Pub With No Beer Varsovianna

X:41
T:Pub With No Beer Varsovianna
% NFF Book 2016
S:collected from the Nariel Band
S:collected by Peter Ellis, 1982
H:This tune appeared in a booklet prepared by Peter Ellis and others, for the Binalong,
H:NSW, Music Day, 10 Aug 1991.
H:"Music Makes Me Smile", p160, Pioneer Performer Series, contains a different B part, 
H:collected at a dance in Nariel, 1982. 
N:The original poem was written by Dan Sheehan in 1943, after staying at the Day Dawn 
N:Hotel, Ingham, North Queensland. Beer was rationed to Pubs during WWII and American 
N:servicemen had drunk the Day Dawn Hotel dry the previous night. The poem was rewritten
N:by Gordon Parsons in 1956 and presented to Slim Dusty who recorded it in 1957.
N:Slim Dusty appears to have based the tune on Stephen Foster's tune "Beautiful Dreamer", 
N:published in 1864. 
F:https://www.ozatwar.com/locations/apubwithnobeer.htm
R:Varsovienne
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:C
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Pub With No Beer Varsovianna - played by Greg O'Leary

Additional Information

Additional information may be available on the following people or organisations associated with the collection of this tune:
| Nariel Band | Peter Ellis |