Save Our Ales (Alan Hull)  from: Buried Treasures Vol. 2
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1.)
From the Mersey to the Thames, from the Dee down to the Tyne,
	   G				 C
from the Highlands and the Lowlands and the towns.
	   Am		    D		     G
Through the misty halls of time there is always shone a sign
  	     G				   C
a blue star and a bottle of brown.
   Am		    D	      G


Chorus:
"Save Our Ales", that's what the people think,
  D			 G
it's been ours for centuries, it's what the people drink.
      C		      G  	    D
"Save Our Beers", that's what the people say,
  D			  G
it's been ours for centuries and here is where it stays.
      C		      G	  	  D		    G


2.)
From the magic Yorkshire Dales Mr. Theakston makes his ales,
	   G			      C			
and Robin Hood knew all about home brew.
     Am		     D		     G	
Well Metty Brown and John Peel know exactly how we feel,
      G				       C
when someone says we're taking it from you.
       Am		  D		G


Chorus:
"Save Our Ales", that's what the people think,
  D			 G
it's been ours for centuries, it's what the people drink.
      C		      G  	    D
"Save Our Beers", that's what the people say,
  D			  G
it's been ours for centuries and here is where it stays.
      C		      G	  	  D		    G

3.)
In Bonnie Scotland too folks have got their favourite brew,
     G				   C
William Younger and McEwans know the score.
	  Am	      D		      G
When someone comes along with a buck and a billabong
 	G			 C
shake their hands and show them the door.
  Am		       D    	      G


Chorus:
"Save Our Ales", that's what the people think,
  D			 G
it's been ours for centuries, it's what the people drink.
      C		      G  	    D
"Save Our Beers", that's what the people say,
  D			  G
it's been ours for centuries and here is where it stays.
      C		      G	  	  D		    G

Chorus:
"Save Our Ales", that's what the people think,
  D			 G
it's been ours for centuries, it's what the people drink.
      C		      G  	    D
"Save Our Beers", that's what the people say,
  D			  G
it's been ours for centuries and here is where it stays.
      C		      G	  	  D		    G


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Ale Crack: Is the spoken part (chat) on Buried Tresaures II, concerning
---------  that particular song. 

"I think it was one of those situations where the song was written,
the record was made the video was made and the records were pressed 
in about six days or something because it was an emergency situation."

"It's what protest songs are all about."

"Exactly, 'Save The Brewery'. It was done very quickly and it was good fun."

"And in the tradition of these things I wrote the words on the toilet."