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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2974 Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: Sundays Song This song originated in 1957 entering the charts in the UK and Germany. It tells of the terrible calamity that befell the male residents of a small Australian town - a pub with no beer - which actually did happen during WWII. The poem was originally written by Dan Sheehan who emigrated from Ireland to NSW and then to Queensland, who rode his horse 20 miles to Ingham town to the Day Dawn Hotel for a beer. It was during the war when beer was rationed; he discovered that a group of American servicemen en route from Brisbane had drunk it all. He went to the back of the bar and wrote the poem which was published in the North Queensland Register. Years later Gordon Parsons adapted this poem and Slim Dusty had a hit song with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKPchRDaVM Pedro  | ||
