Songs written for the celebration of Nick's life
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If There Is A Heaven, The Beer Will Be Free, by Bill Brown
The Contented Countryman, adapted by Jim Lewis
If There Is A Heaven, The Beer Will Be Free
©2007 Bill Brown
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free,
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free,
You can drink your pots and pints throughout eternity,
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free.
There'll be cask conditioned ale from Hook Norton Brewery
There'll be cask conditioned ale from Hook Norton Brewery
And a thousand other beer pumps each with barmaid standing ready
There'll be cask conditioned ale from Hook Norton Brewery
You can sit with all your cronies, with an angel on your knee
You can sit with all your cronies, with an angel on your knee
You can sing every song you know in perfect harmony
You can sit with all your cronies, with an angel on your knee
If you want a little dancing, a dance floor will appear,
If you want a little dancing, a dance floor will appear,
you can boogie, waltz, or polka, morris dance and ceilidh here,
If you want a little dancing, a dance floor will appear
There'll be Big Nick at the center with his concertin-i-a
There'll be Big Nick at the center with his concertin-i-a
He'll play his fav-or-ite tunes down the mill-enn-i-a
There'll be Big Nick at the center with his concertin-i-a
With a chair upon his left, and a chair upon his right,
With a chair upon his left, and a chair upon his right
He's saving those seats special for his darling son and bride,
With a chair upon his left, and a chair upon his right
He'll be greeting all his old friends as they float up through the cloud,
He'll be greeting all his old friends as they float up through the cloud,
He'll joke "You're just in time! It's your turn to buy a round!!"
He'll be greeting all his old friends as they float up through the cloud.
Big Nick was so full of life. Full as a pint of beer
Big Nick was so full of life. Full as a pint of beer
Savor every drop of it, as Nick did, while you're here,
Big Nick was so full of life. Full as a pint of beer
Sez Big Nick, "I love you all, I lift my glass to thee"
Sez Big Nick, "I love you all, I lift my glass to thee"
(slow)"Remember, deep inside you, you're just as big as me!"
Sez Big Nick, "I love you all, I lift my glass to thee"
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free,
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free,
You can drink your pots and pints throughout eternity,
Oh, if there is a heaven, the beer will be free
The Contented Countryman
(alternate: "I'm Up with the Sun in the Morning")
For Nick, an adaptation by Jim Lewis of a song of uncertain origin (although the earliest printed version is 1843), most commonly known as "I'm Out with my Gun in the Morning." This adaptation is based on an arrangement, in waltz time, by Keith Kendrick of Derbyshire, from his CD Me 'Umble Lot (Volume One Recordings, VOR 122).
Who would like a jovial country life
Happy am I with my home, son and wife
People may stare at my hard degree
They say I'm poor, but it just suits me
Chorus: With my wife, my son, my pipe, and my glass
Gaily along o' the road will I pass
Jolly and free, it will just suit me
I'm up with the sun in the morning
Who would lie in bed when the larks sing high
Or scorn a blue and a cloudless sky
Gay as the birds to the fields I go
Back I return when the sun sinks low
My dear little wife as she crosses the stile
She welcomes me home with a lovin' smile
No other woman would fairer be
For she is my own and she just suits me
My hansom young ladd, so cheerful and mild
He's brought me great joy since he was a child
And now he's a fine, decent man, you see
He'll make is own way, and he just suits me
Now the winter may come and the winds can blow
Safe at home from frost and snow
By my fire with my wife and my ladd I sing
I would not change for a crown-ed king
'Tis a true country life where many a man
Is dancin' at daybreak with hankies in hand
I'll galley and leap with capers so high
And I'll play the old tunes 'neath a brightening sky
Last Chorus: So, I like my bellows, my baldrics and bells
Squeezin' and singin', they suit me so well
With a pint of good beer and my friends so dear
I'll dance up the sun in the morning.
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