Ancient Bs!!
Copyright holders please contact us
However, as the quorum for motions to be passed is 4, the society remains otherwise inactive. If you would like to swell the membership by 33.3recurring%, please contact David Mitchell, at Scarthin Books, Cromford, Derbyshire DE4 3QF phone 01629-823272 fax 825094
e-mail us as clare@scarthinbooks.com
To quote
Spike Milligan,
It's all free, folks!
