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A jingle written in 1920 by Kenneth Lindsay, at that time an undergraduate but who became a barrister , a K.C. and the Labour MP for Kilmarnock – sung to the tune of “Clementine”

Down in Devon, down in Devon

There’s a village oh so dear

Sure it’s just a bit of heaven

And the angels call it Beer.

Mr. David, the schoolmaster

Is a Jack of every trade

Always shiny like the briny

Sticks to jobs like marmalade

The fishermen will kindly

Take you anywhere for a bob,

Except old (blank blank), their Charlie Chaplin

Who charges eighteen pence without a sob.

The present version was written in the late 1970s by Mike Green & Gayle Chapple

Coming up for a centenary!!!

“DOWN IN DEVON”

(Beer’s Anthem)

Sung to the tune of “Oh! My Darling Clementine”

Down in Devon, down in Devon,

There’s a village by the sea.

It’s a little piece of heaven

And the angels call it Beer

They call us Spaniards, they call us Dutchmen,

But we’re English evermore.

And we live here in God’s Country,

And we love our Devon shore

(Chorus - Down in Devon…)

I’ve been thinking, while I’ve been drinking,

‘Bout our haven by the sea.

In the whole of Devon county

Nowhere else I’d rather be … than …

(Chorus - Down in Devon…)

Written for one of the early Panto People pantomime productions