Talk:Charlie Mopps

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I know different words to this song. The version (which I learnt from a group called "Brewer's Dray", who were performing at the (first) national CAMRA beer festival at London's Covent Garden Flower Market in 1975) starts:

 A long time ago, way back in history,
 When all we had to drink was cups of Rosie Lee,
 Along came a fellow, by the name of Charlie Mopps -
 And he invented a wonderful drink which he made from malt and hops.

The chorus is:

 He should have been an admiral, a sultan or a king,
 And to his praises we will always sing.
 Look what he's done for us - he's filled us up with cheer;
 God Bless Charlie Mopps - the man who invented beer (beer, beer, beer ...)

THere were many more verses to this - and I won't attempt to quote them all here - but it just goes to show the variations which abound in folk misic and drinking songs! Note especially the possible London bias in this version: "Rosie Lee" is, of course, Cockney rhyming slang for tea.

There are other variations, I've heard "... and he made it out of hops" and "He ought to be an admiral, a sultan or a king".--RLent 04:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charlie who?

When is this drinking song from? I'm having a lot of difficulty finding anything that confirms more than marginal notability, let alone a reliable history. Could someone provide a serious, reliable source?

Peter ^Isotalo 08:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clancy Brothers Classic

I own The Clancy Brothers recording Irish Drinking Songs which contains this song. I've edited the entry to add this information (with a link to the allmusic entry) and tweak the lyrics a bit based on what I can hear listening to the song. I also moved the myspace reference to the bottom because it is somewhat irrelevant to the actual entry.
--Mjmadaio 03:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)