The Tale of Ale: The Story of the Englishman and His Beer | Various Artists

Release year 1977

Tracklist

1

Bring Us in Good Ale

2

Andrew Boorde On Ale and Beer

3

Come Drink to Me

4

Jolly Good Ale and Old

5

He That Buys Land

6

The Merry Fellows

7

8

Tapster, Drinker

9

The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng

10

A Knotte of Good Fellows

11

Andrew Boorde On Beer

12

London’s Ordinary

13

Some Brewer’s and Drinker’s Epitaphs

14

Of Honest Malt Liquor

15

The Malt’s Come Down

16

Stubbes On Drunkenness

17

Good Ale for My Money

18

The Excise Ballad

19

The Porter Scene From Macbeth

20

Peas, Beans, Oats and the Barley

21

The Pleasant Ballad of John Barleycorn

22

Now Harvest Is Over

23

The British Toper

24

25

Bickerdyke On Temperance

26

O Ale Ab Alendo

27

John Barleycorn

28

Ye Mar’ners All

29

A Brewer’s Epitaph

30

Poor Tom Is Dead and Gone

31

There’s Comfort in a Drop of Gin

32

The London Gin Distillery

33

Don’t Go Out Tonight Dear Father

34

The Drunkard’s Looking Glass

35

Ale, Ale, Glorious Ale

36

I Likes a Drop of Good Beer

37

The Carter’s Health

38

Hey John Barleycorn

39

Here’s a Health to the Mistress

40

Meux’s Porter Vat

41

A Pot of Porter Oh

42

I’ve Been to France / Here’s a Health Unto Our Master

43

The Man That Waters the Worker’s Beer

44

45

46

47

48

This, Is Our Mistress’ Health

49

Michael Blann’s Drinking Song

50

The British Topper