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Ballad of the Horse Brass Pub

Words and music by Tom May

If you're ever in Portland with the old Hangtown blues
Your spirits as lowdown as a bum's pair of shoes,
Take the Morrison bridge, head up Belmont way
There's a horse with a collar on a sign that will say ...

(Chorus - repeats after each refrain)

Have a Grant's beer for me, at least two or three
Beneath the soccer flags waving from the ceiling above,
You're a stranger no more when you walk through that door
You've found what you're after at last ...
A drink and a smile at the old Horse Brass.

After one beer you'll find that the bartender's kind
But don't play him cribbage or darts all the same,
For you'll find that if you do that he's better than you
And you'll only have your bad luck and the good beer to blame.

From a ship at the pier came a sailor for beer
Birmingham seemed such a long ways away,
Then he walked in the Brass, sat and ordered a Bass
Now he's drinking there nightly 'til this very day.

Don is at the bar that Brian is behind
Marge serves the brew with some mischief in mind,
Howard moves his pegs, Mike smokes his pipe
Here at the Horse Brass it will be a good night.

Now I've traveled this country from pillar to post,
There's weak beer and strangers from coast to coast ...
But there's a bit of auld England, good friends to find
In the Oregon rain of old Portland town.

(Repeat chorus & add:)

A drink and a smile at the old Horse Brass,
A smile and a good friend at the old Horse Brass,
I've gotten in lots of trouble at the old Horse Brass!

The Ballad of the Horse Brass Pub

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