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
B:Peter Ellis, "The Waltz, The Polka and All Kinds of Dance Music", 2007, p114
B:"Music Makes Me Smile", Peter Ellis & Harry Gardner (eds), Carrawobbity Press, 1998, p160
B:"Music Makes Me Smile", Peter Ellis & Harry Gardner (eds), 2nd edn, 2015, p186
H:This tune appeared in a booklet prepared by Peter Ellis and others, for the Binalong,
H:NSW, Music Day, 10 Aug 1991.
H:A different B part appears in both editions of "Music Makes Me Smile". 
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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|:"C"g>gg2f2|e>ee2d2|c>ce2g2|"Dm"a2z2g2|f>ff2e2|"G7"d>dd2c2|1B>BB2A2|"C"G2z2e>f:|2"G7"B>BA2B2|"C"c2z2||
P:An alternative Part B is used in both editions of "Music Makes me Smile"
|:"C"G>AG2F2 | E>FE2D2 | C>DE2C2 | "F"A2z2E2 | "G7"F>G F2E2 | D>ED2C2 |1 B,2B,2D2 | "C"G,4D2 :|2 B,2G,2B,2 | "C"C4|]
 

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 |